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Adding conditions to actions
editAdding conditions to actions
editWhen 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 alway 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.
PUT _xpack/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"
}
}
}
}