Documentation

opsgenie.sendAlert() function

opsgenie.sendAlert() is a user-contributed function maintained by the package author.

opsgenie.sendAlert() sends an alert message to Opsgenie.

Function type signature
(
    apiKey: string,
    message: string,
    ?actions: A,
    ?alias: string,
    ?description: string,
    ?details: B,
    ?entity: string,
    ?priority: string,
    ?responders: [string],
    ?tags: C,
    ?url: string,
    ?visibleTo: [string],
) => int where B: Stringable

For more information, see Function type signatures.

Parameters

url

Opsgenie API URL. Defaults to https://api.opsgenie.com/v2/alerts.

apiKey

(Required) (Required) Opsgenie API authorization key.

message

(Required) (Required) Alert message text. 130 characters or less.

alias

Opsgenie alias usee to de-deduplicate alerts. 250 characters or less. Defaults to message.

description

Alert description. 15000 characters or less.

priority

Opsgenie alert priority.

Valid values include:

  • P1
  • P2
  • P3 (default)
  • P4
  • P5

responders

List of responder teams or users. Use the user: prefix for users and teams: prefix for teams.

tags

Alert tags.

entity

Alert entity used to specify the alert domain.

actions

List of actions available for the alert.

details

Additional alert details. Must be a JSON-encoded map of key-value string pairs.

visibleTo

List of teams and users the alert will be visible to without sending notifications. Use the user: prefix for users and teams: prefix for teams.

Examples

Send the last reported status to a Opsgenie

import "influxdata/influxdb/secrets"
import "contrib/sranka/opsgenie"

apiKey = secrets.get(key: "OPSGENIE_APIKEY")

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

opsgenie.sendAlert(
    apiKey: apiKey,
    message: "Disk usage is: ${lastReported.status}.",
    alias: "example-disk-usage",
    responders: ["user:john@example.com", "team:itcrowd"],
)

Was this page helpful?

Thank you for your feedback!


New in InfluxDB 3.6

Key enhancements in InfluxDB 3.6 and the InfluxDB 3 Explorer 1.4.

See the Blog Post

InfluxDB 3.6 is now available for both Core and Enterprise. This release introduces the 1.4 update to InfluxDB 3 Explorer, featuring the beta launch of Ask AI, along with new capabilities for simple startup and expanded functionality in the Processing Engine.

For more information, check out:

InfluxDB Docker latest tag changing to InfluxDB 3 Core

On February 3, 2026, the latest tag for InfluxDB Docker images will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments.

If using Docker to install and run InfluxDB, the latest tag will point to InfluxDB 3 Core. To avoid unexpected upgrades, use specific version tags in your Docker deployments. For example, if using Docker to run InfluxDB v2, replace the latest version tag with a specific version tag in your Docker pull command–for example:

docker pull influxdb:2