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Hubot integration for Splunk On-Call 🔗

Hubot is your company’s robot. Install it in your Splunk On-Call timeline to improve employee efficiency.

The Hubot - Splunk On-Call Adapter allows your Hubot to join your Splunk On-Call timeline. You can then address Hubot with timeline chat messages in the usual way. After giving your Hubot instance a name (“Hubot” in the example), you can then address it from the timeline with or without an @.

A chat message log between a user and Hubot.

Configuration 🔗

  1. In Splunk On-Call, select Integrations, then Hubot.

  2. If the integration isn’t active, select the Enable Integration button to generate your endpoint URL. Replace the $routing_key section with the actual routing key you intend to use. To view or configure route keys in Splunk On-Call, select Alert Behavior, then Route Keys.

    The Hubot integration in Splunk On-Call. The menu displays a routing key and the Hubot's name.

  3. If you have not already, install Hubot according to these instructions: https://hubot.github.com/docs/.

  4. Install the Splunk On-Call adapter directly from github:

    npm install git://github.com/victorops/hubot-victorops.git

  5. Your Hubot requires a login key to connect to Splunk On-Call. Your Hubot key is available at the “Hubot” link of your Splunk On-Call Integrations page in step 1. To configure the key, set the following environment variable:

    export HUBOT_VICTOROPS_KEY=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

  6. Add the Splunk On-Call adapter to your Hubot’s dependencies in package.json:

    ...
"dependencies": {
  "hubot-victorops": ">=0.0.2",
  ...
}
...

  7. Run Hubot with the Splunk On-Call adapter:

    bin/hubot --adapter victorops

  8. You might have to remove the empty hubot-scripts.json file and add a coffee-script dependency. To do so, see . Additionally, you can remove the “hubot-heroku-keepalive” line from both external-scripts.json and dependencies in package.json to avoid an aesthetic error message.

Hubot and the Rules Engine 🔗

You can annotate Hubot commands directly to take automated actions.

To accomplish this, you need an additional Hubot script from GitHub .

Add an annotation with the name “HUBOT COMMAND” to call Hubot in your program.

An annotation for Hubot. When SERVICEDESK matches HTTP, the integration annotates an alert with a Hubot command.

This page was last updated on Jul 02, 2024.