Configure Alert Settings
For each organization and project, you can select which conditions trigger alerts and how users are notified.
Note
M0 Free clusters and M2/M5 Shared clusters
only trigger alerts related to the metrics supported by
those clusters. See Atlas M0 (Free Cluster), M2, and M5 Limits for complete documentation
on M0/M2/M5 alert and metric limitations.
Required Access
To manage all organization alerts, you must have the
Organization Owner role for the organization.
The Organization Billing Admin role grants a
limited authorization to manage billing alerts.
To manage project alerts, you must have
Project Owner access to the project. Users with
Organization Owner access must add themselves to the project
as a Project Owner.
Default Alert Settings
Atlas provides the following default alerts and alert values for a new project:
Connections % of configured limit is,above 80Disk space % used on Data Partition is,above 90Query Targeting: Scanned Objects / Returned,above 1000Note
The default configuration sends an alert only if the ratio of documents scanned to documents returned meets or exceeds the specified threshold for at least 10 minutes.
Replication Oplog Window is,below 1 hoursSystem: CPU (User) % is,above 95
Atlas provides the following default alert for projects using Manage Customer Keys with AWS KMS:
Atlas provides the following default Atlas Search alerts:
For a full list of Atlas Search alerts, see Alert Conditions for Atlas Search.
Atlas provides the following default alert for Serverless instances:
Atlas provides default alerts for projects with clusters that experience auto-scaling events. To learn more about all auto-scaling alert events, see Auto-scaling.
Atlas provides the following default alerts for organizations that use service accounts.
Notification Options
When you configure an alert, you select how notifications are sent. You can select multiple notification methods, such as email, text message, or team collaboration tools.
To use certain notification methods, you must first set up notification methods in the project's settings. If the notification method's value becomes invalid, Atlas sends an email to the project owner. The following notification methods require set up in the project's settings:
Atlas Project
Atlas Organization
Atlas User
Email
SMS
PagerDuty
Datadog
VictorOps
Opsgenie
Microsoft Teams
Webhook
When you configure an alert, you select how notifications are sent. You can select multiple notification methods, such as email, text message, or team collaboration tools.
Atlas supports Slack as a notification method. From the organization's Settings menu, click Add to Slack in Slack Settings and log in to your preferred Slack workspace.
Atlas supports configuring all of the following notification methods during alert configuration:
Atlas Organization
Atlas User
Email
SMS
PagerDuty
Datadog
VictorOps
Opsgenie
Microsoft Teams
Configure an Alert
When you create a new alert, you can clone an existing alert. You can also update an existing alert configuration.
This section describes how to configure all types of alerts. In addition, see:
In Atlas, go to the Project Alerts page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Do one of the following steps:
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, click Project Settings, and click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Project Alerts page displays.
Choose whether to create a new alert setting, clone an existing alert setting, or update an existing alert setting.
To create a new alert without cloning an existing setting:
Click Add.
Select New Alert.
To clone an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to clone.
Click then Clone in that alert setting's row.
To update an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to update.
Click then Edit in that alert setting's row.
Select the category and the condition or metric that triggers the alert.
In the Category section, select the target component. In the Condition/Metric, select the condition. To learn more about alert conditions, see Review Alert Conditions.
Select the alert recipient roles and delivery methods.
In the Add Notification Method section:
Select from the list of roles.
(Optional) To help reduce the false positives that Atlas sends, locate the Recurrence section.
(Optional) In the send if condition lasts at least field, specify the minutes to elapse before the condition sends the alert. The next alert check that runs after the specified time elapses sends the alert.
(Optional) In the resend after field, specify the minutes to elapse before the condition resends the alert. The resend interval must be at least 5 minutes.
In the Add Notifier drop-down menu, select from the options described in the following table.
Notification OptionDescriptionAtlas Project
Sends the alert by email or text message to users with specific roles in the Project.
Atlas Project is the default alert recipient. You can configure the roles the alert is sent to and how it's delivered. You can't add a second Atlas Project as the recipient.
Atlas Project is available as an option in the Add list only if it is not currently in the recipients list.
Select the Project roles that should receive the alerts from the Select Role(s) check boxes or select All Roles for all users in the Project to receive the alert.
Select SMS to send these alerts to the mobile number configured for each Atlas Project user in their Account page.
Select Email to send these alerts to the email address configured for each Atlas Project user in their Account page. Email is checked by default.
Atlas Organization
Sends the alert by email or text message to users with specific roles in the Organization.
Select the Organization roles that should receive the alerts from the Select Role(s) check boxes or select All Roles for all users in the Organization to receive the alert.
Select SMS to send these alerts to the mobile number configured for each Atlas Organization user in Account page.
Select Email to send these alerts to the email address configured for each Atlas Organization user in Account page. Email is checked by default.
Atlas User
Sends the alert by email or text message to a specified Atlas user.
Select SMS to send these alerts to the mobile number configured for the Atlas user in their Account page.
Select Email to send these alerts to the email address configured for the Atlas user in their Account page. Email is checked by default.
Email
Sends the alert to an email address.
SMS
Sends the alert to a mobile number. Atlas removes all punctuation and letters and uses only the digits. If you are outside of the United States or Canada, include
011and the country code because Atlas uses the U.S.-based Twilio to send text messages. As an alternative to your non-U.S. telephone number, use a Google Voice telephone number.For example, enter
01164before the phone number to send the alert to a New Zealand mobile number.Slack
Sends the alert to a Slack channel. Enter the channel name and either an API token or a Bot token. To create an API token, see the https://api.slack.com/web page in your Slack account. To learn more about Bot users in Slack, see https://api.slack.com/bot-users.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
PagerDuty
Sends the alert to a PagerDuty account. Enter only the PagerDuty service key. Define escalation rules and alert assignments directly in PagerDuty.
Users can acknowledge PagerDuty alerts only from the PagerDuty dashboard.
All new PagerDuty keys use their Events API v2.
If you have an Events API v1 key, you can continue to use that key with Atlas.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
Datadog
Sends the alert to a Datadog account as a Datadog event.
When the alert is first opened, Atlas sends the alert as an "error" event. Subsequent updates are sent as "info" events. When the alert is closed, Atlas sends a "success" event.
Enter your DataDog API key under API Key and click Validate Datadog API Key.
Enter your API region.
Atlas supports the following Datadog regions in the Atlas UI:
US1US3US5EU1AP1
Datadog uses
US1by default.To learn more about Datadog's regions, see Datadog Sites.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
VictorOps
Sends the alert to a VictorOps account.
Enter the alphanumeric API key from VictorOps to integrate the VictorOps endpoint for alerts. Add dashes to the API key so it matches the format
xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. For example,489f7he7-790b-9896-a8cf-j4757def1161. Enter an optional routing key to route alerts to a specific VictorOps group. Click Post Test Alert to test the VictorOps configuration. Define escalation and routing rules directly in VictorOps.This option is available only for alerts that require acknowledgement. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge VictorOps alerts from the VictorOps dashboard.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
Opsgenie
Sends the alert to an Opsgenie account. Enter only the Opsgenie API key. Define escalation rules and alert assignments directly in Opsgenie.
This option is available only for alerts that require acknowledgement. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge Opsgenie alerts from the Opsgenie dashboard.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
Microsoft Teams
Sends the alert to a Microsoft Teams channel as an Adaptive Card.
To send alert notifications to a Microsoft Teams channel, you must create a Microsoft Teams incoming webhook. After creating the webhook, you can use the automatically generated URL to configure your Microsoft Teams integration in Atlas.
To setup the integration, see Integrate with Microsoft Teams.
When you view or edit the alert for a Microsoft Teams notification, the URL appears partially redacted.
Webhook
Sends an HTTP POST request to an endpoint for programmatic processing. The request body contains a JSON document that uses the same format as the Atlas Administration API Alerts resource.
This option is available only if you have configured Webhook settings on the Integrations page.
When you view or edit the alert for a webhook notification, the URL appears partially redacted, and the secret appears completely redacted.
In the Webhook URL field, specify the target URL for webhook-based alerts.
(Optional) If you set up your Webhook integration with a secret, in the Webhook Secret field, specify the authentication secret for webhook-based alerts.
To create one alert configuration in the specified project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings create [options]
To update one alert configuration in the specified project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings update <alertConfigId> [options]
To learn more about the syntax and parameters for the previous commands, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas alerts settings create and atlas alerts settings-update.
To list available field types for alert configurations using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings fields type [options]
To learn more about the command syntax and parameters, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas alerts settings fields type.
In Atlas, go to the Organization Settings page.
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Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.
The Organization Settings page displays.
Go to the Organization Alerts page.
Click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Organization Alerts page displays.
Choose whether to create a new alert setting, clone an existing alert setting, or update an existing alert setting.
To create a new alert:
Click Add Alert.
To clone an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to clone.
Click then Clone in that alert setting's row.
To update an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to update.
Click then Edit in that alert setting's row.
Choose the Condition.
Under Select a Condition:
If you chose Service Account:
Select from the following options:
If in DAY(S) appears next to the option you selected, specify the number of days before your service account secret expires that you want to be notified.
If you chose User, select:
If you chose Billing:
Select from the following options:
If above $ appears next to the option you selected, specify the amount in USD where Atlas should trigger the alert if the selected condition exceeds that value.
Select the Notification Method.
Under the Add Notification Method heading, click the button for the particular notification method you want to use.
Notification Option | Service Account Alerts | User Alerts | Billing Alerts | Description |
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Atlas Organization | Sends the alert by email or text message to users with specific roles in the Organization.
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Atlas User | Sends the alert by email or text message to a specified Atlas user.
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Sends the alert to any email address you provide. | ||||
Mobile Number | Sends the alert to a mobile number. Atlas removes all
punctuation and letters and uses only the digits. If you are
outside of the United States or Canada, include For example, for New Zealand enter | |||
Slack | Sends the alert to a Slack channel in the authorized Slack workplace for the Organization. To learn more about Slack authorization, see Authorize Slack to Receive Organization Alerts. Enter the channel name. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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PagerDuty | Sends the alert to a PagerDuty account. Enter only the PagerDuty service key. Define escalation rules and alert assignments directly in PagerDuty. Acknowledge PagerDuty alerts from the PagerDuty dashboard. All new PagerDuty keys use their Events API v2. If you have an Events API v1 key, you can continue to use that key with Atlas. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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Datadog | Sends the alert to a Datadog account as a Datadog event. When the alert is first opened, Atlas sends the alert as an "error" event. Subsequent updates are sent as "info" events. When the alert is closed, Atlas sends a "success" event.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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VictorOps | Sends the alert to a VictorOps account. Enter the alphanumeric
API key
from VictorOps to integrate the VictorOps endpoint for alerts. Add dashes
to the API key so it matches the format This option is available only for alerts that you must acknowledge. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge VictorOps alerts from the VictorOps dashboard. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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Opsgenie | Sends the alert to an Opsgenie account. Enter only the Opsgenie API key from an Opsgenie REST API integration. Define escalation rules and alert assignments in Opsgenie. This option is available only for alerts that you must acknowledge. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge Opsgenie alerts from the Opsgenie dashboard. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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Microsoft Teams | Sends the alert to a Microsoft Teams channel. You can view these alerts in the Adaptive Card displayed in your channel. To send alert notifications to a Microsoft Teams channel, you must create a Microsoft Teams incoming webhook. After creating the webhook, you can use the automatically generated URL to configure your Microsoft Teams integration in Atlas. To setup the integration, see Integrate with Microsoft Teams. When you view or edit the alert for a Microsoft Teams notification, the URL appears partially redacted. |
Configure an Auto-scaling Alert
You can configure alerts for projects for a list of auto-scaling events.
In Atlas, go to the Project Alerts page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Do one of the following steps:
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, click Project Settings, and click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Project Alerts page displays.
Choose whether to create a new alert setting, clone an existing alert setting, or update an existing alert setting.
To create a new alert without cloning an existing setting:
Click Add.
Select New Alert.
To clone an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to clone.
Click then Clone in that alert setting's row.
To update an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to update.
Click then Edit in that alert setting's row.
Select the category and the condition or metric that triggers the alert.
In the Category section, select Atlas Auto Scaling as the target component.
In the Condition/Metric, select one of the following conditions.
You can configure the following auto-scaling alerts:
Auto-scaling: Compute auto-scaling initiated for analytics tierAuto-scaling: Compute auto-scaling down didn't initiate for base tier due to storage requirementsAuto-scaling: Compute auto-scaling didn't initiate for base tier due to insufficient oplog sizeAuto-scaling: Compute auto-scaling didn't initiate for analytics tier due to insufficient oplog sizeAuto-scaling: Disk auto-scaling didn't initiate due to insufficient oplog size
For the alert you want to configure, click then Edit in that alert setting's row.
Select the alert recipients and delivery methods.
In the Add Notification Method section, select from the list of roles, and also select a notification method, such as Email or SMS.
In the Add Notifier drop-down menu, select from the options described in the following table.
Notification OptionDescriptionAtlas Project
Sends the alert by email or text message to users with specific roles in the Project.
Atlas Project is the default alert recipient. You can configure the roles the alert is sent to and how it's delivered. You can't add a second Atlas Project as the recipient.
Atlas Project is available as an option in the Add list only if it is not currently in the recipients list.
Select the Project roles that should receive the alerts from the Select Role(s) check boxes or select All Roles for all users in the Project to receive the alert.
Select SMS to send these alerts to the mobile number configured for each Atlas Project user in their Account page.
Select Email to send these alerts to the email address configured for each Atlas Project user in their Account page. Email is checked by default.
Atlas Organization
Sends the alert by email or text message to users with specific roles in the Organization.
Select the Organization roles that should receive the alerts from the Select Role(s) check boxes or select All Roles for all users in the Organization to receive the alert.
Select SMS to send these alerts to the mobile number configured for each Atlas Organization user in Account page.
Select Email to send these alerts to the email address configured for each Atlas Organization user in Account page. Email is checked by default.
Atlas User
Sends the alert by email or text message to a specified Atlas user.
Select SMS to send these alerts to the mobile number configured for the Atlas user in their Account page.
Select Email to send these alerts to the email address configured for the Atlas user in their Account page. Email is checked by default.
Email
Sends the alert to an email address.
SMS
Sends the alert to a mobile number. Atlas removes all punctuation and letters and uses only the digits. If you are outside of the United States or Canada, include
011and the country code because Atlas uses the U.S.-based Twilio to send text messages. As an alternative to your non-U.S. telephone number, use a Google Voice telephone number.For example, enter
01164before the phone number to send the alert to a New Zealand mobile number.Slack
Sends the alert to a Slack channel. Enter the channel name and either an API token or a Bot token. To create an API token, see the https://api.slack.com/web page in your Slack account. To learn more about Bot users in Slack, see https://api.slack.com/bot-users.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
PagerDuty
Sends the alert to a PagerDuty account. Enter only the PagerDuty service key. Define escalation rules and alert assignments directly in PagerDuty.
Users can acknowledge PagerDuty alerts only from the PagerDuty dashboard.
All new PagerDuty keys use their Events API v2.
If you have an Events API v1 key, you can continue to use that key with Atlas.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
Datadog
Sends the alert to a Datadog account as a Datadog event.
When the alert is first opened, Atlas sends the alert as an "error" event. Subsequent updates are sent as "info" events. When the alert is closed, Atlas sends a "success" event.
Enter your DataDog API key under API Key and click Validate Datadog API Key.
Enter your API region.
Atlas supports the following Datadog regions in the Atlas UI:
US1US3US5EU1AP1
Datadog uses
US1by default.To learn more about Datadog's regions, see Datadog Sites.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
VictorOps
Sends the alert to a VictorOps account.
Enter the alphanumeric API key from VictorOps to integrate the VictorOps endpoint for alerts. Add dashes to the API key so it matches the format
xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. For example,489f7he7-790b-9896-a8cf-j4757def1161. Enter an optional routing key to route alerts to a specific VictorOps group. Click Post Test Alert to test the VictorOps configuration. Define escalation and routing rules directly in VictorOps.This option is available only for alerts that require acknowledgement. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge VictorOps alerts from the VictorOps dashboard.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
Opsgenie
Sends the alert to an Opsgenie account. Enter only the Opsgenie API key. Define escalation rules and alert assignments directly in Opsgenie.
This option is available only for alerts that require acknowledgement. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge Opsgenie alerts from the Opsgenie dashboard.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
View or edit the alert through the Atlas UI.
Query the alert for the notification through the Atlas Administration API.
Microsoft Teams
Sends the alert to a Microsoft Teams channel as an Adaptive Card.
To send alert notifications to a Microsoft Teams channel, you must create a Microsoft Teams incoming webhook. After creating the webhook, you can use the automatically generated URL to configure your Microsoft Teams integration in Atlas.
To setup the integration, see Integrate with Microsoft Teams.
When you view or edit the alert for a Microsoft Teams notification, the URL appears partially redacted.
Webhook
Sends an HTTP POST request to an endpoint for programmatic processing. The request body contains a JSON document that uses the same format as the Atlas Administration API Alerts resource.
This option is available only if you have configured Webhook settings on the Integrations page.
When you view or edit the alert for a webhook notification, the URL appears partially redacted, and the secret appears completely redacted.
In the Webhook URL field, specify the target URL for webhook-based alerts.
(Optional) If you set up your Webhook integration with a secret, in the Webhook Secret field, specify the authentication secret for webhook-based alerts.
Configure a Maintenance Window Alert
You can configure Maintenance Window Alerts for projects with configured maintenance windows.
In Atlas, go to the Project Alerts page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Do one of the following steps:
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, click Project Settings, and click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Project Alerts page displays.
Choose whether to create a new alert setting, clone an existing alert setting, or update an existing alert setting.
To create a new alert without cloning an existing setting:
Click Add.
Select New Alert.
To clone an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to clone.
Click then Clone in that alert setting's row.
To update an existing alert setting:
Click the Alert Settings tab.
Locate the alert setting you want to update.
Click then Edit in that alert setting's row.
Select the alert recipients and delivery methods.
In the Add Notification Method section, select from the list of roles, and also select a notification method, such as Email or SMS.
In the Add Notifier drop-down menu, select from the options described in the following table.
Notification Option | Description |
|---|---|
Atlas Project | Sends the alert by email or text message to users with specific roles in the Project. Atlas Project is the default alert recipient. You can configure the roles the alert is sent to and how it's delivered. You can't add a second Atlas Project as the recipient. Atlas Project is available as an option in the Add list only if it is not currently in the recipients list.
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Atlas Organization | Sends the alert by email or text message to users with specific roles in the Organization.
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Atlas User | Sends the alert by email or text message to a specified Atlas user.
|
Sends the alert to an email address. | |
SMS | Sends the alert to a mobile number. Atlas removes all
punctuation and letters and uses only the digits. If you are
outside of the United States or Canada, include For example, enter |
Slack | Sends the alert to a Slack channel. Enter the channel name and either an API token or a Bot token. To create an API token, see the https://api.slack.com/web page in your Slack account. To learn more about Bot users in Slack, see https://api.slack.com/bot-users. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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PagerDuty | Sends the alert to a PagerDuty account. Enter only the PagerDuty service key. Define escalation rules and alert assignments directly in PagerDuty. Users can acknowledge PagerDuty alerts only from the PagerDuty dashboard. All new PagerDuty keys use their Events API v2. If you have an Events API v1 key, you can continue to use that key with Atlas. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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Datadog | Sends the alert to a Datadog account as a Datadog event. When the alert is first opened, Atlas sends the alert as an "error" event. Subsequent updates are sent as "info" events. When the alert is closed, Atlas sends a "success" event.
After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
|
VictorOps | Sends the alert to a VictorOps account. Enter the alphanumeric
API key
from VictorOps to integrate the VictorOps endpoint for alerts. Add dashes
to the API key so it matches the format This option is available only for alerts that require acknowledgement. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge VictorOps alerts from the VictorOps dashboard. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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Opsgenie | Sends the alert to an Opsgenie account. Enter only the Opsgenie API key. Define escalation rules and alert assignments directly in Opsgenie. This option is available only for alerts that require acknowledgement. You can recieve informational alerts from this third-party monitoring service in Atlas. However, you must resolve these alerts within the external service. Acknowledge Opsgenie alerts from the Opsgenie dashboard. After you create a notification which requires an API or integration key, the key appears partially redacted when you:
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Microsoft Teams | Sends the alert to a Microsoft Teams channel as an Adaptive Card. To send alert notifications to a Microsoft Teams channel, you must create a Microsoft Teams incoming webhook. After creating the webhook, you can use the automatically generated URL to configure your Microsoft Teams integration in Atlas. To setup the integration, see Integrate with Microsoft Teams. When you view or edit the alert for a Microsoft Teams notification, the URL appears partially redacted. |
Webhook | Sends an HTTP POST request to an endpoint for programmatic processing. The request body contains a JSON document that uses the same format as the Atlas Administration API Alerts resource. This option is available only if you have configured Webhook settings on the Integrations page. When you view or edit the alert for a webhook notification, the URL appears partially redacted, and the secret appears completely redacted.
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View Alert Configurations
You can view open alerts, closed alerts, and alert settings on the Project Alerts page. Atlas sends notifications for all alerts that appear on the Open tab. To learn more, see Alerts Workflow.
To view your alert configurations:
In Atlas, go to the Project Alerts page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Do one of the following steps:
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, click Project Settings, and click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Project Alerts page displays.
To list all alert configurations for the specified project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings list [options]
To return the details for the specified alert settings for your project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings describe <alertConfigId> [options]
To learn more about the syntax and parameters for the previous commands, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas alerts settings list and atlas alerts settings describe.
You can view all alerts, alert settings, and deleted alerts on the Organization Alerts page. To learn more, see Alerts Workflow.
To view your alert configurations:
In Atlas, go to the Organization Settings page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.
The Organization Settings page displays.
Go to the Organization Alerts page.
Click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Organization Alerts page displays.
Disable an Alert
In Atlas, go to the Project Alerts page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Do one of the following steps:
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, click Project Settings, and click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Project Alerts page displays.
If you disable an alert setting, Atlas cancels active alerts related to the setting. A disabled alert setting remains visible but grayed-out. You can re-enable it at any time.
To disable one alert configuration in the specified project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings disable <alertConfigId> [options]
To learn more about the command syntax and parameters, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas alerts settings disable.
In Atlas, go to the Organization Settings page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.
The Organization Settings page displays.
Go to the Organization Alerts page.
Click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Organization Alerts page displays.
If you disable an alert setting, Atlas cancels active alerts related to the setting. A disabled alert setting remains visible but grayed-out and can be later re-enabled.
Enable an Alert
To enable an alert that you previously disabled:
In Atlas, go to the Project Alerts page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Do one of the following steps:
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, click Project Settings, and click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Project Alerts page displays.
To enable one alert configuration in the specified project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings enable <alertConfigId> [options]
To learn more about the command syntax and parameters, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas alerts settings enable.
In Atlas, go to the Organization Settings page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.
The Organization Settings page displays.
Go to the Organization Alerts page.
Click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Organization Alerts page displays.
Delete an Alert
Warning
Don't delete the Maintenance Window Alerts that are created when you configure a maintenance window.
If you delete a maintenance window alert, disable and then re-enable your maintenance window to re-create the alerts.
In Atlas, go to the Project Alerts page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your desired project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
Do one of the following steps:
Click the Project Alerts icon in the navigation bar.
Next to the Projects menu, expand the Options menu, click Project Settings, and click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Project Alerts page displays.
To delete one alert configuration in the specified project using the Atlas CLI, run the following command:
atlas alerts settings delete <alertConfigId> [options]
To learn more about the command syntax and parameters, see the Atlas CLI documentation for atlas alerts settings delete.
If you delete an alert setting, Atlas cancels active alerts related to the setting. A deleted alert setting does not remain visible.
In Atlas, go to the Organization Settings page.
Warning
Navigation Improvements In Progress
We're currently rolling out a new and improved navigation experience. If the following steps don't match your view in the Atlas UI, see the preview documentation.
If it's not already displayed, select your desired organization from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
Click the Organization Settings icon next to the Organizations menu.
The Organization Settings page displays.
Go to the Organization Alerts page.
Click Alerts in the sidebar.
The Organization Alerts page displays.
Choose the alert setting to delete.
On the row for a specific alert, click then Delete.
Click Delete in the Delete Alert modal or click Cancel to leave the alert as configured.
Note
If you have not logged in within the five minutes of pushing Delete, you need to re-enter your password, then click Delete again.
If you delete an alert setting, Atlas cancels active alerts related to the setting. A deleted alert setting does not remain visible.