exampleCommand

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Overview

Example alerter command to echo message to console.

An alerter command is some command or script to be called by alerter on anomalies found.

Command Line Call

This command will be called by alerter with a JSON-formatted argument:

$ ./echo <JSON-string>

JSON Argument

JSON argument example

{
  "project": {"name": "foo"},
  "user": {
     "name": "jack",
     "email": "jack@gmail.com",
     "enableEmail": true,
     "enablePhone": true,
     "phone": "18735121212"
   },
  "metric": {
    "name": "timer.count_ps.api",
    "score": 1.02,
    "stamp": 1452494901,
    "value": 139.1
  }
}

Alerter Command

An alerter command/script should be like this (pseudo code):

// Parse command line arguments#1 json string
s = argv[1]
data = loadJSON(s)

if data['user']['enableEmail'] then
	// Send email.
	sendEmail(data['user']['email'], data['metric'])
endif
if data['user']['enablePhone'] then
	// Send sms.
	sendPhone(data['user']['phone'], data['metric'])
endif