Cannot use Responder or Tags in API to Create an ops genie alert

Dietrich Lehr

Using powershell to create an alert in OpsGenie via the API, and I keep getting "The remote server returned an error: (422) Unprocessable Entity"

This only happens when I attempt to use the tags or responders fields in the body. If I leave those out, I can successfully create alerts. What am I doing wrong with the formatting??

$body = {            
message     = "MESSAGE TITLE HERE"            
description = "DESCRIPTION HERE"            
priority    = "P5"            
alias       = "XXXXXXX"            
tags        = "tag"            
responders  = {                
    name = "TEAMNAMEHERE"                
    type = "team"            
}        
} | ConvertTo-Json

If I remove the tags and responders fields, this works perfectly.

Allen Barnard_mlfaqi

Hi good morning,

It would appear that tags and responders are being defined as incorrect data types, "tags" should be an array that accepts a list of values, while responders should be an array that accepts a list of objects.

It also would appear that you are creating a lot of unnecessary work for yourself by first constructing the payload $body as a PsObject then converting it to a JSON. The most efficient method would be to store your JSON (in a JSON format) and store it in $body as a literal string, please see my example below.  Please note that no conversion is needed $body already contains a valid JSON

$body = '{
"message": "MESSAGE TITLE HERE",
"description":"DESCRIPTION HERE",
"alias": "XXXXXXX",
"priority":"P5",
"responders":[{"id":"TEAMNAMEHERE", "type":"team"}],
"tags": ["Tag1","Tag2"]
}'