Modify an Alert

You can change the trigger conditions for an alert, activate or deactivate alert notifications, or change the alert notification method (email, webhook, or send to vRealize Operations).

Note:

If your user account is assigned a role with full access for content packs and alerts, you can activate a content pack alert and modify its notifications. However, you cannot update or remove the content pack alert.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you are logged in to the vRealize Log Insight web user interface, for which the URL format is https://log_insight-host. Here, log_insight-host is the IP address or host name of the vRealize Log Insight virtual appliance.
• Verify that your user account is associated with a role that has the relevant permissions for alerts.

  If your user account is assigned a role with view access to alerts (for example, the User role), you can view all the alerts in your organization . However, you can manage only your own alerts.

  If your user account is assigned a role with edit or full access to alerts (for example, the Super Admin role):

  • You can activate or deactivate all the system alerts in your organization.
  • You can create, modify, and remove all the user-defined alerts in your organization.
  For information about roles, see Create and Modify Roles in Administering vRealize Log Insight.

Also, verify the following for email, webhook, and vRealize Operations notifications:

• Verify that SMTP is configured to activate email notifications. See Configure the SMTP Server for Log Insight.
• If you are using webhooks, verify that a web server has been configured to receive webhook notifications. See Configure a Webhook.
• Verify that the connection between vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations is configured to activate alert integration. See Configure Log Insight to Send Notification Events to vRealize Operations.

Procedure

1. On the Alerts tab, click Alerts.
2. Locate the alert that you want to modify. You can search for the alert by entering keywords in the search text box or by using the sort or filter functionalities.
3. Click the three dots icon against the alert and click Edit.
4. Modify the alert as required.
   Note: If you clear all the notification options, the alert is deactivated.
5. Click Save.