Incident.io

Incident.io is an incident management platform that helps customers declare, collaborate, communicate around and learn from events that disturb their normal course of business - from critical infrastructure being down, to data breaches and security incidents.

This guide explains how to receive incident.io alerts from Monte Carlo alerts.

Setting up Incident.io notifications

  1. Visit the notification settings page.
  2. Create an audience or edit an existing audience.
  3. Name the Audience and select incident.io as the Recipient channel.
  4. Enter the destination incident.io URL from incident.io and token if applicable.
  5. [Optional] Name this recipient, as a single audience can have multiple recipients.
  6. Create audience.

Alert events and updates

The following events receive an update to incident.io:

  1. Alert is created
  2. Alert is acknowledged
  3. Alert status is updated
  4. Alert owner is changed
  5. External ticket is attached to an alert (Jira, ServiceNow, etc.)
  6. Alert is marked as incident
  7. Alert is unmarked as incident
  8. Alert is resolved

The following are the key fields that are changed by alert updates.

Webhook eventalert_feedbackdeclared_alert_severityowner
Alert is creatednullnullnot included in payload
Alert is acknowledgedinvestigating----
Alert status is updatedinvestigating, no_status, work_in_progress, fixed, expected, no_action_needed, false_positive----
Alert owner is changed----email of assigned owner
External ticket is attached to an alert------
Alert is marked as incidentinvestigating (only if current is null or no_status)SEV-1, SEV-2, SEV-3, SEV-4--
Alert is unmarked as incident--null--
Alert is resolvedfixed, expected, no_action_needed, false_positive----