Create an alert policy | New Relic Documentation

The action identifier is newrelic.alerts.createPolicy.

Creates a new alert policy. A policy groups related alert conditions and controls how violations create incidents.

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

Input	Type	Description	Example
accountId	Int	Required. The New Relic account in which to create the policy. Must be a positive integer.	`123456`
name	String	Required. The name of the policy.	`"Production Services"`
incidentPreference	String	Required. Determines how incidents are created for violations. One of `PER_CONDITION` (one issue per condition), `PER_CONDITION_AND_TARGET` (one issue per condition per signal), or `PER_POLICY` (one issue per policy).	`"PER_CONDITION"`
selectors	List	Optional. JQ selectors to extract values from the response.	`selectors: - name: policyId expression: ".data.alertsPolicyCreate.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": { "alertsPolicyCreate": { "id": "2000002", "name": "Production Services", "incidentPreference": "PER_CONDITION", "accountId": 123456, "entityGuid": "MTIzNDU2fEFJT1BTfE9QVFxfUE9MSUNZfDc4OTA=" } } }`

The following example creates an alert policy and captures the new policy ID for use in subsequent steps.

Workflow example
`name: create_alert_policy description: Create an alert policy steps: - name: createPolicy type: action action: newrelic.alerts.createPolicy version: 1 inputs: accountId: ${{ .workflowInputs.accountId }} name: "Production Services" incidentPreference: "PER_CONDITION" selectors: - name: policyId expression: ".data.alertsPolicyCreate.id" next: end`

Workflow example

name: create_alert_policy
description: Create an alert policy
steps:
  - name: createPolicy
    type: action
    action: newrelic.alerts.createPolicy
    version: 1
    inputs:
      accountId: ${{ .workflowInputs.accountId }}
      name: "Production Services"
      incidentPreference: "PER_CONDITION"
      selectors:
        - name: policyId
          expression: ".data.alertsPolicyCreate.id"
    next: end