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Find alerts API

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Find alerts API

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Retrieve a paginated set of alerts based on condition.

Request

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GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/alerts/_find

GET <kibana host>:<port>/s/<space_id>/api/alerts/_find

Path parameters

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space_id: (Optional, string) An identifier for the space. If space_id is not provided in the URL, the default space is used.

Query Parameters

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per_page: (Optional, number) The number of alerts to return per page.
page: (Optional, number) The page number.
search: (Optional, string) An Elasticsearch simple_query_string query that filters the alerts in the response.
default_search_operator: (Optional, string) The operator to use for the simple_query_string. The default is OR.
search_fields: (Optional, array|string) The fields to perform the simple_query_string parsed query against.
fields: (Optional, array|string) The fields to return in the attributes key of the response.
sort_field: (Optional, string) Sorts the response. Could be an alert fields returned in the attributes key of the response.
sort_order: (Optional, string) Sort direction, either asc or desc.
has_reference: (Optional, object) Filters the alerts that have a relations with the reference objects with the specific "type" and "ID".
filter: (Optional, string) A KQL string that you filter with an attribute from your saved object. It should look like savedObjectType.attributes.title: "myTitle". However, If you used a direct attribute of a saved object, such as updatedAt, you will have to define your filter, for example, savedObjectType.updatedAt > 2018-12-22.

As alerts change in Kibana, the results on each page of the response also change. Use the find API for traditional paginated results, but avoid using it to export large amounts of data.

Response code

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200: Indicates a successful call.

Examples

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Find alerts with names that start with my:

$ curl -X GET api/alerts/_find?search_fields=name&search=my*

The API returns the following:

{
  "page": 1,
  "perPage": 10,
  "total": 1,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "0a037d60-6b62-11eb-9e0d-85d233e3ee35",
      "notifyWhen": "onActionGroupChange",
      "params": {
        "aggType": "avg",
      },
      "consumer": "alerts",
      "alertTypeId": "test.alert.type",
      "schedule": {
        "interval": "1m"
      },
      "actions": [],
      "tags": [],
      "name": "test alert",
      "enabled": true,
      "throttle": null,
      "apiKeyOwner": "elastic",
      "createdBy": "elastic",
      "updatedBy": "elastic",
      "muteAll": false,
      "mutedInstanceIds": [],
      "updatedAt": "2021-02-10T05:37:19.086Z",
      "createdAt": "2021-02-10T05:37:19.086Z",
      "scheduledTaskId": "0b092d90-6b62-11eb-9e0d-85d233e3ee35",
      "executionStatus": {
        "lastExecutionDate": "2021-02-10T17:55:14.262Z",
        "status": "ok"
      }
    },
  ]
}

For parameters that accept multiple values (e.g. fields), repeat the query parameter for each value:

$ curl -X GET api/alerts/_find?fields=id&fields=name

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