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Sensu Integration Guide – VictorOps

Requirements

VictorOps Version Required: Getting Started, Essentials, or Full-Stack

The Sensu integration uses a dedicated Sensu endpoint key to send alerts into the VictorOps timeline. Below are the necessary parts and some relevant Sensu docs.


In VictorOps

Navigate to your VO instance’s Integrations page by clicking Integrations. From the resulting list of integrations, select the Sensu integration.

From here, click the ‘Enable Integration’ button to have a Sensu API Endpoint generated for you. Copy this Service API Endpoint to your clipboard, ensuring that your replace the ‘$routing_key’ piece at the end of the API Endpoint to a valid routing_key. Alerts from this configuration will route through this key. For more information on routing_keys, please see this Knowledge Base article.


VictorOps.json

Edit Line 18 in the following config file so that it contains your Sensu API Endpoint you just copied instead of “https://alert.victorops.com/integrations/generic/SOMETHIHNG/alert/UUID” and place it in /etc/sensu/conf.d then, download the VictorOps handler and the integration is complete!

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{
"handlers": {
   "victorops": {
     "type": "pipe",
     "command": "/etc/sensu/handlers/victorops.rb"
   }
 },
 "checks": {
   "tmp_check": {
     "description": "check that /tmp exists ",
     "handler": "victorops",
     "command": "ls /tmp",
     "interval": 30,
     "subscribers": [ "all_servers" ]
   }
 },
 "victorops" : {
   "api_url": "https://alert.victorops.com/integrations/generic/SOMETHIHNG/alert/UUID",
   "routing_key" : "everyone"
 }
}

VictorOps Handler

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# This handler creates and resolves victorops incidents
#
# Released under the same terms as Sensu (the MIT license); see LICENSE
# for details.
# Downloaded from:
# https://help.victorops.com/knowledge-base/victorops-sensu-integration/#
 
require 'rubygems' if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9.0'
require 'sensu-handler'
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'
require 'json'
 
class VictorOps < Sensu::Handler
 def handle
   config = settings['victorops']
   incident_key = @event['client']['name'] + '/' + @event['check']['name']
 
   description = @event['check']['notification']
   description ||= [@event['client']['name'], @event['check']['name'], @event['check']['output']].join(' : ')
   host = @event['client']['name']
   entity_id = incident_key
   state_message  = description
   begin
     Timeout.timeout(10) do
 
       case @event['action']
       when 'create'
         case @event['check']['status']
         when 1
           message_type = 'WARNING'
         else
           message_type = 'CRITICAL'
         end
       when 'resolve'
          message_type = 'RECOVERY'
       end
 
       payload = Hash.new
       payload[:message_type] = message_type
       payload[:state_message] = state_message.chomp
       payload[:entity_id] = entity_id
       payload[:host_name] = host
       payload[:monitoring_tool] = 'sensu'
 
       # Add in client data
       payload[:check] = @event['check']
       payload[:client] = @event['client']
 
       uri   = URI("#{config['api_url'].chomp('/')}/#{config['routing_key']}")
       https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
 
       https.use_ssl = true
 
       request      = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
       request.body = payload.to_json
       response     = https.request(request)
 
       if response.code == '200'
         puts "victorops -- #{@event['action'].capitalize}'d incident -- #{incident_key}"
       else
         puts "victorops -- failed to #{@event['action']} incident -- #{incident_key}"
         puts "victorops -- response: #{response.inspect}"
       end
     end
   rescue Timeout::Error
     puts 'victorops -- timed out while attempting to ' + @event['action'] + ' a incident -- ' + incident_key
   end
 end
end

Sensu Documentation

Sensu documentation on Handlers

Updated on October 9, 2019

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