As a substitute of calling the Meraki API to search for important community adjustments, why not have Meraki ship alerts utilizing webhooks? Ship occasions, as they occur, to your community monitoring and operations providers by having Meraki name them as an alternative.
In case you are utilizing an present utility, you would possibly wrestle sending a webhook on to it. You’ll typically want to regulate the message format and authentication to match.
That is the place webhook payload templates are available in. This new functionality lets you outline the form of the webhook request, providing you with whole flexibility in matching the vacation spot service with out further middleware.
Taking this concept a step additional, we regularly want a template for these widespread providers so why not construct and share these for everyone to make use of?
What are Webhook integrations?
Webhook integrations are options leveraging payload templates with third occasion providers. Starting with the most well-liked messaging providers, Meraki has included Webex, Slack, and Microsoft Groups templates by default.
As well as, a Meraki GitHub repository has been created to host group supported templates, corresponding to PagerDuty, DataDog, Jira, Line and extra, enabling a brand new ecosystem of options.
Backside line: Webhook integrations assist your online business and workforce achieve success – and meet your SLAs with out rising value.
- Improve community visibility utilizing acquainted instruments
○ Attain a wider viewers by simply integrating with providers like Webex, Slack, MS Groups and lots of others - Cut back complexity
○ No additional tools or providers required - IoT & Community Automation options
○ Ship a digital camera snapshot when movement is detected to the Safety Group’s Webex area
○ Ship a PagerDuty message when moisture is detected within the server room
○ Log door entry metrics to Splunk
○ Create a Jira ticket when a tool has turn out to be unreachable
○ Set off an motion with the push of an Meraki MT button
○ There are such a lot of prospects! What options are you able to think about?
The right way to get began
Get began now by logging into the Meraki Dashboard and organising an alert webhook to your favourite chat area.
Browse these examples with Webex Adaptive Playing cards utilizing Customized Payload Templates
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