Default API Integration
API Integrations are used to access Opsgenie services, allowing you to integrate alerts, configure users, schedules, and teams on your Opsgenie account from external applications.
A Default API integration is provided in your account. This integration can be used for configuring users as well as alerts, however, we recommend adding a separate API Integration for each of your monitoring systems.
Purpose of Default API integration is to have control over default features like alerts created via Forwarding & Web UI.
Features
- Have all the features of API Integration.
- Alerts created via Web Application are processed by Default API, can be changed on "advanced" section, alerts can be modified or ignored.
- User actions acknowledge, close, and add note are processed by Default API, actions can be modified.
- Forwarding and other internal alerts are processed by Default API, alerts can be modified or ignored.
- Configuration objects can be read & write by using Default API.
Tags for Built-in Alerts
- Tags added so that builtin alerts can be modified or ignored from Default Api Integrations settings.
- Forwarding Rules: forwarding.
- Amazon CloudWatch Integration confirmation: CloudWatch, Confirmation.
- New Relic (Legacy) Integration confirmation: NewRelic, Confirmation.
Restrictions
- Default API integration name can not be changed.
- Default API integration can not be disabled & deleted.
Updated over 6 years ago