Third party systems integrating with CloudStack should be able to publish custom alerts to the CS. Existing alerts might not be enough for a particular application purposes, and adding new one while utilizing the existing CS Alert notification system, can be quite useful.
Currently there is no way to publish an alert through the web API; it can be done only by direct calls to the AlertManager. So the proposal would be - add a new API (with ROOT admin permissions) allowing to publish the alerts to CS system. Jira ticket ref is created [1]. I'll send the update with FS link if nobody objects on the proposal. Thank you, Alena. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-5261
