API Monitoring alerts on 207 Response Code Only

[jurgenroos]

Hi

We would like to be able to setup alerts on 207 response codes (Multi Status), as this indicates a soft failure within our system. The current alerting only allows for 2xx, and we do not want an alert on all the other 2xx events. Is there a way to customise this?

[imesh]

A great question Jurgen. I am also not sure why Alerts are restricted to a certain set of status codes and their series codes: 2xx, 4xx and 5xx. As I found this restriction is applied in the API Monitoring API itself:

https://apidocs.apigee.com/api-monitoring/apis/post/alerts
https://docs.apigee.com/api-monitoring/alerts-notifications-api

I tried creating an alert for HTTP status code 207 and it failed with the following error

curl -0 -i -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" https://apimonitoring.enterprise.apigee.com/alerts?org=${org_name} \
-d @- << EOF
{
    "name":"207 Alert",
    "enabled":true,
    "description":"207 Alert",
    "conditions":[{
        "description":"",
        "dimensions":{
            "env":"${env_name}",
            "org":"${org_name}",
            "proxy":"${proxy_name}",
            "region":"ANY",
            "statusCode":"207"
        },
        "metric":"count",
        "threshold":3,
        "durationSeconds":5
    }],
    "playbook":"https://my/playbook/url",
    "throttleIntervalSeconds":3600,
    "reportEnabled":false,
    "organization":"${org_name}",
    "environment":"${env_name}",
    "notifications":[
    {
         "channel":"email",
         "destination":"myemail@mydomain.org"}
    ]
}
EOF

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:05:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 64
Connection: close
...
{"errorCode":2,"status":400,"message":"not a valid statusCode"}

Hence, we might not be able to workaround this without updating the logic behind. I also informed Apigee Engineering team about this. They may discuss and respond to this.

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