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Webhook

You can create a custom webhook that receives Lacework alert notifications from a Lacework alert channel and forwards those alerts to another application.

Overview

After you configure a Lacework webhook alert channel, when Lacework generates an alert, it automatically sends that alert to the URL endpoint you configure in the webhook channel. Lacework generates a new alert by sending an HTTP POST request with the following Lacework payload as shown in the following example.

{
"event_title": "Compliance Changed",
"event_link": "https://myLacework.lacework.net/ui/investigate/Event/120884?startTime=1565370000000&endTime=1565373600000",
"lacework_account": "myLacework",
"event_source": "AzureCompliance",
"event_summary":"Azure Account myLacework Pay-As-You-Go: Azure_CIS_2_1 Ensure that standard pricing tier is selected changed from compliant to non-compliant",
"event_timestamp":"09 Aug 2019 17:00 GMT",
"event_type": "Compliance",
"event_id": "120884",
"event_severity": "4"
}

The following table describes Lacework payload elements.

Field Name Description
event_title The title of the Lacework event.
event_link The link to the event in the Lacework Console.
lacework_account The Lacework application where the event occurred. The myLacework part of the Lacework application URL: myLacework.lacework.net.
event_source The source of the event or where the event occurred.
event_summary A summary of the event including a description of why the event occurred.
event_timestamp The timestamp of when the event occurred.
event_type The type (or category) of the event.
event_id The Lacework ID for the event.
event_severity The severity of the event between numbers 1 and 5. The number 1 is the highest severity and 5 is the lowest severity.

Create a webhook to receive the HTTP POST request from Lacework and then perform some action. For example, your webhook could read the payload from the Lacework HTTP POST request, parse the properties from the incoming payload, generate another alert with the properties in a different format, and send that alert to another application such as Opsgenie.

Create a Lacework Alert Channel

After you create a webhook to receive the HTTP POST request from Lacework, return to the Lacework Console and complete the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Lacework Console with a Lacework user that has administrative privileges.
  2. Navigate to Settings > Alert Channels.
  3. Click + Create New.
  4. Select Webhook.
  5. Name the channel.
  6. In the Webhook URL, enter the URL of your webhook that will receive the HTTP POST request from Lacework. If the third-party that is receiving the HTTP POST request requires an API token, enter the API Token as part of the URL, for example:  
    https://mySampleEnv.live.dynatrace.com/apiZv l/time?api-token=abcdefjhij1234567890
  7. Click Save.