Logz.io

This document will help you integrate Logz.io with Squadcast.

Logz.io allows engineers to look into their stack with powerful log, metric, and tracing analytics based on the cloud-native tools they use. Route detailed monitoring alerts from Logz.io to the right users in Squadcast.

How to integrate Logz.io with Squadcast

In Squadcast: Using Logz.io as an Alert Source

(1) From the navigation bar on the left, select Services. Pick the applicable Team from the Team-picker on the top. Next, click on Alert Sources for the applicable Service

(2) Search for Logz.io from the Alert Source drop-down and copy the Webhook URL

In Logz.io: Create a Squadcast webhook alert

(1) In the app, go to Alerts & Events > Notification endpoints to create the webhook

(2) Click on Add endpoint

(3) Fill in the form as shown below:

• Type: Custom
• Name: Squadcast Webhook
• Description (optional)
• URL: Paste the URL endpoint that was copied from Squadcast Service for Logz.io
• Method: POST
• Run the test to see if you received a test alert in Squadcast
• Click on Save

Find more details on how each of these parameters can be configured here

{
    "alert_title": "{{alert_title}}",
    "alert_description": "{{alert_description}}",
    "alert_severity": "{{alert_severity}}",
    "account_id": "{{account_id}}",
    "account_name": "{{account_name}}",
    "alert_samples": "{{alert_samples}}",
    "alert_tags_json": "[{{alert_tags_json}}]"
}

(4) Next, to create the alert itself, you can either:

• Go to Alerts & Events > New Alert or,
• Click on Create Alert from the Kibana dashboard

Find more details on how each of these parameters can be configured here

(5) Give the alert a title

Now, you will have to fill out the 3 sections:

(a) Search for… section:

• Either enter your Search query or verify that the query present is correct
• Choose to Group By certain fields
• Select Accounts to Search
• Choose to repeat this (by adding another query), join the queries, etc.

(5) (b) Trigger if… section:

• Add Trigger conditions for the alert and add one or more thresholds for the trigger

(5) (c) Notify section:

• Add a Description for the alert (which will be visible for these incidents in Squadcast)
• Associate Tags (if any)
• Who to send it to -> choose Squadcast Webhook
• Choose a wait time between notifications as needed
• Output format -> choose JSON
• You can choose to either send all log fields or custom fields

(6) Click on Save

That is it, you are now good to go! Whenever a log alert is triggered in Logz.io, an incident will be created automatically in Squadcast.