Get an alert policy | New Relic Documentation

The action identifier is newrelic.alerts.getPolicy.

Retrieves the details of a single alert policy.

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 retrieve.	`"2000002"`
selectors	List	Optional. JQ selectors to extract values from the response.	`selectors: - name: policyName expression: ".data.actor.account.alerts.policy.name"`

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 fields from `.data.actor.account.alerts.policy`. `{ "data": { "actor": { "account": { "alerts": { "policy": { "id": "2000002", "name": "Production Services", "incidentPreference": "PER_CONDITION", "accountId": 123456, "entityGuid": "MjAwMDAwMnxBTEVSVFN8UE9MSUNZfDIwMDAwMDI" } } } } } }`

The following example fetches a policy's current name before deciding whether to update it.

Workflow example
`name: get_alert_policy description: Get an alert policy steps: - name: getPolicy type: action action: newrelic.alerts.getPolicy version: 1 inputs: accountId: ${{ .workflowInputs.accountId }} id: ${{ .workflowInputs.policyId }} selectors: - name: policyName expression: ".data.actor.account.alerts.policy.name" next: end`

Workflow example

name: get_alert_policy
description: Get an alert policy
steps:
  - name: getPolicy
    type: action
    action: newrelic.alerts.getPolicy
    version: 1
    inputs:
      accountId: ${{ .workflowInputs.accountId }}
      id: ${{ .workflowInputs.policyId }}
      selectors:
        - name: policyName
          expression: ".data.actor.account.alerts.policy.name"
    next: end