API Fortress Integration

API Fortress offers continuous API testing and monitoring that unifies functional, integration, and load testing across internal, partner, and third party APIs.

In ilert: Create an API Fortress alert source

  1. Go to Alert sources --> Alert sources and click on Create new alert source

  2. Search for API Fortress in the search field, click on the API Fortress tile and click on Next.

  3. Give your alert source a name, optionally assign teams and click Next.

  4. Select an escalation policy by creating a new one or assigning an existing one.

  5. Select you Alert grouping preference and click Continue setup. You may click Do not group alerts for now and change it later.

  6. The next page show additional settings such as customer alert templates or notification prioritiy. Click on Finish setup for now.

  7. On the final page, an API key and / or webhook URL will be generated that you will need later in this guide.​

In API Fortress

  1. Click the gear icon in the top right corner to access the settings menu

  1. Navigate to "Alert groups" and create a new alert group if no Alert Group exists yet

  1. Click "Socket icon" -> "+ Connector to this group"

  1. Select "JSON Alert" or "JSON Alert /w threshold", in this case we chose "JSON Alert /w threshold"

  1. Put the URL Settings based on the API Fortress URL that we've got earlier in ilert Dashboard

More Details for "JSON Alert /w threshold" configs

URL: Webhook URL

Counter: Number of error before the alert is sent out

TTL: Time window in seconds before the alert is sent out (Ex. 2 errors counter over a time window of 60sec - 1 Minute)

  1. Save the Config and go back to main dashboard

  1. Click "Settings" on the project and assign the alert group

  2. Upon meeting the alert criteria, JSON payload will be sent to the webhook URL, and Incident will be created in ilert

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