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Lewis_Beard
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10 months ago

Can the API get the alert rule associated to a datapoint on a DS instance?

I have been hunting through the swagger docs, and I can’t seem to find a way to get the alert rule or alert routing being applied to a specific datapoint on a specific datasource instance. I’ve looke...
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    mray
    10 months ago

    If you want to use the API, you technically can see the routing but the endpoint is not supported and listed. I can’t speak on how reliable it is…

    You call /alertsettings/{datapointID}/recipients

    But with all that said, you can also just run an Alert Threshold report. You can even run it with ‘Only show custom thresholds’ enabled. 

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Anonymous
10 months ago

Hey @Lewis Beard 

So, the endpoint that @Michael Raymond had mentioned is an unsupported endpoint.  That is what this disclaimer was in his post:

If you want to use the API, you technically can see the routing but the endpoint is not supported and listed. I can’t speak on how reliable it is…

There are many endpoints that we don’t expose via Swagger as they are typically used for internal communication.  However, as long as the endpoint is a v3 UI endpoint it should work from an external API call.  With these endpoints, we can and do change them from time to time with no warning, that is why it’s unpublished.  I would definitely recommend submitted feedback for your use case on that endpoint and our product team can consider it for adding into being a supported endpoint. 

The large number of unsupported endpoints needs a better reason from the LM management than, “we don’t think anybody wants to use it but us and we might change them”. Does LM have any endpoints currently in the support/release pipeline? It’s been my experience that you’re just SOL if your endpoint isn’t published.

That said, I’ve used many of the unpublished endpoints to great success. The v2 ones will never change, only get decommissioned. I haven’t had a v3 one change on me ever.