Add support to synthetic alert creation using JSON payload (parameter --from-json)

[DenisMedeiros]

Hi team,

Is it possible to add the feature to allow the creation of alerts using a JSON file, similar to how we can do to create tests?

For example, the command below works:

synctl create test --type 0 --from-json monitor.json

Where my monitor.json is defined as below (this JSON content was exported by running synctl get test <id> --show-json):

{
  "label": "endpoint",
  "description": "Test",
  "active": true,
  "testFrequency": 5,
  "playbackMode": "Simultaneous",
  "locations": [
    "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
  ],
  "locationLabels": [
    "example"
  ],
  "locationDisplayLabels": [
    "us-east-1(NVirginia)"
  ],
  "configuration": {
    "syntheticType": "HTTPAction",
    "markSyntheticCall": true,
    "retries": 0,
    "retryInterval": 1,
    "timeout": "30s",
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "operation": "GET",
    "body": "",
    "validationString": "",
    "followRedirect": true,
    "allowInsecure": true
  },
  "customProperties": {}
}

We would like to run something like synctl create alert --from-json alert.json (we already can export the alert JSON representation using synctl get alert <id> --show-json).

Thanks!

[swethalohith2]

Hi Denis,
this feature has been added to the tool. Please upgrade to the latest version, and you can use the command synctl create alert --from-json alert.json to create an alert.

[rongzhus]

Added since version v1.1.3, and use -f instead of --from-json from v2.0.0.