alerta_alerta-contrib/integrations/consul/README.md

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Consul Integration
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Send alerts based on [consul](https://www.consul.io/). health checks,
triggered by [consul-alerts](https://github.com/AcalephStorage/consul-alerts)
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Prerequisites
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Consul and [consul-alerts](https://github.com/AcalephStorage/consul-alerts)
is installed and running.
Installation
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$ pip install python-consul alerta --upgrade
copy script to somewhere accessible by consul-alerts, make sure its executable
Clone the GitHub repo and run:
$ python setup.py install
Or, to install remotely from GitHub run:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/alerta/alerta-contrib.git#subdirectory=integrations/consul
Configuration
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Define these keys in consul KV store:
consul-alerts/config/notifiers/custom/alerta:<path>/consul-alerta.py
alerta/apikey:'api-key' // alerta key for api access (MUST)
alerta/apiurl:'api-url' // alerta api url (MUST)
alerta/timeout:900 // alarm timeout in alerta (default 900)
alerta/max_retries:3 // max api call attemps (default 3)
alerta/sleep:2 // sleep between attemps (default 2)
alerta/origin:consul // alert origin (default consul)
alerta/defaultenv:Production // default alert environment (optional - default Production)
alerta/env/{hostname}:Testing // exceptions for env of specific nodes (optional)
alerta/alerttype:ConsulAlerts // alert type (default ConsulAlerts)
consul-alerts/config/notif-profiles/default: { "Interval": 10 } // will keep active alerts "open" in alerta, before timeout removes them (must)
References
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* https://www.consul.io/
* https://github.com/hashicorp/consul
* https://github.com/AcalephStorage/consul-alerts
License
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Copyright (c) 2016 Marco Supino. Available under the MIT License.