Programmatically configuring alerts

[Asasen1]

var seq = new SeqConnection("http://localhost:5341", apiKey: "1234567890123456");

var app = await seq.Apps.InstallPackageAsync("nuget.org", "Seq.App.Mail.Smtp");

Seq.Api.Client.SeqApiException: The Seq request failed (404/NotFound). Not found.
at Seq.Api.Client.SeqApiClient.HttpSendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Seq.Api.Client.SeqApiClient.HttpGetAsync[T](String url, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Seq.Api.SeqConnection.Seq.Api.ResourceGroups.ILoadResourceGroup.LoadResourceGroupAsync(String name, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Seq.Api.ResourceGroups.ApiResourceGroup.GroupPostAsync[TEntity,TResponse](String link, TEntity content, IDictionary`2 parameters, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Seq.Api.ResourceGroups.AppsResourceGroup.InstallPackageAsync(String feedId, String packageId, String version, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

[nblumhardt]

Hi! That first parameter to InstallPackageAsync is the id, not the name, of the feed:

var feedId = (await connection.Feeds.ListAsync()).Single().Id;
var app = await seq.Apps.InstallPackageAsync(feedId, "Seq.App.Mail.Smtp");

HTH

[Asasen1]

Hi! That first parameter to InstallPackageAsync is the id, not the name, of the feed:

var feedId = (await connection.Feeds.ListAsync()).Single().Id;
var app = await seq.Apps.InstallPackageAsync(feedId, "Seq.App.Mail.Smtp");
HTH

Hi, thanks for your reply. I'm trying to set up automatic email alert configuration using the Seq API. Could you please tell me how I can do this? In your case, as I understand it, you should already have some feeds ready.

[nblumhardt]

Hi Artemiy,

There's quite a bit of code involved so I can't quickly produce an exact example for you, but I've found an integration test we use that sets up and triggers some alerts, so I've tweaked and included that below:

var feed = (await connection.Feeds.ListAsync()).Single();
var app = await connection.Apps.InstallPackageAsync(feed.Id, "Seq.App.FileArchive");

var instance = await connection.AppInstances.TemplateAsync(app.Id);
instance.Title = "File Archive";
instance.AcceptStreamedEvents = false;
instance.Settings["PathFormat"] = "C:\\Data\\Notifications-{Date}.txt";
instance.InvocationOverridableSettings = new() {"PathFormat"};

instance = await connection.AppInstances.AddAsync(instance);

// Assuming you alert based on a signal, you'll need to find it here
var signal = (await connection.Signals.ListAsync(shared: true)).First();

var initial = await connection.Alerts.TemplateAsync(
    signal: new SignalExpressionPart {Kind = SignalExpressionKind.Signal, SignalId = signal.Id},
    query: "select mean(Elapsed) as elapsed from stream where @EventType = 0x12345678 group by MachineName as mn ci, time(1h) having elapsed > 100");

initial.Title = Some.String();
initial.SignalExpression = null;

var newNotificationChannel = new NotificationChannelPart
{
    NotificationAppInstanceId = instance.Id,
    NotificationMessage = "Some Message",
    IncludeContributingEvents = true,
    IncludedContributingEventLimit = 5
};

initial.NotificationChannels.Add(newNotificationChannel);

await connection.Alerts.AddAsync(initial);

(Please excuse some awkward/nonsensical variable names, this is the result of mashing together a few different blocks of code 😅 )

Hope this helps,
Nick