GitHub Inbound Issue Integration

Create alerts in ilert based on issues from GitHub repositories.

With the ilert Github Issue integration, you can create alerts in ilert based on repository issues from Github.

In ilert: Create a Github alert source

Go to Alert sources --> Alert sources and click on Create new alert source
Search for GitHub in the search field, click on the GitHub tile and click on Next.
Give your alert source a name, optionally assign teams and click Next.
Select an escalation policy by creating a new one or assigning an existing one.
Select you Alert grouping preference and click Continue setup. You may click Do not group alerts for now and change it later.
The next page show additional settings such as customer alert templates or notification prioritiy. Click on Finish setup for now.
On the final page, an API key and / or webhook URL will be generated that you will need later in this guide.
Customize the GitHub alert source with advanced settings for a better user experience.

Go to your Github repository and then to Settings --> Webhooks and click on Add webhook to add a new webhook (https://github.com/<org>/<repo>/settings/hooks)

In the Payload URL section, set the Webhook URL that you generated in ilert
In the Content type section, set the application/json

In the Which events would you like to trigger this webhook? section, change it to Let me select individual events and select the Check runs events