Create an alert notification template

You can create a notification template to quickly set alert rules for business targets in batches.

Procedure

1. Log in to the OceanBase Cloud console.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Alerts.

3. On the Alert Management page, click More, and then click Notification templates.

4. On the Notification templates tab, click Create notification template.

5. Configure the following template rules and click Create.

   Notice

   For security reasons, the alert notification template content must contain the keyword OBCloud or OceanBase.

   Parameter	Description
   Template Name	The name of the alert notification template.
   Notification Method	The method to send alert notifications. Different notification methods support different notification formats. Email: Specify the title and content of the alert notification template. DingTalk: Specify the title and content of the alert notification template. Lark: Text format. Specify the content of the alert notification template. Telegram: Text format. Specify the content of the alert notification template. Custom URL: The default template is in JSON format. You can modify the template to support the format specified by the custom URL. For more information, see the Custom URL Format Example section.
   Alert Type	Select Instance or Tenant.
   Notification Effective Period	The start and end times of the effective period must be on the same day and the start time must be earlier than the end time. If you do not specify the effective period, the alert rule takes effect 24 hours a day.
   Alert Notification Template Title	The title displayed in alert notifications. You can use the ${alertName} format to input variables, where alertName represents the alert name. Note The maximum length is 50 characters, which also applies to the parsed content of the input variables. Excess characters will be truncated.
   Alert Notification Template Content	The content displayed in an alert notification. You can preview and test the sending of the content on the right. You can enter variables in the format of ${alertName}, where alertName represents the name of the alert. For more information about the supported variables, see Alert variables. Note The maximum length is 500 characters, which also applies to the parsed content of the input variables. Excess characters will be truncated.
   Alert Resolution Notification Template Title	The title displayed in alert resolution notifications. You can use the ${alertName} format to input variables, where alertName represents the alert name. Note The maximum length is 50 characters, which also applies to the parsed content of the input variables. Excess characters will be truncated.
   Alert Resolution Notification Template Content	The content displayed in the alert resolution notification. You can preview and test the sending of the content on the right. You can enter variables in the format of ${alertName}, where alertName represents the name of the alert. For more information about the supported variables, see Alert variables. Note The maximum length is 500 characters, which also applies to the parsed content of the input variables. Excess characters will be truncated.

6. After the alert rule is created, you can view and manage it in the list.

Alert variables

The following variables are supported in alert notifications:

Example of a custom URL

For information about how to obtain the Webhook address of a DingTalk bot, a Lark bot, or a Telegram bot, see Obtain a webhook URL.

The following example shows how to call the DingTalk bot interface:

curl 'https://oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send?access_token=********' \
  -X 'POST' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8' \
  --data '{"msgtype": "text", "text": {"content": "OceanBase Test"} }' \
  --compressed

In the alert rule and notification template configuration, you need to enter the following information:

• The custom URL is in the following format:

  https://oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send?access_token=********
  

• The alert notification template content is in the following format:

  {
     "msgtype": "text",
     "text": {
        "content": "
        Dear ${userName},
        Hello!
  
        Your OBCloud database ${AlertTarget} has triggered a ${MetricNames} (${AlertLevel}) alert at ${AlertStartTime}. Please pay attention to and handle the alert in a timely manner.
        Alert name: ${AlertName}
        Alert summary: ${AlertSummary}
        Alert description: ${AlertDescription}
        Related metrics: ${MetricNames}
        Triggered at: ${AlertStartTime}
        Last updated at: ${AlertUpdateTime}
        Related resources: ${AlertResourceInfo}
        Alert details: ${AlertDetailUrl}"
        }
  }