Watcher - Alerts to call an External API

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Hi

Can you please point to any documentation on how to connect from watcher alerts to an external third party API, basically as http call that returns a set of parameters in JSON format. The alert then needs to be able to read the JSON values within the alert and send email notification.

Thanks

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See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/input-http.html

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thanks
Additionally, Is there a way to use edgegrid authentication for this. I dont see this in the documentation but wondering if there will be a workaround.

http --auth-type edgegrid -a <section_name>: :/<api_endpoint>