alarm_alert

An Insights alarm was triggered, or returned to normal.

Fields

13

The table lists every field of the body. You can validate a delivery against this event’s JSON Schema.

Field	Type	Description
event required	"alarm_alert"
message required	string	A one-line summary of the event, as notifications show it.
actor	object	The person who caused the event. Absent when Honeybadger, or an API token with no user, did.
actor.id required	integer
actor.email required	string
actor.name required	string | null
alarm required	object	The Insights alarm the event is about.
alarm.id required	string | null
alarm.name required	string | null
alarm.state required	string | null	Allowed values: initial, alarm, ok, null.
alarm.created_at required	date-time
alarm.url required	uri
alarm.details_url required	uri	The same as url.

Example

{
  "event": "alarm_alert",
  "message": "[Billing API] ALERT: Checkout errors is in alert status",
  "alarm": {
    "name": "Checkout errors",
    "state": "alarm",
    "created_at": "2026-10-21T12:36:26.448717Z",
    "id": "opticon-observer-root-id",
    "url": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/85736/insights/alarms/opticon-observer-root-id",
    "details_url": "https://app.honeybadger.io/projects/85736/insights/alarms/opticon-observer-root-id"
  }
}