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NerdGraph tutorial: Alert notification channels

For New Relic alerting, you can manage your alert notification channels using our NerdGraph API. For how to manage applied intelligence notifications, see the NerdGraph tutorial on destinations.

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For how to get started with NerdGraph, see Introduction to NerdGraph.

Get notification channels

The notificationChannels query allows you to paginate through all of your alerting notification channels per account. You can also use the notificationChannel query to get a specific notification channel by its ID.

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Note that certain secret fields (for example, passwords or API keys) are obfuscated in the returned fields.

Create a notification channel

In order to create an alert notification channel, you need to know the specific type of notification channel you want to create (for example email, Slack, etc.), as well as the details necessary to configure it (which will depend on the channel type). Once a notification channel has been created, it can be associated with one or more alert policies. Once associated, those channels will receive notifications from those policies when conditions are breached.

Caution

While you can query for any existing notification channel type, you can only create a subset of them. Specifically, the user channel type has no editable fields, and the Campfire and HipChat channel types are both deprecated.

Update a notification channel

In order to update an alert notification channel, you need to know the specific type of notification channel you want to change (for example email, Slack, etc.), as well as the details necessary to configure it (which will depend on the channel type). Consistent with other GraphQL APIs, you can update a single field on the channel without knowing anything other than the channel's ID.

Caution

While you can query for any existing notification channel type, you can only update a subset of them. Specifically, the user channel type has no editable fields, and the Campfire and HipChat channel types are both deprecated.

Delete a notification channel

You can delete a notification channel with only the account ID and the channel ID. Note that deleting a channel dissociates it from all policies, meaning that no further notifications will be sent to that channel.

mutation {
alertsNotificationChannelDelete(
accountId: YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID
id: YOUR_CHANNEL_ID
) {
id
error {
description
errorType
notificationChannelId
}
}
}

Associate channels to a policy

Creating an alert notification channel is not enough: Once the channel has been created, it needs to be associated to one or more policies. Once associated to a policy, the channel can receive alert notifications when conditions on that policy exceed the threshold.

In this example, we associate two channels with a policy:

mutation {
alertsNotificationChannelsAddToPolicy(
accountId: YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID
notificationChannelIds: [FIRST_CHANNEL_ID, SECOND_CHANNEL_ID]
policyId: YOUR_POLICY_ID
) {
notificationChannels {
id
}
policyId
errors {
description
errorType
notificationChannelId
}
}
}

Dissociate a channel from a policy

In those instances where a notification channel has outlived its usefulness (for example, an email list that has been retired), the time has come to dissociate that channel from the policy (or policies) that are sending alert notifications to it. This API call leaves the channel itself intact, but removes it from the specified policy.

In this example, we are removing two channels from a policy (leaving any others in place), and getting back confirmation that those two channel IDs have been removed:

mutation {
alertsNotificationChannelsRemoveFromPolicy(
accountId: YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID
notificationChannelIds: [FIRST_CHANNEL_ID, SECOND_CHANNEL_ID]
policyId: YOUR_POLICY_ID
) {
notificationChannels {
id
}
policyId
errors {
description
errorType
notificationChannelId
}
}
}

Tip

Removing an alert notification channel from a policy does not delete the channel because it might be used by other policies. On the other hand, deleting a channel will cause all associated policies to stop sending alert notifications to that channel.

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