InternetVista

Overview

This document provides a detailed guide to integrating InternetVista with Callgoose SQIBS for real-time Incident Management, Incident Auto Remediation, Event-Driven Automation, and other automation purposes. The integration enables automatic creation, updating, and resolution of incidents in Callgoose SQIBS based on alerts triggered in InternetVista. The guide includes steps for setting up alerts in InternetVista, configuring webhook notifications, creating API filters in Callgoose SQIBS, and troubleshooting.

Prerequisites

• InternetVista Account: Access to InternetVista for creating alerts and managing notifications.
• Callgoose SQIBS Account: With valid privileges to set up API filters and receive notifications.
• Webhook/API Endpoint: Available in Callgoose SQIBS to receive alerts from InternetVista.

1. Obtain API Token and Endpoint Details

To integrate with Callgoose SQIBS, you first need to obtain an API token and find the API endpoint details.

• Generate an API Token:
• Follow the guide on How to Create API Token in Callgoose SQIBS.
• Find the API Endpoint:
• Refer to the Callgoose SQIBS API Endpoint Documentation to get the endpoint details where the JSON payloads from InternetVista will be sent.

2. Debugging and Troubleshooting

You can enable debugging in the API tokens used with InternetVista notifications for troubleshooting purposes.

• Enable Debugging:
• You can update the debug value when adding or updating an API token.
• When API tracking is enabled, logs are stored in the API log section for your review. The debugging option will automatically disable after 48 hours.
• When API tracking is turned off, no logs are saved in the API log.
• Using API Log for Troubleshooting:
• The API log provides detailed information on all API calls made to Callgoose SQIBS.
• You can check the JSON values in each API log entry for troubleshooting purposes.
• Use the information in the API log to create or refine API filters to ensure incidents are created correctly based on the API payloads received.
• Callgoose SQIBS creates incidents according to your API filter configuration, giving you full control over how alerts from different services trigger incidents and alerts for your support team or automation processes.

3. Configuring InternetVista to Send JSON Payloads

Follow these steps to set up monitoring, alerts, and webhook integrations in InternetVista, ensuring that the JSON payloads generated match the required format for Callgoose SQIBS.

3.1 Setting Up Webhook in InternetVista

• Log in to InternetVista:
• Access InternetVista and log in using your credentials.
• Navigate to Media Settings:
• From the homepage, click on the Media tab in the navigation menu.
• Select New Media.
• Choose Webhook as Media Type:
• In the Media Type dropdown, choose Webhook.
• Enter Webhook Details:
• Alias: Provide a descriptive name for the webhook (e.g., “Callgoose SQIBS
• Endpoint URL: Paste the endpoint URL provided by Callgoose SQIBS.
• Note: The final API endpoint may vary based on authentication and additional URL parameters. Refer to Callgoose SQIBS API Documentation to confirm your endpoint.
• Active: Ensure the "Active" checkbox is selected.
• Set Request Method and Headers:
• Submit Method: Select POST as the method.
• Request Header: Paste the following value in the header field: Content-Type=application/json
• Save the Webhook:
• Click on the Save button to finalize the webhook configuration.

3.2 Setting Up Monitor in InternetVista

• Navigate to Applications:
• Go to the Applications tab in InternetVista.
• Create a New Application:
• Click on New Application.
• Select Check Type:
• Choose the type of check you want to perform, such as Websites, Databases, or other monitoring types.
• Configure Monitoring Settings:
• Enter the details for the service or application you want to monitor.
• For example, if monitoring a website, provide the website URL and any specific monitoring parameters.
• Save the Application:
• Once configured, click Save to activate the monitoring application.

3.3 Finalizing and Testing

• Validate the Integration:
• Trigger the alert condition manually if possible to verify that the correct JSON payload is sent to Callgoose SQIBS.

4. Configuring Callgoose SQIBS

4.1 Create API Filters in Callgoose SQIBS

To effectively manage incidents from InternetVista alerts, configure API filters with default values set to null for all key fields. This ensures the filters can gracefully handle empty payloads or those with a Content-Type other than application/json.

4.1.1 Integration Templates

If you see an InternetVista integration template in the "Select Integration Template" dropdown in the API filter settings, you can use it to automatically add the necessary Trigger and Resolve filters along with other values. Since InternetVista sends empty payloads, the fields within the template may default to empty.

4.1.2 Manually Add/Edit the Filter

• Trigger Filter (For Creating Incidents):
• Payload JSON Key: null
• Key Value Contains: null
• Map Incident With: null
• Incident Title From: null
• Incident Description From: null
• Resolve Filter (For Resolving Incidents):
• Payload JSON Key: null
• Key Value Contains: null
• Incident Mapped With: null

Refer to the API Filter Instructions and FAQ for more details.

4.2 Finalizing Setup

• Save the API Filters:
• Ensure that the filters are correctly configured and saved in Callgoose SQIBS

5. Testing and Validation

5.1 Triggering Alerts

• Simulate a Monitoring Alert:
• Trigger a condition in InternetVista that causes an alert (e.g., Manually make the website or server offline).
• Verify that an incident is created in Callgoose SQIBS with the correct information.

6. Security Considerations

• API Security: Ensure that the Callgoose SQIBS API endpoint is correctly configured and that the API token is securely stored and used.
• InternetVista Permissions: Confirm that the webhook in InternetVista has appropriate permissions to send alerts and data to Callgoose SQIBS.

7. Troubleshooting

• No Incident Created: If no incident is created, verify that the webhook URL in InternetVista is correct and that the JSON payload structure matches the API filters configured in Callgoose SQIBS.
• Incident Not Resolved: Ensure that the resolve filter in Callgoose SQIBS is correctly configured and that the JSON payload sent by InternetVista matches the expected structure.

8. Conclusion

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of how to integrate InternetVista with Callgoose SQIBS for effective incident management. By following the steps outlined, you can ensure that alerts from InternetVista are automatically reflected as incidents in Callgoose SQIBS, with proper resolution tracking when the issues are resolved.

For further customization or advanced use cases, refer to the official documentation for both InternetVista and Callgoose SQIBS:

• InternetVista Documentation
• Callgoose SQIBS API Token Documentation
• Callgoose SQIBS API Endpoint Documentation
• API Filter Instructions and FAQ
• How to Send API

This documentation will guide you through the integration process, ensuring that your incidents are managed effectively within Callgoose SQIBS based on real-time alerts from InternetVista.