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Signoz Create Alert Example

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Signoz Create Alert Example is an example object payload from SigNoz, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

examplerequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "example": "Create a metric-based alert for high error rate",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "path": "/api/v2/rules",
    "headers": {
      "SigNoz-Api-Key": "your-api-key",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "name": "High Error Rate Alert",
      "description": "Alert when HTTP error rate exceeds 5% over 5 minutes",
      "severity": "critical",
      "alertType": "METRIC_BASED_ALERT",
      "evalWindow": "5m",
      "frequency": "1m",
      "condition": {
        "op": ">",
        "target": 5,
        "compositeQuery": {
          "queryType": "builder",
          "builderQueries": {
            "A": {
              "queryName": "A",
              "stepInterval": 60,
              "dataSource": "metrics",
              "aggregateOperator": "rate",
              "aggregateAttribute": {
                "key": "http_server_requests_total",
                "dataType": "float64"
              },
              "filters": {
                "items": [
                  {
                    "key": { "key": "http_status_code", "type": "tag" },
                    "op": ">=",
                    "value": "500"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "labels": {
        "team": "backend",
        "environment": "production"
      },
      "annotations": {
        "summary": "High error rate detected on {{ $labels.service }}",
        "description": "Error rate is {{ $value }}% on service {{ $labels.service }}"
      },
      "channels": ["channel-id-123"]
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "data": {
        "id": 42,
        "name": "High Error Rate Alert",
        "description": "Alert when HTTP error rate exceeds 5% over 5 minutes",
        "severity": "critical",
        "alertType": "METRIC_BASED_ALERT",
        "state": "normal",
        "evalWindow": "5m",
        "frequency": "1m",
        "createdAt": "2026-05-02T10:00:00Z",
        "updatedAt": "2026-05-02T10:00:00Z"
      }
    }
  }
}

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