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Summary​

OpsGenie is an alert and on-call management platform. You can use OpsGenie to drive insights into values such as:

  • Oncall rotation
  • Escalation policies
  • Alerts in the Event Timeline

Setup​

In order to connect Cortex to your OpsGenie instance, you’ll need to create a OpsGenie API Key with Read and Configuration Access, and add it under Settings → OpsGenie.

If using the EU region of OpsGenie, just enable the "EU" toggle when adding the API Key.

Service Registration​

Oncall​

The OpsGenie integration supports rotations by using the Rotation UUID or the Rotation name.

The UUID for the rotation can be found in URL when editing Rotation in the OpsGenie dashboard.

x-cortex-oncall:
  opsgenie:
    type: SCHEDULE
    id: Cortex-Engineering # Optionally, can use the Rotation UUID instead

Ownership​

You can define the following block in your Cortex Service Descriptor to add your Google group as a service owner.
x-cortex-owners:
  - type: group
    name: My Opsgenie Team

The value for name should be the name of the team defined in Opsgenie (case-sensitive).

Alerts​

Discovery​

By default, Cortex will use the service identifier (e.g. my-service) as the "best guess" value for the backend and service tags on your alerts. For example, if your alert in Opsgenie has the tag backend:my-service, the alert will be automatically associated with the service in Cortex whose unique identifier is my-service.

Service Descriptor​

If your Opsgenie tags don’t cleanly match the Cortex service identifier, or you use different identifying tags, you can override this in the Cortex Service Descriptor.

x-cortex-alerts:
  - type: opsgenie
    tag: different-tag
    value: my-service-override-tag

For example, for the tag backend:my-service, the yaml would have tag: backend and value: my-service.

You can add a list of tags to use for lookup. Cortex will use an OR operator when querying Opsgenie, e.g. backend:my-service OR service:another-value.

The value field supports wildcards, like value: my-service-*.