Adding conditions to Watcher actions

When a watch is triggered, its condition determines whether or not to execute the watch actions. Within each action, you can also add a condition per action. These additional conditions enable a single alert to execute different actions depending on a their respective conditions. The following watch would always send an email, when hits are found from the input search, but only trigger the notify_pager action when there are more than 5 hits in the search result.

resp = client.watcher.put_watch(
    id="log_event_watch",
    trigger={
        "schedule": {
            "interval": "5m"
        }
    },
    input={
        "search": {
            "request": {
                "indices": "log-events",
                "body": {
                    "size": 0,
                    "query": {
                        "match": {
                            "status": "error"
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    condition={
        "compare": {
            "ctx.payload.hits.total": {
                "gt": 0
            }
        }
    },
    actions={
        "email_administrator": {
            "email": {
                "to": "sys.admino@host.domain",
                "subject": "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors",
                "body": "Too many error in the system, see attached data",
                "attachments": {
                    "attached_data": {
                        "data": {
                            "format": "json"
                        }
                    }
                },
                "priority": "high"
            }
        },
        "notify_pager": {
            "condition": {
                "compare": {
                    "ctx.payload.hits.total": {
                        "gt": 5
                    }
                }
            },
            "webhook": {
                "method": "POST",
                "host": "pager.service.domain",
                "port": 1234,
                "path": "/{{watch_id}}",
                "body": "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors"
            }
        }
    },
)
print(resp)

const response = await client.watcher.putWatch({
  id: "log_event_watch",
  trigger: {
    schedule: {
      interval: "5m",
    },
  },
  input: {
    search: {
      request: {
        indices: "log-events",
        body: {
          size: 0,
          query: {
            match: {
              status: "error",
            },
          },
        },
      },
    },
  },
  condition: {
    compare: {
      "ctx.payload.hits.total": {
        gt: 0,
      },
    },
  },
  actions: {
    email_administrator: {
      email: {
        to: "sys.admino@host.domain",
        subject: "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors",
        body: "Too many error in the system, see attached data",
        attachments: {
          attached_data: {
            data: {
              format: "json",
            },
          },
        },
        priority: "high",
      },
    },
    notify_pager: {
      condition: {
        compare: {
          "ctx.payload.hits.total": {
            gt: 5,
          },
        },
      },
      webhook: {
        method: "POST",
        host: "pager.service.domain",
        port: 1234,
        path: "/{{watch_id}}",
        body: "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors",
      },
    },
  },
});
console.log(response);

PUT _watcher/watch/log_event_watch
{
  "trigger" : {
    "schedule" : { "interval" : "5m" }
  },
  "input" : {
    "search" : {
      "request" : {
        "indices" : "log-events",
        "body" : {
          "size" : 0,
          "query" : { "match" : { "status" : "error" } }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "condition" : {
    "compare" : { "ctx.payload.hits.total" : { "gt" : 0 } }
  },
  "actions" : {
    "email_administrator" : {
      "email" : {
        "to" : "sys.admino@host.domain",
        "subject" : "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors",
        "body" : "Too many error in the system, see attached data",
        "attachments" : {
          "attached_data" : {
            "data" : {
              "format" : "json"
            }
          }
        },
        "priority" : "high"
      }
    },
    "notify_pager" : {
      "condition": { 
        "compare" : { "ctx.payload.hits.total" : { "gt" : 5 } }
      },
      "webhook" : {
        "method" : "POST",
        "host" : "pager.service.domain",
        "port" : 1234,
        "path" : "/{{watch_id}}",
        "body" : "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors"
      }
    }
  }
}

A condition that only applies to the notify_pager action, which restricts its execution to when the condition succeeds (at least 5 hits in this case).

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