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ilert apps allow you to extend your alerting, on-call and status page experience with custom functionality and integrations build by you or other ilert users. |
In the connections overview you can see all applications that you have granted access to your account. You may see their last activity as well as revoke their access.
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{% hint style="warning" %} Revoking an app's access invalidates the refresh token of the app, its current access_token stays intact until it expires. It can therefore take a few minutes until the app no longer has permissions to access the granted data. {% endhint %}
To create your first application, go to the Applications tab and click on Create new application.
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You may choose a name and description for your app. Please note that you cannot change the name of your app later.
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{% hint style="success" %} You may choose to limit your app to your own ilert account, while testing or in case your app is only ment for your organization. {% endhint %}
After clicking on Create application, you will be taken to the edit view of your application that allows you to adjust futher settings:
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ilert Apps use OAuth2 for user authorization - in our next guides we explain what that means and how you can setup native or web applications as well as backend driven applications.
{% content-ref url="understanding-oauth2.md" %} understanding-oauth2.md {% endcontent-ref %}
{% content-ref url="developing-a-web-or-native-app-with-oauth2-and-pkce.md" %} developing-a-web-or-native-app-with-oauth2-and-pkce.md {% endcontent-ref %}
{% content-ref url="developing-a-backend-app-with-oauth2.md" %} developing-a-backend-app-with-oauth2.md {% endcontent-ref %}