PowerShell to Get Alerts through API with ticketid

Same here in Python, Insomnia (poor mans Postman) and PowerShell.

So it does look like I was only able to get the ticketid to come back in a single query pull was when it was connecting through v1.

The Python example and a similar one for PowerShell that I found were utilizing v1 to get the data.

Thanks. 

Use APIv3. v1 and v2 will get cut off at some point and you don’t want to have to rebuild it.

If you can’t get something to work in powershell, take your code out of the equation by issuing the call in a rest client like postman.

I tried this in v3 and it doesn’t work, even in postman. This means it’s not a powershell issue, but probably that they changed the way to get at the externalticketid in v2 and v3 of the api and didn’t update their documentation/examples from the v1 stuff. I would recommend you reach out to support. Let them know you attempted the documented solution and what might be wrong with your syntax. When you find out what the issue is, ask them to submit a doc ticket to have the documentation updated (and let us know here).

Ok, I’ve attempted to replicate that and it doesn’t work in v2 or v3, in postman, unless i’m doing something wrong. So, i suspect a problem with the API and not not necessarily your code.

Due to performance issue, we removed customColumn request parameter from GET /alert/alerts/{id} and GET /alert/alerts

I have opened a support ticket about how to do this in PowerShell.  And the ##externalticketid## field is something that does work in API v2 in Python; just does not seem to work the same way in PowerShell.

Hopefully support will be able to provide an PowerShell example.

Hm, if it’s working in python, what’s the URL and headers that are getting sent (minus authentication header)? If it works in python, that means it should work in postman, which means it should work in powershell. We just gotta get the queryParams right. Do you have working code for python?

If it works in python and not powershell, this normally goes down to url encoding. Some python libraries auto url encode. So most likely your params are invalid due to lack of encoding.

Yeah, but i can’t get it to work in postman either, so i’m questioning if it actually works in python or if we’re relying on the documentation that claims that it works or if Jeff has it working in a python script. If so, i’d like to see what the query params are in python so i can replicate in postman. Postman has autocode generation. Pick the language and it’ll write a simple script to do your api call, showing what the syntax should be for the query params.