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Version: 0.14.13

How to trigger Opsgenie notifications as an Action

This guide will help you set up Opsgenie alert notifications when running Great Expectations. This is useful as it can provide alerting when Great Expectations is run, or certain ExpectationsA verifiable assertion about data. begin failing (or passing!).

Prerequisites: This how-to guide assumes you have:

Steps​

1. Set up a new API integration within Opsgenie​

  • Navigate to Settings > Integration list within Opsgenie using the sidebar menu.

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  • Select add on the 'API' integration, this will generally be the first available option.

  • Name the integration something meaningful such as 'Great Expectations'

  • Assign the alerts to any relevant team.

  • Click the copy icon next to the API Key - you'll need this for the next step.

  • Add any required responders.

  • Ensure 'Create and Update Access' is checked along with the 'Enabled' checkbox.

  • Click 'Save Integration' to save the newly created integration.

2. Update your Great Expectations configuration variables​

Using the API Key you copied from Step 1, update your Great Expectations configuration variables in your config_variables.yml file

opsgenie_api_key: YOUR-API-KEY

3. Add send_opsgenie_alert_on_validation_result operator to great_expectations.yml​

Next, update your Great Expectations configuration file to add a new operator to the ActionsA Python class with a run method that takes a Validation Result and does something with it list in great_expectations.yml

validation_operators:
  action_list_operator:
    class_name: ActionListValidationOperator
    action_list:
    - name: send_opsgenie_alert_on_validation_result
      action:
        class_name: OpsgenieAlertAction
        notify_on: all
        api_key: ${opsgenie_api_key}
        priority: P3
        renderer:
          module_name: great_expectations.render.renderer.opsgenie_renderer
          class_name: OpsgenieRenderer
  • Set notify_on to one of, "all", "failure", or "success"
  • Optionally set a priority (from P1 - P5, defaults to P3)
  • Set region: eu if you are using the European Opsgenie endpoint

4. Validate a Batch of data to test your alerts​

Run your action_list_operator, to ValidateThe act of applying an Expectation Suite to a Batch. a BatchA selection of records from a Data Asset. of data and receive an Opsgenie alert on the success or failure of the Validation.

context.run_validation_operator('action_list_operator', assets_to_validate=batch, run_name="opsgenie_test")