To create a service-level agreement (SLA) for a monitor, send a POST request to /slas, with a JSON body containing the monitor ID and the SLA configuration. The specified monitor must not have an already existing SLA, otherwise, the request will fail.

Request URL

POST https://api.alertsite.com/api/v3/slas

Authentication

The request must include the Authorization header containing a user’s access token:

Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN

See Authentication for more information.

Request body

The request body is a JSON object containing the SLA configuration. The required fields are:

monitor_id – the monitor for which this SLA is created. This monitor must not have an already existing SLA.
name, must be non-empty.
the availability goal as a percentage, must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 100, with up to three decimal places.
the response_time goal, 0…300 seconds, with up to two decimal places.
use_fullpage_time, only required for full-page monitors. Ignored otherwise.

Tip: To check if a monitor is a full-page monitor, use the Get Monitors operation of AlertSite JSON API and check if interval_fullpage is present and different from -1.
the uptime goal as a percentage, must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 100, with up to three decimal places. Only required for monitors with the SLA (MultiPOP) monitoring mode; ignored otherwise.

Tip: To find out a monitor’s Monitoring Mode, use the Get Monitors operation of AlertSite JSON API and examine the mode field.

For a list and descriptions of all available SLA data fields, see SLA Object.

By default, new SLAs are always in effect 24×7, but you can specify custom operating_periods and exclusions.

If SLA description is not specified, it will be copied from the monitor name.

Examples

Minimal example

SLA with operating periods

All possible request fields

Response body

On success, the operation returns HTTP status 200 with the ID of the created SLA:

{
"id": "1234"
}

Error responses have a non-200 status code and contain the errors list, such as:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 400,
      "message": "invalid_request - User authentication failed."
    }
  ]
}

Try it out

Click here to test this operation in AlertSite’s interactive API console.

Code examples

This code creates an SLA for monitor 123456 with the availability goal of 95% and the response time goal of 2 seconds:

Python

# Python 3.5+
import requests  # Requests library http://docs.python-requests.org
import json

baseUrl = 'https://api.alertsite.com/api/v3'
username = '[email protected]'  # Replace with your AlertSite login email
password = 'pa55w0rd'          # Replace with your AlertSite password

sla = {
    'name': 'Home page SLA',
    'monitor_id': 146854,
    'availability': 95,
    'response_time': 2,
    'use_fullpage_time': false
}

# Log in
payload = {'username': username, 'password': password}
r = requests.post(baseUrl + '/access-tokens', data=json.dumps(payload), headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})
token = r.json()['access_token']

# Create an SLA
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
r = requests.post(baseUrl + '/slas', data=json.dumps(sla), headers=headers)

result = r.json()
if r.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
    print('Successfully created an SLA. ID: ', result['id'])
else:
    print('Could not create an SLA. The following errors occurred:', *result['errors'], sep='\n')

Create SLA