When POSTing an alert, how to set "Deploy Environment"?

[John Young]

Hi, Compass!

I'm asking my QA Automation team to POST an alert directly to the affected component when that component fails its hourly health check.

I was able to _HAND ROLL_ an alert using Postman, and this is the example I was able to make:

This is pretty good!

This alert is _NOT_ filtered to a particular environment. That is, you can see that "Deployment Environment" is set to "Development." If I change it to any other value, that alert still appears.

* Change to "Staging" <-- alert still appears
* Change to "Production" <-- alert still shown

Is there a "magic" value I should be using so that the alert will be filtered to only one of the "Deployment Environment" values?

For what it's worth, here's what I used right now, under "event >> Alert":

```

"extraProperties": {

                    "environment": "dev"

                }```

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @John Young ,

I'm guessing you've been using this API call to post/create an event: POST Send event?

Based on the docs, you could try using deployment / deploymentProperties / environment / category

So, basically, we're talking about this:

"event": {
   "deployment": {
      "displayName": "<string">
      ....
      "environment": {
        "category": "DEVELOPMENT"
...

Note that I haven't tested this out, but a few of my colleagues are building something now, so I can check with them if they can try to see if it works.

Cheers,
Tobi

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Actually, scratch that... 

I just realized that this most likely won't work. 🫤

I'll ask the team to try to simulate this, but I didn't manage to find any official docs about this particular thing. You could check with the Dev Community if they have any insights about that.

[John Young]

Got it, thank you for the reply! Given that we're not using the "DEploy Environment" pulldown for much right now, I don't think I'm gonna dive _too_ deep -- I just wanted to know if I was overlooking something simple, which it seems like I haven't.  I appreciate the collaboration.