I've looked through the docs and can't really find an answer if this is possible. I want a watcher job to fire every 5 minutes to hit an API. First of all it must hit the API to gain an authorization token, then once it has the token it needs to use it in a subsequential api call to get what I nee…

That's pretty advanced for watcher to do, so it's not possible. It's mostly a tool to query Elasticsearch that sends out a request to a few configured options. You'll have to use zabbix for that.

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runtman (Anthony Cleaves) December 2, 2021, 9:33pm 3

Yeh, I've gone ahead and made it in Zabbix. Thanks for replying

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