Using OpsGenie with the Alertmanager

The Alertmanager has integrations to a variety of popular notification mechanisms. Let's see how easy it is to hook it in to OpsGenie.

OpeGenie Setup

First we need to create an integration in OpsGenie, and obtain an API key.

From the side menu, go to the "Integrations" page in OpsGenie:

Add a new "API" integration:

Note down the API Key, and save the integration:

Alertmanager Setup

Let's download, configure and run an Alertmanger:

API_KEY=XXXX  # Substitute in your API key here.
wget https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/releases/download/v0.5.0/alertmanager-0.5.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf alertmanager-*.linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd alertmanager-*

cat <<EOF > alertmanager.yml
route:
 group_by: [cluster]
 # If an alert isn't caught by a route, send it to the pager.
 receiver: team-pager
 routes:
  # Send severity=page alerts to the pager.
  - match:
      severity: page
    receiver: team-pager

receivers:
- name: team-pager
  opsgenie_configs:
  - api_key: $API_KEY
    teams: example_team   # Put in your team here
EOF
./alertmanager &

That’s all now setup, and you can see your firing alerts in OpsGenie: