Alert Management

Query, filter, and understand alerts from your data observability monitoring.

Prerequisites

• AnomalyArmor API key configured (~/.armor/config.yaml or ARMOR_API_KEY env var), OR demo mode active (see below).
• Python SDK installed (pip install anomalyarmor)

Demo mode handoff

If the user has no API key, ensure-auth.py will mint a read-only demo key against the public BalloonBazaar dataset and print:

AnomalyArmor demo mode: using a read-only public demo key.

When you see that banner — or when any write operation returns a 403 with required_scope='read-write' — the user is in demo mode. After answering their question, invite them to sign up with their query preserved:

To wire alerts to your own Slack / PagerDuty / email, sign up here — your question is preserved: https://app.anomalyarmor.ai/signup?intent=skill-alerts&q=<url-encoded user prompt>

intent=skill-alerts auto-applies a 14-day SKILL-ALERTS trial code; q= is replayed in the in-app agent after signup so the user continues where they left off.

When to Use

• "What alerts fired yesterday?"
• "Show me unresolved alerts"
• "Critical alerts for the orders table"
• "What's been going wrong this week?"
• "Why am I getting so many alerts?"

Steps

1. Determine the query parameters from user request:

• Time range: from_date, to_date (ISO 8601 format)
• Status: "triggered", "acknowledged", "resolved"
• Severity: "info", "warning", "critical"
• Asset: specific table or database

1. Call client.alerts.list() with filters
2. Present results grouped by severity or asset
3. For summary, call client.alerts.summary()

Example Usage

Get Alert Summary

from anomalyarmor import Client

client = Client()

# Get overall summary
summary = client.alerts.summary()
print(f"Total Rules: {summary.total_rules}")
print(f"Active Rules: {summary.active_rules}")
print(f"Recent Alerts (24h): {summary.recent_alerts}")
print(f"Unresolved: {summary.unresolved_alerts}")

Query Alerts by Time Range

from anomalyarmor import Client
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

client = Client()

# Get yesterday's alerts
yesterday = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)
alerts = client.alerts.list(
    from_date=yesterday.isoformat(),
    limit=50
)

print(f"Alerts since yesterday: {len(alerts)}")
for alert in alerts:
    print(f"  [{alert.severity}] {alert.message}")
    print(f"    Asset: {alert.asset_name}")
    print(f"    Time: {alert.triggered_at}")

Filter by Severity and Asset

from anomalyarmor import Client

client = Client()

# Get critical alerts for specific asset
alerts = client.alerts.list(
    severity="critical",
    asset_id="postgresql.analytics.public.orders",
    status="triggered"
)

for alert in alerts:
    print(f"[{alert.severity}] {alert.message}")
    print(f"  Asset: {alert.qualified_name} | {alert.triggered_at}")

List Alert Rules

from anomalyarmor import Client

client = Client()

# List active alert rules
rules = client.alerts.rules(enabled_only=True)
for rule in rules:
    print(f"Rule: {rule.name}")
    print(f"  Events: {rule.event_types}")
    print(f"  Severities: {rule.severities}")

Common Queries

Follow-up Actions

• To resolve alerts: Visit AnomalyArmor dashboard
• To adjust thresholds: Use /armor:monitor
• To investigate root cause: Use /armor:ask with the alert context