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Testing Notification Payloads

This example demonstrates how to send a test notification to Causely using a representative payload. It follows the same pattern as the examples above: reuse your token + GraphQL client helpers and then execute one mutation with a clear variables object.

Prerequisite

This example reuses the helper utilities defined in the Authentication and GraphQL Clients sections—fetching an access token, creating the GraphQL client, and sending a request with the post_query wrapper (CLI, Python, or Go). Keep those helpers in scope before running this mutation.

import os
import json

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Get credentials from environment
    cid, secret = os.getenv("CAUSELY_CLIENT_ID"), os.getenv("CAUSELY_CLIENT_SECRET")
    if not cid or not secret:
        raise EnvironmentError("Missing CAUSELY_CLIENT_ID or CAUSELY_CLIENT_SECRET")

    # Get access token and create GraphQL client
    token = get_causely_access_token(cid, secret)
    client = create_graphql_client(token)

    # Prepare mutation
    mutation = """
    mutation createNotification($notification: NotificationInput!) {
      createNotification(notification: $notification)
    }
    """

    # Build the payload
    embedded_payload = {
        "link": "https://portal.causely.app",
        "name": "Causely: Test Notification 42",
        "type": "ProblemDetected",           # Options are ProblemDetected and ProblemCleared
        "entity": {
            "id": "22307647-43e6-5f08-a5e4-a3f50088ccec",
            "link": "https://portal.causely.app",
            "name": "payments-api",
            "type": "Node"
        },
       "labels": {
            "k8s.cluster.name": "us-prod",    # Test to route based on cluster
            "k8s.namespace.name": "payments", # Test to route based on name space
            "gcp.resource.zone": "https://www.gcp.com/compute/v1/projects/example-project/zones/us-central1-a",
            "causely.ai/cluster": "my-important-services-cluster"
        },
        "objectId": "2ac21477-61f3-4ae0-9fc4-0c1ea43ff727",
        "severity": "High",                   # Options are Critical, High, Medium, Low
        "timestamp": "2025-09-14T19:15:16.410543344Z",
        "description": {
            "summary": "Sending test notification for entity in us-prod myApp1",
            "details": "Webhook Test"
        }
    }

    variables = {
        "notification": {
            "sourceId": "2f423693-5334-4586-a366-64d458535001",
            "type": 1,
            "payload": json.dumps(embedded_payload)
        }
    }

    result = post_query(client, mutation, variables)
    print(result)