Escalate an Alert

You can escalate one or more alerts at a time to create an event that can be tracked by an external ticketing system.

1. Select an alert by clicking on empty space in the alert row.
   The Alerts UI displays a panel listing the status of the alert all available data in Elasticsearch about the alert.

   Alerts Information Panel

   
   
   

   The current alert status is highlighted.

   	Note
   	To manage more than one alert at a time, click the check boxes at the end of alert rows, then select the action you want to perform from the ACTIONS menu.

2. Click Escalate.
   
   HCP writes the event to a Kafka escalation topic. An external orchestration software can pick up the event from the topic and use the API to create an incident or append to an existing incident.
3. You can also add a comment to this action by clicking (Comment button), entering your comment in the Comments field, and clicking ADD COMMENT.