HashiCorp Consul
Create ilert alerts from HashiCorp Consul Health Check events and get alerted through ilert for high priority issues.
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Create ilert alerts from HashiCorp Consul Health Check events and get alerted through ilert for high priority issues.
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HashiCorp Consul is a service mesh solution providing a full featured control plane with service discovery, configuration, and segmentation functionality. This integration creates based on Consul health checks.
Go to Alert sources --> Alert sources and click on Create new alert source
Search for HashiCorp Consul in the search field, click on the HashiCorp Consul 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.
Install Consul-Alerts as per the guide at https://github.com/iLert/consul-alerts/blob/master/README.md
Once the Consul-Alerts are running, we can set the ilert integration key using curl.
Enable ilert notifications in Consul-Alerts.
(Optional) Generating a test alert by having a health check fail to confirm the integration is working.
Will alerts in ilert be resolved automatically?
Yes, Consul-Alerts will resolve the ilert alert once health checks are passing.
Will alerts in ilert be accepted automatically?
No, unfortunately Consul events are not compatible with ilert accept events.
Can I connect Consul Server with multiple alert sources from ilert?
No, Consul-Alerts only supports sending alerts to a single alert source.
