alerta-blackout-regex 1.0.5

Alerta Blackout enhancement plugin

Alerta plugin to enhance the blackout management, by matching the alerts against blackouts with PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) on attributes.

A blackout is considered matched when all its attributes are matched.

Once an alert is identified as matching a blackout, a special label is applied, with the format: regex_blackout=<blackout id>, where blackout id is the ID of the matched blackout, e.g., regex_blackout=d8ba1d3b-dbfd-4677-ab00-e7f8469d7ad3. This way, when the alert is fired again, there’s no need to verify the matching again, but simply verify whether the blackout referenced is still active.

Note

This shouldn’t normally affect the existing blackouts you may have in place, as the regex matching should only kick in after the native blackout matching mechanism in Alerta.

Installation

This plugin is designed to be installed on the Alerta server; the package is available on PyPI so you can install as:

pip install alerta-blackout-regex

Configuration

Add blackout_regex to the list of enabled PLUGINS in alertad.conf server configuration file and set plugin-specific variables either in the server configuration file or as environment variables.

PLUGINS = ['blackout_regex']

References

• Suppressing Alerts using Blackouts

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Mircea Ulinic. Available under the Apache License 2.0.