---
title: victorops.alert() function
description: victorops.alert() sends an alert to VictorOps.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/flux/v0/stdlib/contrib/bonitoo-io/victorops/alert/
estimated_tokens: 2213
product: Flux
version: v0
---

# victorops.alert() function

-   Flux 0.108.0+
-   View InfluxDB support

`victorops.alert()` is a user-contributed function maintained by the [package author](#package-author-and-maintainer).

`victorops.alert()` sends an alert to VictorOps.

##### Function type signature

```js
(
    messageType: A,
    url: string,
    ?entityDisplayName: B,
    ?entityID: C,
    ?monitoringTool: D,
    ?stateMessage: E,
    ?timestamp: F,
) => int
```

For more information, see [Function type signatures](/flux/v0/function-type-signatures/).

## Parameters

### url

(Required) VictorOps REST endpoint integration URL.

Example: `https://alert.victorops.com/integrations/generic/00000000/alert/<api_key>/<routing_key>` Replace `<api_key>` and `<routing_key>` with valid VictorOps API and routing keys.

### monitoringTool

Monitoring agent name. Default is `""`.

### messageType

(Required) VictorOps message type (alert behavior).

**Valid values**:

-   `CRITICAL`
-   `WARNING`
-   `INFO`

### entityID

Incident ID. Default is `""`.

### entityDisplayName

Incident display name or summary. Default is `""`.

### stateMessage

Verbose incident message. Default is `""`.

### timestamp

Incident start time. Default is `now()`.

## Examples

### Send the last reported value and incident type to VictorOps

```js
import "contrib/bonitoo-io/victorops"
import "influxdata/influxdb/secrets"

apiKey = secrets.get(key: "VICTOROPS_API_KEY")
routingKey = secrets.get(key: "VICTOROPS_ROUTING_KEY")

lastReported =
    from(bucket: "example-bucket")
        |> range(start: -1m)
        |> filter(fn: (r) => r._measurement == "cpu" and r._field == "usage_idle")
        |> last()
        |> findRecord(fn: (key) => true, idx: 0)

victorops.alert(
    url: "https://alert.victorops.com/integrations/generic/00000000/alert/${apiKey}/${routingKey}",
    messageType:
        if lastReported._value < 1.0 then
            "CRITICAL"
        else if lastReported._value < 5.0 then
            "WARNING"
        else
            "INFO",
    entityID: "example-alert-1",
    entityDisplayName: "Example Alert 1",
    stateMessage: "Last reported cpu_idle was ${string(v: r._value)}.",
)
```

[single notification](/flux/v0/tags/single-notification/)