[Hawkular-dev] IFTTT alert notifications

[Jiri Kremser]

Hello,
  if you don't know the ifttt, it's simple site where you can define a trigger condition and then some action if the condition is met. It's a closed source software (no need to pay though), but the number of possible actions is enormous. I'd say it's industrial standard for this kind of problems. They provide a way to trigger the action manually by sending http POST to their api. 

It's described here:

https://ifttt.com/maker


The post request looks like this: 

`curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"value1":"1","value2":"2","value3":"foo"}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/sdf/with/key/aabbccddeeffgghh`

where sdf is the name of the event (must be defined via their website), aabbcc.. is the secret token for the user and valueN:n in the json is the arbitrary data you can then use inside the actions. For instance in the subject of the email or whatever the action allows.

So, if we add a new alert notification that can do such a post request we can get for free all these actions:

https://ifttt.com/recipes/do

Again, the if-condition-then-action rule must be defined via their website (if condition is called 'maker' in this case), the actions use the oauth so it asks for permission if needed. For instance I use it for pushbullet notifications so It asked pushbulet "auth api" 

wdyt?

jk