Google Alert Center
Version: 1.0
Updated: Dec 12, 2023
Google Alert Center relies on the Google Workspace Alert Center API which empowers administrators to efficiently manage alerts on issues affecting the domain.
Actions
- Create Alert Feedback (Notification) - Creates new feedback for an alert.
- Delete Alerts (Notification) - Marks the specified alerts for deletion. An alert that has been marked for deletion is removed from Alert Center after 30 days.
- Get Alert (Enrichment) - Gets the specified alert.
- List Alert Feedback (Enrichment) - Lists all the feedback for an alert.
- List Alerts (Enrichment) - Lists the alerts.
- Undelete Alerts (Notification) - Restores, or "undeletes", an alert that was marked for deletion within the past 30 days.
Google Alert Center Configuration
To create a Service Account in Google Workspace and generate the JSON file needed to configure the Google Alert Center integration, follow these steps:
- Log in to the Google Cloud portal.
- Select a Google Cloud project (or create a new one).
- Go to the API&Services > Credentials page.
- Click CREATE CREDENTIALS and select Service Account.
- Enter a Service account name to display in the Google Cloud console. The Google Cloud console generates a service account ID based on this name.
- Optional: Enter a description of the service account.
- Skip two optional grant permissions steps and click Done to complete the service account creation.
- Click on the generated service account to open the details.
- Under the KEYS tab, Click ADD KEY and choose Create new key.
- Click on CREATE (make sure JSON is selected).
- The JSON file is downloaded. Make sure you save it in a safe place.
- Enable the Google Workspace Alert Center API for the project at https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/alertcenter.googleapis.com.
- Go to https://admin.google.com/ac/owl/domainwidedelegation to open the Domain-Wide delegation settings in the Google Admin portal.
- Click on Add new.
- In the Client ID field, provide the client ID from the JSON file.
- In the OAuth scopes (comma-delimited) field, provide the following scopes: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/apps.alerts'
- Click Authorize.
Configure Google Alert Center in Automation Service and Cloud SOAR
Before you can use this automation integration, you must configure its authentication settings so that the product you're integrating with can communicate with Sumo Logic. For general guidance, see Configure Authentication for Automation Integrations.
How to open the integration's configuration dialog
- Access App Central and install the integration. (You can configure at installation, or after installation with the following steps.)
- Go to the Integrations page.
Classic UI. In the main Sumo Logic menu, select Automation and then select Integrations in the left nav bar.
New UI. In the main Sumo Logic menu, select Automation > Integrations. You can also click the Go To... menu at the top of the screen and select Integrations. - Select the installed integration.
- Hover over the resource name and click the Edit button that appears.
In the configuration dialog, enter information from the product you're integrating with. When done, click TEST to test the configuration, and click SAVE to save the configuration.
- Label. The desired name for the resource.
- User Service Account JSON. Provide the content of the JSON file generated in the previous steps. Open the file and copy-paste the whole content in the field.
- Admin User Email. The e-mail address of an admin user.
For information about Google Alert Center, see Google Alert Center documentation.
Change Log
- December 12, 2023 (v1.0) - First upload