PDH - PagerDuty CLI for humans

PDH is a new lightweight CLI for pagerduty interaction: uou can handle your incidents triage without leaving your terminal. It also add some nice tricks to automate the incident triage and easy the on-call burden.

See docs (TBD)

Install

Nix

If you are using cachix you can use the prebuilt packages:

cachix use pdh

nix shell github:mbovo/pdh

Arch linux

yay -S pdh

With docker

docker run -ti -v ~/.config/pdh.yaml:/root/.config/pdh.yaml --rm pdh:0.3.10 inc ls

With pip

pip install pdh>=0.3.10

From source with nix and direnv

git clone https://github.com/mbovo/pdh
direnv allow pdh
cd pdh
pdh inc ls -e

From source with devbox

git clone https://github.com/mbovo/pdh
direnv allow pdh
cd pdh
pdh inc ls -e

From source

git clone https://github.com/mbovo/pdh
cd pdh
task setup
source .venv/bin/activate
pdh inc ls -e

Usage

First of all you need to configure pdh to talk with PagerDuty's APIs:

pdh config

The wizard will prompt you for 3 settings:

• apikey is the API key, you can generate it from the user's profile page on pagerduty website
• email the email address of your pagerduty profile
• uid the userID of your account (you can read it from the browser address bar when clicking on "My Profile")

Settings are persisted to ~/.config/pdh.yaml in clear.

Listing incidents

Assigned to self:

pdh inc ls

Any other incident currently outstanding:

pdh inc ls -e

Listing incident by team

Listing only outstanding alerts only if they are assigned to a specific team:

pdh inc ls -e --teams mine

Search for a given team id:

pdh teams ls

Use specific id (list):

pdh inc ls -e --team-id "P1LONJG,P4SEF5R"

Sorting incident by field

pdh inc ls --sort assignee --reverse

In case the field is not found the cli will notice you and print the list of available fields

 pdh inc ls -e --sort unkn --reverse
Invalid sort field: unkn
Available fields: id, assignee, title, status, created_at, last_status_change_at, url

You can always sort by multiple fields using comma as separator:

pdh inc ls --sort assignee,status

Auto ACK incoming incidents

Watch for new incidents every 10s and automatically set them to Acknowledged

pdh inc ls --watch --new --ack --timeout 10

List all HIGH priority incidents periodically

List incidents assigned to all users every 5s

pdh inc ls --high --everything --watch --timeout 5

Resolve specific incidents

pdh inc resolve INCID0001 INCID0024 INCID0023

Resolve all incidents related to Backups

pdh inc ls --resolve --regexp ".*Backup.*"

Extract custom fields

You can also extract custom fields from the pagerduty json output:

You can nested fields using dot notation (i.e service.summary)

pdh inc ls -e --fields service.summary,status,title,assignee,created_at,url

To understand the available fields you can get the raw json output and inspect it:

pdh inc ls -e -o raw

Rules

PDH support custom scripting applied to your incidents list. These rules are in fact any type of executable you can run on your machine.

pdh inc ls -e --rules-path ./rules/ --rules

The apply subcommand will call the listed executable/script passing along a json to stdin with the incident information. The called script can apply any type of checks/sideffects and output another json to stout to answer the call.

Even though rules can be written in any language it's very straightforward using python:

Rules: an example

An example rule can be written in python with the following lines

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from pdh.rules import rule

@rule
def main(alerts, pagerduty, Filters, Transformations):

    # From the given input extract only incidents with the word "EC2" in title
    filtered = Filters.apply(alerts, filters=[
                    Filters.not_regexp("service.summary", ".*My Service.*"),
                    Filters.regexp("title", ".*EC2.*")
                ])

    # # auto acknowledge all previously filtered incidents
    pagerduty.incidents.ack(filtered)

    return filtered

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()                  # type: ignore

 pdh inc ls -e --rules-path ./rules/ --rules
┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ script ┃ Q1LNI5LNM7RZ2C                                                     ┃ Q1C5KG41H0SZAM                                                                       ┃
┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ ./a.py │  AWS Health Event: us-east-1 EC2 : AWS_EC2_INSTANCE_STOP_SCHEDULED │  AWS Health Event: us-east-1 EC2 : AWS_EC2_INSTANCE_STORE_DRIVE_PERFORMANCE_DEGRADED │
└────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The default output is table with one line for each script run and with one column per each element in the returned object

Rules: more examples

see rules for more

Requirements

• Taskfile
• Python >=3.10
• Docker

Contributing

First of all you need to setup the dev environment, using Taskfile:

task setup

This will create a python virtualenv and install pre-commit and poetry in your system if you lack them.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See for more details.