Cloud Monitoring - Incident Close Notification

Google Cloud Cloud Foundations & Onboarding
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Hello,

I’m working on retrieving incident history for incidents generated by Cloud Monitoring. I discovered that there are no available APIs for accessing incident history. As a workaround, I’ve set up a Pub/Sub topic and a BigQuery subscription to store this data.

During my testing of this workflow to retrieve incident data, I noticed that I don’t receive any notifications when I manually close an incident. Is there a way to receive notifications when manually closing an incident as well? Thanks for looking into my question!

Best regards,

Yong-Jin

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Greetings @ylee1212 ,

Unfortunately, you are correct that there is no API to manage incidents in Cloud Monitoring. There is currently a feature request, Manage incidents via API, that you can “+1”.

Cloud Monitoring does not natively support notifications for manual incident closures. You could create a Cloud Function to monitor when an incident is closed and then publish a message to Pub/Sub.

I hope this helps. Thank you. :smiley:

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Hello Lawrence!

Thanks for answering my question!

So without any API to manage/pull metadata on the incidents, is there a way for me to get an event where an incident is closed and publish a message to Pub/Sub? I am interested in utilizing the solution you mentioned, but I am not sure how I can get the triggering event on manual incident closures. :sweat_smile: Thanks again!