Ownership
One of the most powerful features of Cortex is the ability to track ownership for entities. This powers many features, including automated notifications to owners when a new Initiative is created.
Entity descriptor
The x-cortex-owners
field allows you to define a list of owners of type email or group.
x-cortex-owners:
- type: email
email: user@example.com
description: This is a description for this owner # optional
# Groups can be pulled from various integrations
- type: group
name: my-team
provider: CORTEX
description: This is a description for this owner # optional
For groups, we support the following integrations:
The value of provider
is the name of the integration that the group is coming from. The available list is:
- ACTIVE_DIRECTORY
- BAMBOO_HR
- CORTEX: Use when referring to a Cortex managed team
- GITHUB
- GITLAB
- OKTA
- OPSGENIE
- SERVICE_NOW
- WORKDAY
name
is a case-sensitive field that refers to the following:
- if your provider is
CORTEX
,name
corresponds to thex-cortex-tag
for the Cortex team you want to identify as an owner - otherwise,
name
corresponds to the upstream identifier of your owner from your integration
Discovery
AWS
Cortex can automatically discover ownership for your AWS resources using their owner
tag. To enable this, make sure that your AWS resources have an owner tag matching the x-cortex-tag
of the corresponding Cortex team and enable the “Sync ownership from AWS” toggle in Settings → Entities → Teams.
We sync ownership from AWS every day at 6 am UTC.