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Status Planned for future release
Categories APIs & SDKs
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 6, 2020

Retrieve Provisioner Activity details using API

The "Activity Services" APIs at /activities/ and /activityinstances/ are hardcoded to only act upon Portal activities. Attempting to use them to retrieve instance details of Provisioner activities results in 404 errors.

The API needs to be able to retrieve details of Provisioner activities. This would enable better reporting and alerting functionality:

1) Alerts/logging from Provisioner activities

Using "ActivityContext/ParticipantActivityKey" during activity execution would allow us to retrieve activity details (e.g. instance key, rollout name, etc) for logging or alerting from inside the activity. We can push status updates to external tools or to email alerts so Sponsor Admins can troubleshoot easily.

2) Integration with other reporting tools

We would like to integrate with other reporting tools to provide other views of PEM activity status, as well as pulling in data from other sources to combine with PEM activity status.

This would let us build a solution with a broad view of an onboarding solution, and not have to login to multiple places to manually view or export reports.

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Note that this functionality is already possible for Portal activities.

Other activity-related APIs are able to access Provisioner activities:

Activity Definition Services (/activitidefinitions/)

* Defaults to acting upon both PEM and PP activities, and has an input parameter "application" to specify which.

Participant Activity Services

* Requires activityInstanceKey, and can act upon both PEM and PP activities

This request is to allow the "Activity Services" APIs to access PP activities like these other APIs.

Thanks,

John

What is your industry? Non-Industry Specific
How will this idea be used?

Updating the APIs will enable better alerting, logging, and integration to external reporting tools.