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Monitor REST API: Alerts


An Alert resource instance represents a single log entry for an error or warning encountered when Twilio makes a webhook request to your server, or when your application makes a request to the REST API.

These can be very useful for debugging purposes, and you can configure new email or webhook notifications using Alarms(link takes you to an external page).


Alert Properties

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Warning

The maximum number of Alert resources you can fetch per request to this API is 10,000.

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Warning

Unlike other parts of the REST API, the representation of an Alert instance is different from the Alert representations within responses from the list resource. Due to the potentially very large amount of data in an alert, the full HTTP request and response data is only returned in the Alert instance resource representation.

Resource properties
account_sidtype: SID<AC>Not PII

The SID of the Account(link takes you to an external page) that created the Alert resource.


alert_texttype: stringNot PII

The text of the alert.


api_versiontype: stringNot PII

The API version used when the alert was generated. Can be empty for events that don't have a specific API version.


date_createdtype: string<DATE TIME>Not PII

The date and time in GMT when the resource was created specified in ISO 8601(link takes you to an external page) format.


date_generatedtype: string<DATE TIME>Not PII

The date and time in GMT when the alert was generated specified in ISO 8601(link takes you to an external page) format. Due to buffering, this can be different than date_created.


date_updatedtype: string<DATE TIME>Not PII

The date and time in GMT when the resource was last updated specified in ISO 8601(link takes you to an external page) format.


error_codetype: stringNot PII

The error code for the condition that generated the alert. See the Error Dictionary(link takes you to an external page) for possible causes and solutions to the error.


log_leveltype: stringNot PII

The log level. Can be: error, warning, notice, or debug.


more_infotype: stringNot PII

The URL of the page in our Error Dictionary(link takes you to an external page) with more information about the error condition.


request_methodtype: enum<HTTP METHOD>Not PII

The method used by the request that generated the alert. If the alert was generated by a request we made to your server, this is the method we used. If the alert was generated by a request from your application to our API, this is the method your application used.

Possible values:
HEADGETPOSTPATCHPUTDELETE

request_urltype: stringNot PII

The URL of the request that generated the alert. If the alert was generated by a request we made to your server, this is the URL on your server that generated the alert. If the alert was generated by a request from your application to our API, this is the URL of the resource requested.


resource_sidtype: SIDNot PII

The SID of the resource for which the alert was generated. For instance, if your server failed to respond to an HTTP request during the flow of a particular call, this value would be the SID of the server. This value is empty if the alert was not generated for a particular resource.


sidtype: SID<NO>Not PII

The unique string that we created to identify the Alert resource.


urltype: string<URI>Not PII

The absolute URL of the Alert resource.


service_sidtype: SIDNot PII

The SID of the service or resource that generated the alert. Can be null.


request_variablestype: stringNot PII

The variables passed in the request that generated the alert. This value is only returned when a single Alert resource is fetched.


response_bodytype: stringNot PII

The response body of the request that generated the alert. This value is only returned when a single Alert resource is fetched.


response_headerstype: stringNot PII

The response headers of the request that generated the alert. This value is only returned when a single Alert resource is fetched.


request_headerstype: stringNot PII

The request headers of the request that generated the alert. This value is only returned when a single Alert resource is fetched.


GET https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts/{Sid}

Parameters

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URI parameters
Sidtype: SID<NO>Not PII
Path Parameter

The SID of the Alert resource to fetch.

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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
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const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);
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client.monitor.v1.alerts('NOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')
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.fetch()
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.then(alert => console.log(alert.alertText));

Output

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{
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"account_sid": "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
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"alert_text": "alert_text",
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"api_version": "2010-04-01",
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"date_created": "2015-07-30T20:00:00Z",
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"date_generated": "2015-07-30T20:00:00Z",
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"date_updated": "2015-07-30T20:00:00Z",
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"error_code": "error_code",
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"log_level": "log_level",
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"more_info": "more_info",
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"request_method": "GET",
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"request_url": "http://www.example.com",
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"request_variables": "request_variables",
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"resource_sid": "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
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"response_body": "response_body",
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"response_headers": "response_headers",
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"request_headers": "request_headers",
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"sid": "NOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
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"url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts/NOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
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"service_sid": "PNe2cd757cd5257b0217a447933a0290d2"
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}


Read multiple Alert resources

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GET https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts

Returns a list of alerts generated for an account. The list includes paging information.

URI parameters
LogLeveltype: stringNot PII
Query Parameter

Only show alerts for this log-level. Can be: error, warning, notice, or debug.


StartDatetype: string<DATE TIME>Not PII
Query Parameter

Only include alerts that occurred on or after this date and time. Specify the date and time in GMT and format as YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. Queries for alerts older than 30 days are not supported.


EndDatetype: string<DATE TIME>Not PII
Query Parameter

Only include alerts that occurred on or before this date and time. Specify the date and time in GMT and format as YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. Queries for alerts older than 30 days are not supported.


PageSizetype: integerNot PII
Query Parameter

How many resources to return in each list page. The default is 50, and the maximum is 1000.


Pagetype: integerNot PII
Query Parameter

The page index. This value is simply for client state.


PageTokentype: stringNot PII
Query Parameter

The page token. This is provided by the API.

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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
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const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);
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client.monitor.v1.alerts.list({limit: 20})
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.then(alerts => alerts.forEach(a => console.log(a.sid)));

Output

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{
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"alerts": [],
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"meta": {
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"first_page_url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=0",
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"key": "alerts",
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"next_page_url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=1",
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"page": 0,
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"page_size": 50,
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"previous_page_url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=0",
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"url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=0"
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}
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}

Only show WARNING alerts generated between midnight April 1, 2015 and midnight April 30, 2015

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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install
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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console
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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure
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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;
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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;
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const client = require('twilio')(accountSid, authToken);
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client.monitor.v1.alerts
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.list({
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endDate: '2015-04-30',
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logLevel: 'warning',
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startDate: '2015-04-01',
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limit: 20
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})
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.then(alerts => alerts.forEach(a => console.log(a.sid)));

Output

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{
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"alerts": [],
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"meta": {
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"first_page_url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=0",
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"key": "alerts",
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"next_page_url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=1",
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"page": 0,
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"page_size": 50,
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"previous_page_url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=0",
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"url": "https://monitor.twilio.com/v1/Alerts?LogLevel=log_level&StartDate=2016-01-01&EndDate=2016-01-01&PageSize=50&Page=0"
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}
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}


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