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POST/api/v1/monitoring/alerts

Create an alert rule

Create alert with threshold, anomaly, trend, or absence condition.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/settings/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "name": "string",
  "condition": {
    "type": "threshold",
    "metric": "string"
  },
  "severity": "critical",
  "cooldownMs": 0
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "name",
        "condition",
        "severity"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "condition": {
          "type": "object",
          "required": [
            "type",
            "metric"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "type": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "threshold",
                "anomaly",
                "trend",
                "absence"
              ]
            },
            "metric": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "severity": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "critical",
            "warning",
            "info"
          ]
        },
        "cooldownMs": {
          "type": "integer"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Response

All status codes

201Alert rule created
400Bad Request — MISSING_ORG_ID.
401Unauthorized — no valid credential was presented (AUTH_REQUIRED).
403Forbidden — the credential is valid but lacks the API-key scope, member role, or plan entitlement this operation requires.
429Too Many Requests — the per-key or per-organization rate limit was exceeded. Honour the Retry-After header.
500Internal Server Error.

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/monitoring/alerts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "name": "string", "condition": { "type": "threshold", "metric": "string" }, "severity": "critical", "cooldownMs": 0 }'

TypeScript

// The TypeScript SDK (@evalguard/sdk) exposes TYPED methods — runEval,
// getEval, runSecurityScan, checkFirewall, … — not a generic request().
// For an arbitrary endpoint, call it directly:

const res = await fetch("https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/monitoring/alerts", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "name": "string",
    "condition": {
      "type": "threshold",
      "metric": "string"
    },
    "severity": "critical",
    "cooldownMs": 0
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.json());

Python

# The Python SDK (pip install evalguardai) exposes TYPED methods on
# EvalGuardClient — run_eval, get_eval, … — not a generic request().
# For an arbitrary endpoint, call it directly:

import os
import requests

headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['EVALGUARD_API_KEY']}"}
headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/monitoring/alerts",
    headers=headers,
    json={
    "name": "string",
    "condition": {
        "type": "threshold",
        "metric": "string"
    },
    "severity": "critical",
    "cooldownMs": 0
},
)
print(response.status_code, response.json())

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"name":"string","condition":{"type":"threshold","metric":"string"},"severity":"critical","cooldownMs":0}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/monitoring/alerts", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401403429500

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