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Jira and Jira Service Desk

FortiMonitor's Jira and Jira Service Desk integrations allow you to post incidents as issues to your Jira and Jira Service Desk environments.

Set up the integration

The integration can be setup via the Integrations page.

  1. From the navigation menu, select Teams & Activity > Integrations.

  2. Choose whether you want to post issues in Jira or Jira Service desk then select Configure.

  3. Select Authorize to allow FortiMonitor access to your Jira or Jira service desk environment.

  4. On the next screen, select Accept.

  5. Configure your Jira or Jira service desk integration. The configuration options are detailed in the following table:

Field

Description

Projects

Select which project the Jira or Jira Service Desk will be created when an incident occurs.

Issue type

Select the type of issue to be created.

Values:

  • New feature

  • Story

  • Task

  • Support

  • Bug

Close incident in Jira upon incident resolution

Select this option if you want Jira or Jira Service Desk to automatically close issues once an incident is resolved.

Close Type

Enter the name of the transition to apply when an incident is resolved.

JSON Payload

The customizable JSON payload sent to the Jira API. You can create a payload for the following actions:

  • Incident creation – A ticket is created in Jira whenever an incident is detected.

  • Incident closure – The ticket is closed once the incident has been resolved.

6. Select Save Integration.

7. Go to the Configured Integrations tab to verify your Jira or Jira Service Desk integration.

8. To set up notifications, configure the integration's Alert Timeline.

JSON payload

Incident creation

The following JSON payload is sent to Jira whenever an incident is detected. See Parameters for details on how to customize the payload.

Incident closure

The following JSON payload is sent to Jira once an incident is resolved. See Parameters for details on how to customize the payload.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

$trigger

The type of event that triggered this payload (outage, ack, broadcast, clear)

$fqdn

The Fully qualified domain name of the server experiencing the incident/clear.

$name

Name of the server experiencing the incident/clear.

$timestamp

UTC timestamp of when the incident/clear occurred.

$event

The type of event, either incident event or clear event.

$outage_id

The ID number of the associated incident.

$services

For service incident: services experiencing the incident/clear.

$compound_service_id

The ID number of the compound metric affected.

$network_service_id

The ID number of the network service affected.

$resource

For resource anomalies: resources experiencing the anomaly/clear.

$server_resource_id

The ID number corresponding to the resource affected.

$items

Services experiencing the incident/clear or resources experiencing the anomaly/clear.

$reasons

The reasons for network service incidents or the details for anomalies.

$duration

The duration of incidents/anomalies which will be filled in on-clear.

$tags

The tags for the server.

$server_key

The server key for the server.

$server_id

The ID number of the server experiencing the incident/clear.

$partner_server_id

The partner server id for the server.

$item_type

The service type textkeys of the services experiencing the incident/clear, or plugin_textkey/resource_textkey combinations of the resources the experiencing the anomaly/clear, or the OID name of SNMP resources experiencing the outage/clear.

$custom_attribute

You can pass custom server attributes that are set on your servers. Use the attribute type as the key.

$alert_label

Alert label of the incident/anomaly.

$severity

The severity of the outage/anomaly, either critical or warning.

$metric_tags

The tags for all of the metrics involved in the outage.

$location

A comma-separated list of the primary monitoring probe names for all network services affected.

Jira and Jira Service Desk

FortiMonitor's Jira and Jira Service Desk integrations allow you to post incidents as issues to your Jira and Jira Service Desk environments.

Set up the integration

The integration can be setup via the Integrations page.

  1. From the navigation menu, select Teams & Activity > Integrations.

  2. Choose whether you want to post issues in Jira or Jira Service desk then select Configure.

  3. Select Authorize to allow FortiMonitor access to your Jira or Jira service desk environment.

  4. On the next screen, select Accept.

  5. Configure your Jira or Jira service desk integration. The configuration options are detailed in the following table:

Field

Description

Projects

Select which project the Jira or Jira Service Desk will be created when an incident occurs.

Issue type

Select the type of issue to be created.

Values:

  • New feature

  • Story

  • Task

  • Support

  • Bug

Close incident in Jira upon incident resolution

Select this option if you want Jira or Jira Service Desk to automatically close issues once an incident is resolved.

Close Type

Enter the name of the transition to apply when an incident is resolved.

JSON Payload

The customizable JSON payload sent to the Jira API. You can create a payload for the following actions:

  • Incident creation – A ticket is created in Jira whenever an incident is detected.

  • Incident closure – The ticket is closed once the incident has been resolved.

6. Select Save Integration.

7. Go to the Configured Integrations tab to verify your Jira or Jira Service Desk integration.

8. To set up notifications, configure the integration's Alert Timeline.

JSON payload

Incident creation

The following JSON payload is sent to Jira whenever an incident is detected. See Parameters for details on how to customize the payload.

Incident closure

The following JSON payload is sent to Jira once an incident is resolved. See Parameters for details on how to customize the payload.

Parameters

Parameter

Description

$trigger

The type of event that triggered this payload (outage, ack, broadcast, clear)

$fqdn

The Fully qualified domain name of the server experiencing the incident/clear.

$name

Name of the server experiencing the incident/clear.

$timestamp

UTC timestamp of when the incident/clear occurred.

$event

The type of event, either incident event or clear event.

$outage_id

The ID number of the associated incident.

$services

For service incident: services experiencing the incident/clear.

$compound_service_id

The ID number of the compound metric affected.

$network_service_id

The ID number of the network service affected.

$resource

For resource anomalies: resources experiencing the anomaly/clear.

$server_resource_id

The ID number corresponding to the resource affected.

$items

Services experiencing the incident/clear or resources experiencing the anomaly/clear.

$reasons

The reasons for network service incidents or the details for anomalies.

$duration

The duration of incidents/anomalies which will be filled in on-clear.

$tags

The tags for the server.

$server_key

The server key for the server.

$server_id

The ID number of the server experiencing the incident/clear.

$partner_server_id

The partner server id for the server.

$item_type

The service type textkeys of the services experiencing the incident/clear, or plugin_textkey/resource_textkey combinations of the resources the experiencing the anomaly/clear, or the OID name of SNMP resources experiencing the outage/clear.

$custom_attribute

You can pass custom server attributes that are set on your servers. Use the attribute type as the key.

$alert_label

Alert label of the incident/anomaly.

$severity

The severity of the outage/anomaly, either critical or warning.

$metric_tags

The tags for all of the metrics involved in the outage.

$location

A comma-separated list of the primary monitoring probe names for all network services affected.