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convertCustomInfoToTags

A Workflow Engine function that works specifically with an alert export to Moogsoft Observability Cloud (MOC), and “flattens” a Moogsoft Enterprise custom_info object into a single-depth key:value tags object suitable for ingestion by MOC Events or the Create Your Own Integration (CYOI) API.

  • All custom_info tags are flattened to a key:value pair.

  • All values must be strings or integers

    Source values in custom_info that are arrays (lists) are converted to strings.

    The only exception to this rule is a custom_info.labels array—this remains an array.

  • The flattened tags object is copied to the workflowContext for use by subsequent actions.

This function is available as a feature of the Add-ons v2.3.5 download and later.

This function is available for event, alert, and Situation workflows.

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Arguments

Workflow Engine function convertCustomInfoToTags has no arguments.

Example

Given a deeply nested custom_info source object:

{ 
  "key1" : "value 1",
  "key2" : {
    "key4" : "value 4",
    "key5" : {
      "key6" : "value 6"
    }
  },
  "key3" : [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ],
  "labels" : [ "ip=10.0.0.1", "device=Router"],
  "key7" : 99
}

The flattened workflowContext.tags object is:

{ 
  "key1" : "value 1"
  "key2.key4" : "value 4",
  "key2.key5.key6" : "value 6",
  "key3" : "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]",
  "labels" : [ "ip=10.0.0.1", "device=Router"],
  "key7" : 99
}

NOTES

  • key3 had an array as a value and, after flattening this array, key3 is now a stringified version of this array.

  • labels remained an array after conversion.