Opsgenie integration

Opsgenie + Centreon Integration Benefits

• Manage your notifications when an alert is detected by Centreon.
• Deduplicate your alerts from Centreon
• Distinguish alerts from incidents using Centreon BAM and Opsgenie
• Create reporting based on your notifications from Centreon

How it Works

• Every time a service, a host or a BA state is checked, the event passes through Centreon Broker, which loads the Stream Connector to send state changes.
• State changes can occur in case of an anomaly detection.
• An alias is generated for each alert to make use of Opsgenie deduplication:

Requirements

• Opsgenie integration requires two different API key. The first one is an integration API key coming from the Rest API HTTPS over JSON integration. This integration must have the Create and Update Access. The second access is an API key coming from the APP Settings. This key must have the Create and Update access right.
• It is also necessary to use a Centreon account with either admin privileges or Export configuration and Broker configuration menu access in the WUI, as well as a root access in command-line interface.

Support

If you need help with this integration, depending on how you are using Centreon, you can:

• Commercial Edition customers: please contact the Centreon Support team.
• Open Source Edition users or Centreon IT-100 users (free versions): please visit our community platform The Watch where our users and staff will try to help you.

Integration Walkthrough

In Opsgenie

Warning, this documentation was written in February 2021, it is possible that certain elements described below became obsoletes due to changes on Opsgenie.

Opsgenie integration: alerts

1. From the Settings menu, select Integration list.
2. In the integration list, add an API integration (Rest API HTTPS over JSON).
3. Head over the Configured integrations menu and edit your API integration to enable it if it is not. You also must to give it a Create and Update Access. Save your configuration and the API Key that is mandatory to send alerts from Centreon to Opsgenie. This API key is referred as integration_api_token in the Centreon configuration.

Opsgenie integration: incidents

1. Before starting, this integration will only work if you are using the Centreon BAM module.
2. From the Settings menu, select API key management in the subcategory APP SETTINGS.
3. In the API key management menu, add a new API key with Create and Update access
4. Save your configuration and your Api key that is mandatory to send incidents from Centreon to Opsgenie. This API key is referred as app_api_token in the Centreon configuration.

In Centreon

Installation

Login as root on the Centreon central server using your favorite SSH client.

Run the command according on your system:

Alma / RHEL / Oracle Linux 8

dnf install centreon-stream-connector-opsgenie

Alma / RHEL / Oracle Linux 9

dnf install centreon-stream-connector-opsgenie

Debian_11

apt install centreon-stream-connector-opsgenie

The Opsgenie Stream Connnector is now installed on your Centreon central server!

Broker configuration

1. Login to the Centreon WUI using an administrator account.
2. Navigate to the Configuration > Pollers menu and select Broker configuration.
3. Click on the central-broker-master broker configuration object and navigate to the Output tab.
4. Add a new Generic - Stream connector output.
5. Name it as you want (eg. Opsgenie) and set the right path for the LUA script: /usr/share/centreon-broker/lua/opsgenie.lua.
6. Add at least one string parameter. That parameter is a key that must be configured. The parameter name must be app_api_token (for the alerts) or integration_api_token (for the incidents, requires the Centreon BAM module). If you want to use both aspects then you need to add both parameters in your configuration

Name	Type	Value
app_api_token	String	<paste your key here>
integration_api_token	String	<paste your key here>

7. Save your configuration, then navigate to the Configuration > Pollers menu and select Pollers.
8. Select the Central poller and click on Export configuration.
9. Keep Generate Configuration Files and Run monitoring engine debug (-v) checked and select Move Export Files and then click on the Export button.
10. Restart the cbd service:

systemctl restart cbd

Now your central server has loaded the Opsgenie Stream Connector and has started to send data!

To make sure that everything goes fine, you should have a look at central-broker-master.log and connector-opsgenie.log, both located in /var/log/centreon-broker.

Advanced configuration

Parameters table

Name	Type	Default value	Description
api_url	String	https://api.opsgenie.com	Opsgenie api address. Use https://api.eu.opsgenie.com if your instance is in Europe
proxy_address	String		If needed, the address of the proxy server (requires proxy_port option)
proxy_port	String		The port of the proxy server
proxy_username	String		If needed, the proxy user (requires proxy_password option)
proxy_password	String		the proxy user password
logfile	String	/var/log/centreon-broker/connector-opsgenie.log	logfile for the stream connector
host_status	String	0,1,2	send event for up, down and unreachable hosts
service_status	String	0,1,2,3	send event for ok, warning, critical, unknown services
ba_status	String	0,1,2	send event for ok, warning, critical business activities
hard_only	Number	1	Only send events in hard state
acknowledged	Number	0	Only send events that are not acknowledged
element_type	String	host_status,service_status,ba_status	Send host, service, BA centreon status event
category_type	String	neb,bam	Filter out non neb or bam events
in_downtime	Number	0	Only send events that are not in downtime
max_buffer_size	Number	1	Send events one at a time
max_buffer_age	Number	5	Store events for 5 second before sending them unless max_buffer_size is reached before
max_stored_events	Number	10	Keep event in cache to avoid sending duplicated events, change with caution
skip_anon_events	Number	1	Do not send events from hosts or services that are not found in the broker cache
skip_nil_id	Number	1	Do not send events from objects that do not have an ID (meta services most of the time)
accepted_hostgroups	String		List of hostgroups in which the host must be (coma separeted eg: grp1,grp2,grp3)
date_format	String	%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S	The default date format for converted timestamps (https://www.lua.org/pil/22.1)
host_alert_message	String	{last_update_date} {hostname} is {state}	The default message for host alerts. See host event macros for more details about macros
host_alert_description	String		The default description of a host alert. See host event macros for more details about macros
host_alert_alias	String	{hostname}_{state}	The default alias for a host alert, useful for alert deduplication. See host event macros for more details about macros
service_alert_message	String	{last_update_date} {hostname} // {serviceDescription} is {state}	The default message for service alerts. See service event macros for more details about macros
service_alert_description	String		The default description of a service alert. See service event macros for more details about macros
service_alert_alias	String	{hostname}_{serviceDescription}_{state}	The default alias for a service alert, useful for alert deduplication. See service event macros for more details about macros
ba_incident_message	String	{baName} is {state}, health level reached {level_nominal}	The default message for a ba incident. See BA event macros for more details about macros
ba_incident_description	String		The default description of a ba incident. See BA event macros for more details about macros
enable_incident_tags	Number	1	Add tags to incidents
get_bv	Number	1	Add BV names as tags if enable_incident_tags is set to 1
ba_incident_tags	String	centreon,applications	List of tags for an incident. must be coma separeted. It will automatically add all the BV related to the BA as tags
enable_severity	Number	0	If set to 1, tries to match a Centreon severity value to an Opsgenie priority.
priority_must_be_set	Number	0	Will drop the alert if set to 1 and it can't match the severity with a priority according to the relation set in the priority_matching parameter
priority_matching	String	P1=1,P2=2,P3=3,P4=4,P5=5	Links priorities to severities with the following syntax: priority_name=severity_value,priority_name=severity_value.
opsgenie_priorities	String	P1,P2,P3,P4,P5	Coma separeted list of Opsgenie priorities

Remarks

• A value of 2 for log_level is fine for initial troubleshooting, but can generate a huge amount of logs if you monitor a lot of hosts. In order to get less log messages, you should keep it a 1.

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How to Uninstall

1. Login to the Centreon WUI using an administrator account.
2. Navigate to the Configuration > Pollers menu and select Broker configuration.
3. Click on the central-broker-master broker configuration object and navigate to the Output tab.
4. Delete the Generic - Stream connector output by clicking on the red circled cross at the end of the line.
5. Save your configuration, then navigate to the Configuration > Pollers menu and select Pollers.
6. Select the Central poller and click on Export configuration.
7. Keep Generate Configuration Files and Run monitoring engine debug (-v) checked and select Move Export Files and then click on the Export button.
8. Restart the cbd service:

systemctl restart cbd

The Stream Connector is not loaded anymore!

9. Optionally, you can even delete the script file:

rm -f /usr/share/centreon-broker/lua/opsgenie.lua

Macros

Macros are a tool to create dynamic messages depending on the event you want to send. They must be enclosed by {} (eg: {hostname}). If a macro is a time type macro then you will be able to use _date suffix to convert it to a human readable format. You can Change this format using the string parameter date_format (eg: {last_update} is a timestamp macro. You can use {last_update_date} to have it converted)

Host event macros

Macro name
hostname

All the Properties in the Host status table are also usable

Service event macros

Macro name
hostname
serviceDescription

All the Properties in the Service status table are also usable

BA event macros

Macro name
baName
baDescription

All the Properties in the Ba status event table are also usable