Create Alerting Email Templates with Coralogix

With Coralogix, you can easily create alerting email templates using our custom alert webhooks. These templates allow you to embed details from a log, metric, trace, or security event that triggered an event into your email subject or body, resulting in easier and more informative email notifications.

Overview

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up an alerting email template with Coralogix, using Zapier as a use case. It walks you through the process of setting up a Zapier account, creating a Zap with a trigger and an action, and configuring the webhook as a trigger. It then demonstrates how to catch a webhook from Coralogix and send an email as a response.

Set Up an Alerting Email Template

Create a Zap

STEP 1. Set up a Zapier Premium account.

STEP 3. From your Zapier dashboard, click + Create a Zap in the upper right-hand corner.

You will be asked to configure your Trigger and Action.

Configure the Trigger

STEP 1. Configure the Coralogix webhook as a Trigger.

Click Trigger.
Select Webhook in the bottom right-hand corner.
Choose an event. Select Catch Hook from the drop-down menu.
Click Continue.

STEP 2. Click Test to test the trigger.

STEP 3. You will be presented with a custom webhook URL. Click Copy to copy it to your clipboard.

Configure the Custom Webhook

STEP 1. In your Coralogix toolbar, navigate to DataFlow > Webhooks.

STEP 2. In the upper right hand corner, click + ADD NEW. In the dropdown menu, select Webhook (generic).

STEP 3. Define the webhook settings. Paste the webhook URL in the URL field.

STEP 4. Click SAVE.

Configure the Action

STEP 1. Return to your Zapier account to define the Action. The action in this case is sending an email.

Click Action.
Select the Action of choice. In this example, the user has chosen Gmail.
In the dropdown event menu, select Send an Email.
Click Continue.

STEP 2. Validate that the selected email is correct. Click Continue.

STEP 3. Define the Action settings.

In order for the Data fields to appear, revert back to your Coralogix webhook and click TEST CONFIG. Then, in your Zapier account, click TEST TRIGGER. Within seconds, you should receive confirmation of the webhook catch with all of the data from your customized alert.

Click Send Email in Gmail. Fill in the fields.
- To. Enter text or data. Use a parameter from the webhook or input a fixed addressee for the webhook.
- From. Select the email that you are using in this configuration.
- Subject (required). Input the parameters of your webhook. In the example below, service name has an alert with field keys, including team / application / subsystem / severity, etc. Note that you have the option of formatting the data.
- Body type. Select plain.
- Body (required). In the example below, error, trigger, alert URL, and service name are used. Text has been added as well.
- Attachment. If relevant, attach a Runbook, for example.