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If using the EU instance of Opsgenie, the URL needs to be https://api.eu.opsgenie.com for requests to be successful.

Create Incident Rule

Create incident rule request is used to add new incident rules for services and it is a write request. If the integration of the API key configured as read-only, the request will not be accepted. For more information, you can refer to API Access Management.

HTTP Method	URL
POST	https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/:serviceId/incident-rules

Field	Mandatory	Description	Limit
serviceId	true	Id of the service on which incident rule will be created.	130 characters
incidentRule	true	Rule to be added. For more information about Incident Rule object click here.

Sample Requests

curl -X POST 'https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/6980c9d2-45ad-4458-9a72-127b87ef881d/incident-rules'
    -H 'Authorization: GenieKey eb24alp-faa2-4ba2-a551q-1alpf565c889'
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
    -d
'{
    "conditionMatchType": "match-all-conditions",
    "conditions": [{
        "expectedValue": "Incident",
        "operation": "contains",
        "not": false,
        "field": "message"
    }],
    "incidentProperties": {
        "message": "Incident Message",
        "description": "Incident Description",
        "tags": ["Tag1", "Tag2"],
        "priority": "P4",
        "stakeholderProperties": {
            "enable": true,
            "message": "Stakeholder Message",
            "description": "Stakeholder Description"
        }
    }
}'

Response:

{
  "data": {
    "id": "b1afd949-f051-48cd-ab67-8cf34f966a57"
  },
  "requestId": "c93ff1c2-e19f-11e7-a9ed-99cc1aa8489f"
}

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Please remind that team can contain up to 100 incident rules.

Update Incident Rule

Update incident rule request is used to update existing rules on existing services for teams and it is a write request. If the integration of the API key configured as read-only, the request will not be accepted. For more information, you can refer to API Access Management.

HTTP Method	URL
PUT	https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/:serviceId/incident-rules/:incidentRuleId

Field	Mandatory	Description	Limit
serviceId	true	Id of the service on which incident rule will be created.	130 characters
incidentRuleId	true	Id of the incident rule to be updated.	130 characters
incidentRule	true	Rule to be updated.For more information about Incident Rule object click here

Sample Requests

curl -X PUT 'https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/6980c9d2-45ad-4458-9a72-127b87ef881d/incident-rules/6980c9d1-45ad-4458-9a72-127b87ef881d'
    -H 'Authorization: GenieKey eb24alp-faa2-4ba2-a551q-1alpf565c889'
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
    -d
'{
    "conditionMatchType": "match-any-condition",
    "conditions": [{
        "expectedValue": "Incident",
        "operation": "contains",
        "not": false,
        "field": "message"
    }, {
        "expectedValue": "P1",
        "operation": "equals",
        "not": false,
        "field": "priority"
    }],
    "incidentProperties": {
        "message": "Incident Message - Updated",
        "description": "Incident Description",
        "tags": ["Tag1"],
        "priority": "P5",
        "stakeholderProperties": {
            "enable": true,
            "message": "Stakeholder Message",
            "description": "Stakeholder Description"
        }
    }
}'

Response:

{
  "result": "Updated",
  "data": {
    "id": "6980c9d1-45ad-4458-9a72-127b87ef881d"
  },
  "requestId": "c93ff1c2-e19f-11e7-a9ed-99cc1aa8489f"
}

Delete Incident Rule

Delete incident rule request is used to delete existing rules on existing services for teams and it is a write request. If the integration of the API key configured as read-only, the request will not be accepted. For more information, you can refer to API Access Management.

HTTP Method	URL
DELETE	https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/:serviceId/incident-rules/:incidentRuleId

Field	Mandatory	Description	Limit
serviceId	true	Id of the service on which incident rule will be created.	130 characters
incidentRuleId	true	Rule id to be deleted.	130 characters

Sample Requests

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/6980c9d2-45ad-4458-9a72-127b87ef881d/incident-rules/123123-1231-121ba'
    -H 'Authorization: GenieKey eb24alp-faa2-4ba2-a551q-1alpf565c889'
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

Response:

{
  "result": "Deleted",
  "requestId": "c93ff1c2-e19f-11e7-a9ed-99cc1aa8489f"
}

Get Incident Rules

Get incident rules request is used to retrieve a given service's incident rules

HTTP Method	URL
GET	https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/:serviceId/incident-rules

Field	Mandatory	Description	Limit
serviceId	true	Id of the service from which incident rule will be retrieved.	130 characters

Request

curl -X GET 'https://api.opsgenie.com/v1/services/12/incident-rules'
    -H 'Authorization: GenieKey eb24alp-faa2-4ba2-a551q-1alpf565c889'
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json'

Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "dfa45b69-0ff3-4948-94b0-ec4a33c98d2f",
      "order": 1,
      "conditionMatchType": "match-any-condition",
      "conditions": [
        {
          "field": "message",
          "not": false,
          "expectedValue": "Incident",
          "operation": "contains"
        },
        {
          "field": "priority",
          "not": false,
          "expectedValue": "P1",
          "operation": "equals"
        }
      ],
      "incidentProperties": {
        "message": "Incident Message",
        "tags": [
          "Tag1"
        ],
        "description": "Incident Description",
        "details": {},
        "priority": "P5",
        "stakeholderProperties": {
          "enable": true,
          "message": "Stakeholder Message",
          "description": "Stakeholder Description"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "c93ff1c2-e19f-11e7-a9ed-99cc1aa8489f"
}

Incident Rule Fields

Field	Mandatory	Description
conditions	Mandatory if conditionMatchType is not match-all	For more information about conditions object click here.
conditionMatchType	false	Match type for given conditions. Possible values are [match-all, match-any-condition, match-all-conditions]. Default value is [match -all].
incidentProperties	true	For more information about conditions object click here.

Incident Properties Fields

Field	Mandatory	Description	Limit
message	true	Message of the related incident rule.	130 characters
tags	false	Tags of the alert.	20 x 50 characters
details	false	Map of key-value pairs to use as custom properties of the alert.	8000 characters
description	false	Description field of the incident rule.	10000 characters
priority	true	Priority level of the alert. Possible values are P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5
stakeholderProperties	true	For more information about conditions object click here.

Stakeholder Properties Fields

Field	Mandatory	Description	Limit
enable	false	Option to enable stakeholder notifications.Default value is true.
message	true	Message that is to be passed to audience that is generally used to provide a content information about the alert.
description	false	Description that is generally used to provide a detailed information about the alert.	15000 characters

Condition Fields

Field	Mandatory	Description	Limit
field	true	Specifies which alert field will be used in condition. Possible values are message, description, tags, extra-properties, recipients, teams or priority	130 characters
not	false	Indicates behaviour of the given operation. Default value is false.	512 characters
expectedValue	false	User defined value that will be compared with alert field according to the operation. Default value is empty string.	15000 characters
operation	false	It is the operation that will be executed for the given field and key. Possible operations are matches, contains, starts-with, ends-with, equals, contains-key, contains-value, greater-than, less-than, is-empty and equals-ignore-whitespace. Available operations changes according to the fields type: String Operations: `contains`, `equals`, `starts-with`, `ends-with`, `matches`, `is-empty`, `equals-ignore-whitespace` List Operations: `contains`, `is-empty` Map Operations: `contains`, `contains-key`, `contains-value`, `is-empty` Number Operations: `matches`, `equals`, `greater-than`, `less-than` Boolean Operations: `equals`

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Service Incident Rules API

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Create Incident Rule

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Update Incident Rule

Delete Incident Rule

Get Incident Rules

Incident Rule Fields

Incident Properties Fields

Stakeholder Properties Fields

Condition Fields

Service Incident Rules API

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