Create a VictorOps notifier

To create a VictorOps notifier, create an API key in VictorOps and then create a VictorOps notifier in Chronosphere.

Create a service API key in VictorOps

Before creating a VictorOps notifier in Chronosphere, enable the Prometheus integration in VictorOps and create a service API key. See the REST endpoint integration guide (opens in a new tab) in the VictorOps documentation for more information.

To configure a VictorOps notifier:

  1. In VictorOps, click the Integrations tab.
  2. Search for Prometheus, and then click Enable Integration.
  3. Copy the Service API Key value.
  4. Open the pre-configured REST integration, and copy the URL to notify value.
  5. In the navigation menu select Settings > Routing Keys and review your routing keys. If you have any routing keys defined, copy the appropriate value for the team you want to route this notifier to.

Create a VictorOps notifier in Chronosphere

After creating a service API key in VictorOps, you can create a VictorOps notifier in Chronosphere.

To create a VictorOps notifier:

  1. In the navigation menu select Alerts > Notifiers.

  2. Click Create Notifier.

  3. Enter a descriptive name for the notifier.

  4. Select VictorOps as the type of notifier you want to create.

  5. In the API Key field, enter the value of your VictorOps API key.

  6. In the API URL field, enter the URL to notify value you copied from VictorOps, which is called as a POST request. For example:

    https://alert.victorops.com/integrations/generic/20131114/alert/
  7. In the Routing Key field, enter the routing key you copied from VictorOps.

  8. Click Save.