Update an alert policy | New Relic Documentation

The action identifier is newrelic.alerts.updatePolicy.

Updates an existing alert policy. You can change the policy name, incident preference, or both. Omitting a field leaves it unchanged.

The following table describes all available input fields for this action.

Input	Type	Description	Example
accountId	Int	Required. The New Relic account that owns the policy.	`123456`
id	String	Required. The ID of the policy to update.	`"2000002"`
name	String	Optional. New name for the policy. Omit to leave unchanged.	`"Production Services - Updated"`
incidentPreference	String	Optional. New incident preference. Omit to leave unchanged. One of `PER_CONDITION`, `PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET`, or `PER_POLICY`.	`"PER_POLICY"`
selectors	List	Optional. JQ selectors to extract values from the response.	`selectors: - name: policyId expression: ".data.alertsPolicyUpdate.id"`

The following table describes all output fields returned by this action.

Output	Type	Description
success	Boolean	`true` when the step executed without error.
errorMessage	String	Error message on failure. `null` on success.
data	Map	NerdGraph response. Use `selectors` to extract `id`, `name`, `incidentPreference`, `accountId`, or `entityGuid` from `data`. `{ "data": { "alertsPolicyUpdate": { "id": "2000002", "name": "Production Services - Updated", "incidentPreference": "PER_POLICY", "accountId": 123456, "entityGuid": "MTIzNDU2fEFJT1BTfE9QVFxfUE9MSUNZfDc4OTA=" } } }`

The following example renames an alert policy.

Workflow example
`name: update_alert_policy description: Rename an alert policy steps: - name: updatePolicy type: action action: newrelic.alerts.updatePolicy version: 1 inputs: accountId: ${{ .workflowInputs.accountId }} id: ${{ .workflowInputs.policyId }} name: "Production Services - Updated" next: end`

Workflow example

name: update_alert_policy
description: Rename an alert policy
steps:
  - name: updatePolicy
    type: action
    action: newrelic.alerts.updatePolicy
    version: 1
    inputs:
      accountId: ${{ .workflowInputs.accountId }}
      id: ${{ .workflowInputs.policyId }}
      name: "Production Services - Updated"
    next: end