{"slug":"auvik-alerts","title":"Auvik Alerts","summary":"Auvik alerts: severity tiers, status lifecycle, dismissal semantics, and the common alertName patterns that show up in MSP NOC queues.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-21T18:26:33.886527Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins","stars":46,"forks":26,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-09-21T16:51:26Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: \"Auvik Alerts\"\ndescription: &gt;\nAuvik alerts: severity tiers, status lifecycle, dismissal semantics, and\nthe common alertName patterns that show up in MSP NOC queues.\nwhen_to_use: &gt;-\nWhen listing, triaging, dismissing, or investigating Auvik alerts. Use when: auvik alert, auvik\ntriage, auvik dismiss, auvik severity, auvik noc, auvik down, or auvik flap.</h2>\n<h1>Auvik Alerts</h1>\n<p>Auvik alerts are condition-based notifications generated when a monitored entity (device, interface, network, service) crosses a threshold or changes state. This skill covers the severity model, the status lifecycle, and the dismissal semantics that confuse new users.</p>\n<h2>Anti-triggers</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An alert raised by an endpoint's RMM agent</strong> — Auvik alerts come\nfrom SNMP and ICMP polling of network infrastructure, never from\nsoftware running on a workstation or server; use <code>atera</code> or\n<code>ncentral</code>.</li>\n<li><strong>A public website or endpoint being down</strong> — that is external\nuptime checking, not internal polling; use <code>betterstack-monitors</code>.</li>\n<li><strong>Conditions a site collector raised about LAN devices</strong> — different\nproduct, different alert engine; use <code>domotz-alerts</code>.</li>\n<li><strong>Who gets paged, and when it escalates</strong> — Auvik has no on-call\nmodel; use <code>pagerduty-oncall</code> or <code>rootly-oncall</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Tools</h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Tool</th>\n<th>Use For</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>auvik_alerts_list</code></td>\n<td>List alerts, filterable by status / severity / tenant</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>auvik_alerts_get</code></td>\n<td>Full record for one alert</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>auvik_alerts_dismiss</code></td>\n<td>Acknowledge and hide an alert</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>Severity</h2>\n<p>Severity values, in increasing order:</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Severity</th>\n<th>Meaning</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>info</code></td>\n<td>Informational - state change, no impact</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>warning</code></td>\n<td>Worth attention but not service-affecting</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>critical</code></td>\n<td>Service affecting; respond now</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>emergency</code></td>\n<td>Highest tier; usually a managed infrastructure device down</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>Default triage filter is <code>severity &gt;= warning</code> - <code>info</code> alerts drown the queue and are rarely actionable.</p>\n<h2>Status</h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Status</th>\n<th>Meaning</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>open</code></td>\n<td>Currently active</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>dismissed</code></td>\n<td>Acknowledged by a user; hidden from the default UI view</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>closed</code></td>\n<td>Condition cleared on its own</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p><code>closed</code> is the only \"the problem is fixed\" state. <code>dismissed</code> is \"a human decided not to look at this\" - the underlying condition may or may not still hold.</p>\n<h2>Dismissal Semantics</h2>\n<p><strong>Dismissing an alert does not fix the underlying condition.</strong></p>\n<p>Auvik's alert engine evaluates conditions on a recurring schedule. If you dismiss an alert and the condition still holds when the engine next evaluates, a new alert (with a new ID) will appear. This is the source of the \"we keep dismissing the same alert\" pattern in noisy tenants.</p>\n<p>Three appropriate uses of dismissal:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Known noise</strong> - the condition is a confirmed false-positive for this tenant (e.g. link flap on a known-flaky access port on an unmanaged switch).</li>\n<li><strong>Already-acknowledged</strong> - someone has already opened a ticket and is working it; dismissal removes it from the queue.</li>\n<li><strong>Transient that cleared</strong> - the condition cleared between alert fire and triage; dismissing closes the loop.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Two inappropriate uses:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Suppressing a real condition</strong> - if the device is genuinely down, dismissing buys you 15 minutes of silence before the next alert. Fix the device.</li>\n<li><strong>Bulk-clearing the queue</strong> - if the queue is too noisy, the alert rules need tuning, not dismissal.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Common alertName Patterns</h2>\n<p>The exact set varies, but in practice these dominate MSP NOC queues:</p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>alertName pattern</th>\n<th>Typical real cause</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>Device unreachable</code> / <code>Device down</code></td>\n<td>Real outage OR credentials problem</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>Interface down</code></td>\n<td>Link flap, cable, or upstream issue</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>Configuration changed</code></td>\n<td>Saved config differs from baseline</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>New device discovered</code></td>\n<td>Discovery picked up an unmanaged device</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>Backup failed</code></td>\n<td>Config backup attempt did not complete</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>High CPU</code> / <code>High memory</code></td>\n<td>Device under load</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>Interface utilization high</code></td>\n<td>Link saturation - cross-check via statistics</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>SNMP poller failure</code></td>\n<td>Credentials or ACL problem</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>Entity Resolution</h2>\n<p>Every alert references an <code>entityId</code> and <code>entityType</code>. To make a good triage decision, you almost always need to pull the entity:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>entityType = device</code> -&gt; <code>auvik_devices_get</code></li>\n<li><code>entityType = network</code> -&gt; <code>auvik_networks_get</code></li>\n<li><code>entityType = interface</code> -&gt; the parent device via <code>auvik_devices_get</code></li>\n</ul>\n<p>Critical alerts on <code>manageStatus = unmanaged</code> devices are almost always discovery noise, not real incidents.</p>\n<h2>Workflow</h2>\n<ol>\n<li><code>auvik_alerts_list status=open</code> (scope by tenant if needed).</li>\n<li>Order by severity desc, then detectedTime asc.</li>\n<li>For top-of-queue items, <code>auvik_alerts_get</code> for the full record.</li>\n<li>Resolve the entity for context.</li>\n<li>Decide: action, investigate, or dismiss-with-justification.</li>\n<li>Dismiss only after the user confirms.</li>\n</ol>\n<h2>Edge Cases</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Some alerts have empty <code>description</code> fields - the alertName plus the entity is the whole signal.</li>\n<li><code>detectedTime</code> is UTC.</li>\n<li>An alert can reference an entity that has since been deleted in Auvik - the entity fetch will 404. Treat this as evidence the alert is stale and a candidate for dismissal.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Related Skills</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"../devices/SKILL.md\">devices</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../networks/SKILL.md\">networks</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"../api-patterns/SKILL.md\">api-patterns</a></li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5318,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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