Create an alerting policy, in the context of recreating policies from a backup.

Demonstrates how to create an alerting policy.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Create alerting policies by using the API
• Manage alerting policies by API

Code sample

C#

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static void RestorePolicies(string projectId, string filePath)
{
    var policyClient = AlertPolicyServiceClient.Create();
    var channelClient = NotificationChannelServiceClient.Create();
    List<Exception> exceptions = new List<Exception>();
    var backup = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<BackupRecord>(
        File.ReadAllText(filePath), new ProtoMessageConverter());
    var projectName = new ProjectName(projectId);
    bool isSameProject = projectId == backup.ProjectId;
    // When a channel is recreated, rather than updated, it will get
    // a new name.  We have to update the AlertPolicy with the new
    // name.  Track the names in this map.
    var channelNameMap = new Dictionary<string, string>();
    foreach (NotificationChannel channel in backup.Channels)
    {
    }
    foreach (AlertPolicy policy in backup.Policies)
    {
        string policyName = policy.Name;
        // These two fields cannot be set directly, so clear them.
        policy.CreationRecord = null;
        policy.MutationRecord = null;
        // Update channel names if the channel was recreated with
        // another name.
        for (int i = 0; i < policy.NotificationChannels.Count; ++i)
        {
            if (channelNameMap.ContainsKey(policy.NotificationChannels[i]))
            {
                policy.NotificationChannels[i] =
                    channelNameMap[policy.NotificationChannels[i]];
            }
        }
        try
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Updating policy.\n{0}",
                policy.DisplayName);
            bool updated = false;
            if (isSameProject)
                try
                {
                    policyClient.UpdateAlertPolicy(null, policy);
                    updated = true;
                }
                catch (Grpc.Core.RpcException e)
                when (e.Status.StatusCode == StatusCode.NotFound)
                { }
            if (!updated)
            {
                // The policy no longer exists.  Recreate it.
                policy.Name = null;
                foreach (var condition in policy.Conditions)
                {
                    condition.Name = null;
                }
                policyClient.CreateAlertPolicy(projectName, policy);
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Restored {0}.", policyName);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            // If one failed, continue trying to update the others.
            exceptions.Add(e);
        }
    }
    if (exceptions.Count > 0)
    {
        throw new AggregateException(exceptions);
    }
}

Go

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// restorePolicies updates the project with the alert policies and
// notification channels in r.
func restorePolicies(w io.Writer, projectID string, r io.Reader) error {
	b := backup{}
	if err := json.NewDecoder(r).Decode(&b); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	sameProject := projectID == b.ProjectID

	ctx := context.Background()

	alertClient, err := monitoring.NewAlertPolicyClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer alertClient.Close()
	channelClient, err := monitoring.NewNotificationChannelClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer channelClient.Close()

	// When a channel is recreated, rather than updated, it will get
	// a new name.  We have to update the AlertPolicy with the new
	// name.  channelNames keeps track of the new names.
	channelNames := make(map[string]string)
	for _, c := range b.Channels {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Updating channel %q\n", c.GetDisplayName())
		c.VerificationStatus = monitoringpb.NotificationChannel_VERIFICATION_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED
		updated := false
		if sameProject {
			req := &monitoringpb.UpdateNotificationChannelRequest{
				NotificationChannel: c.NotificationChannel,
			}
			_, err := channelClient.UpdateNotificationChannel(ctx, req)
			if err == nil {
				updated = true
			}
		}
		if !updated {
			req := &monitoringpb.CreateNotificationChannelRequest{
				Name:                "projects/" + projectID,
				NotificationChannel: c.NotificationChannel,
			}
			oldName := c.GetName()
			c.Name = ""
			newC, err := channelClient.CreateNotificationChannel(ctx, req)
			if err != nil {
				return err
			}
			channelNames[oldName] = newC.GetName()
		}
	}

	for _, policy := range b.AlertPolicies {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Updating alert %q\n", policy.GetDisplayName())
		policy.CreationRecord = nil
		policy.MutationRecord = nil
		for i, aChannel := range policy.GetNotificationChannels() {
			if c, ok := channelNames[aChannel]; ok {
				policy.NotificationChannels[i] = c
			}
		}
		updated := false
		if sameProject {
			req := &monitoringpb.UpdateAlertPolicyRequest{
				AlertPolicy: policy.AlertPolicy,
			}
			_, err := alertClient.UpdateAlertPolicy(ctx, req)
			if err == nil {
				updated = true
			}
		}
		if !updated {
			req := &monitoringpb.CreateAlertPolicyRequest{
				Name:        "projects/" + projectID,
				AlertPolicy: policy.AlertPolicy,
			}
			if _, err = alertClient.CreateAlertPolicy(ctx, req); err != nil {
				log.Fatal(err)
			}
		}
	}
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Successfully restored alerts.")
	return nil
}

Java

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private static void restoreRevisedPolicies(
    String projectId, boolean isSameProject, List<AlertPolicy> policies) throws IOException {
  try (AlertPolicyServiceClient client = AlertPolicyServiceClient.create()) {
    for (AlertPolicy policy : policies) {
      if (!isSameProject) {
        policy = client.createAlertPolicy(ProjectName.of(projectId), policy);
      } else {
        try {
          client.updateAlertPolicy(null, policy);
        } catch (Exception e) {
          policy =
              client.createAlertPolicy(
                  ProjectName.of(projectId), policy.toBuilder().clearName().build());
        }
      }
      System.out.println(String.format("Restored %s", policy.getName()));
    }
  }
}

Node.js

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const fs = require('fs');

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const monitoring = require('@google-cloud/monitoring');

// Creates a client
const client = new monitoring.AlertPolicyServiceClient();

async function restorePolicies() {
  // Note: The policies are restored one at a time due to limitations in
  // the API. Otherwise, you may receive a 'service unavailable'  error
  // while trying to create multiple alerts simultaneously.

  /**
   * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
   */
  // const projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';

  console.log('Loading policies from ./policies_backup.json');
  const fileContent = fs.readFileSync('./policies_backup.json', 'utf-8');
  const policies = JSON.parse(fileContent);

  for (const index in policies) {
    // Restore each policy one at a time
    let policy = policies[index];
    if (await doesAlertPolicyExist(policy.name)) {
      policy = await client.updateAlertPolicy({
        alertPolicy: policy,
      });
    } else {
      // Clear away output-only fields
      delete policy.name;
      delete policy.creationRecord;
      delete policy.mutationRecord;
      policy.conditions.forEach(condition => delete condition.name);

      policy = await client.createAlertPolicy({
        name: client.projectPath(projectId),
        alertPolicy: policy,
      });
    }

    console.log(`Restored ${policy[0].name}.`);
  }
  async function doesAlertPolicyExist(name) {
    try {
      const [policy] = await client.getAlertPolicy({
        name,
      });
      return policy ? true : false;
    } catch (err) {
      if (err && err.code === 5) {
        // Error code 5 comes from the google.rpc.code.NOT_FOUND protobuf
        return false;
      }
      throw err;
    }
  }
}
restorePolicies();

PHP

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use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\AlertPolicy;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\AlertPolicy\Condition;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\AlertPolicy\Condition\MetricThreshold;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\AlertPolicy\ConditionCombinerType;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\Client\AlertPolicyServiceClient;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\ComparisonType;
use Google\Cloud\Monitoring\V3\CreateAlertPolicyRequest;
use Google\Protobuf\Duration;

/**
 * @param string $projectId Your project ID
 */
function alert_create_policy($projectId)
{
    $alertClient = new AlertPolicyServiceClient([
        'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $projectName = 'projects/' . $projectId;

    $policy = new AlertPolicy();
    $policy->setDisplayName('Test Alert Policy');
    $policy->setCombiner(ConditionCombinerType::PBOR);
    /** @see https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/resources for a list of resource.type */
    /** @see https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/metrics_gcp for a list of metric.type */
    $policy->setConditions([new Condition([
        'display_name' => 'condition-1',
        'condition_threshold' => new MetricThreshold([
            'filter' => 'resource.type = "gce_instance" AND metric.type = "compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization"',
            'duration' => new Duration(['seconds' => '60']),
            'comparison' => ComparisonType::COMPARISON_LT,
        ])
    ])]);
    $createAlertPolicyRequest = (new CreateAlertPolicyRequest())
        ->setName($projectName)
        ->setAlertPolicy($policy);

    $policy = $alertClient->createAlertPolicy($createAlertPolicyRequest);
    printf('Created alert policy %s' . PHP_EOL, $policy->getName());
}

Python

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def restore(project_name, backup_filename):
    """Restore alert policies in a project.

    Arguments:
        project_name (str): The Google Cloud Project to use. The project name
            must be in the format - 'projects/<PROJECT_NAME>'.
        backup_filename (str): Name of the file (along with its path) from
            which the alert policies will be restored.
    """
    print(
        "Loading alert policies and notification channels from {}.".format(
            backup_filename
        )
    )
    record = json.load(open(backup_filename, "rt"))
    is_same_project = project_name == record["project_name"]
    # Convert dicts to AlertPolicies.
    policies_json = [json.dumps(policy) for policy in record["policies"]]
    policies = [
        monitoring_v3.AlertPolicy.from_json(policy_json)
        for policy_json in policies_json
    ]
    # Convert dicts to NotificationChannels
    channels_json = [json.dumps(channel) for channel in record["channels"]]
    channels = [
        monitoring_v3.NotificationChannel.from_json(channel_json)
        for channel_json in channels_json
    ]

    # Restore the channels.
    channel_client = monitoring_v3.NotificationChannelServiceClient()
    channel_name_map = {}

    for channel in channels:
        updated = False
        print("Updating channel", channel.display_name)
        # This field is immutable and it is illegal to specify a
        # non-default value (UNVERIFIED or VERIFIED) in the
        # Create() or Update() operations.
        channel.verification_status = (
            monitoring_v3.NotificationChannel.VerificationStatus.VERIFICATION_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED
        )

        if is_same_project:
            try:
                channel_client.update_notification_channel(notification_channel=channel)
                updated = True
            except google.api_core.exceptions.NotFound:
                pass  # The channel was deleted.  Create it below.

        if not updated:
            # The channel no longer exists.  Recreate it.
            old_name = channel.name
            del channel.name
            new_channel = channel_client.create_notification_channel(
                name=project_name, notification_channel=channel
            )
            channel_name_map[old_name] = new_channel.name

    # Restore the alerts
    alert_client = monitoring_v3.AlertPolicyServiceClient()

    for policy in policies:
        print("Updating policy", policy.display_name)
        # These two fields cannot be set directly, so clear them.
        del policy.creation_record
        del policy.mutation_record

        # Update old channel names with new channel names.
        for i, channel in enumerate(policy.notification_channels):
            new_channel = channel_name_map.get(channel)
            if new_channel:
                policy.notification_channels[i] = new_channel

        updated = False

        if is_same_project:
            try:
                alert_client.update_alert_policy(alert_policy=policy)
                updated = True
            except google.api_core.exceptions.NotFound:
                pass  # The policy was deleted.  Create it below.
            except google.api_core.exceptions.InvalidArgument:
                # Annoying that API throws InvalidArgument when the policy
                # does not exist.  Seems like it should throw NotFound.
                pass  # The policy was deleted.  Create it below.

        if not updated:
            # The policy no longer exists.  Recreate it.
            old_name = policy.name
            del policy.name
            for condition in policy.conditions:
                del condition.name
            policy = alert_client.create_alert_policy(
                name=project_name, alert_policy=policy
            )
        print("Updated", policy.name)

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