How to Build an ETL App for Opsgenie Data in Python with CData

The rich ecosystem of Python modules lets you get to work quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. With the CData API Driver for Python and the petl framework, you can build Opsgenie-connected applications and pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading Opsgenie data. This article shows how to connect to Opsgenie with the CData Python Connector and use petl and pandas to extract, transform, and load Opsgenie data.

With built-in, optimized data processing, the CData Python Connector offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Opsgenie data in Python. When you issue complex SQL queries from Opsgenie, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Opsgenie and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations).

Connecting to Opsgenie Data

Connecting to Opsgenie data looks just like connecting to any relational data source. Create a connection string using the required connection properties. For this article, you will pass the connection string as a parameter to the create_engine function.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Opsgenie Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Opsgenie.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Opsgenie (see below).

Opsgenie API Profile Settings

Navigate to your Opsgenie account Settings > App Settings > API Key Management to create a new API key.

After installing the CData Opsgenie Connector, follow the procedure below to install the other required modules and start accessing Opsgenie through Python objects.

Install Required Modules

Use the pip utility to install the required modules and frameworks:

pip install petl
pip install pandas

Build an ETL App for Opsgenie Data in Python

Once the required modules and frameworks are installed, we are ready to build our ETL app. Code snippets follow, but the full source code is available at the end of the article.

First, be sure to import the modules (including the CData Connector) with the following:

import petl as etl
import pandas as pd
import cdata.api as mod

You can now connect with a connection string. Use the connect function for the CData Opsgenie Connector to create a connection for working with Opsgenie data.

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\Opsgenie.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';")

Create a SQL Statement to Query Opsgenie

Use SQL to create a statement for querying Opsgenie. In this article, we read data from the ActionChannels entity.

sql = "SELECT Id, Name FROM ActionChannels WHERE TeamId = 'your_team_id'"

Extract, Transform, and Load the Opsgenie Data

With the query results stored in a DataFrame, we can use petl to extract, transform, and load the Opsgenie data. In this example, we extract Opsgenie data, sort the data by the Name column, and load the data into a CSV file.

Loading Opsgenie Data into a CSV File

table1 = etl.fromdb(cnxn,sql)

table2 = etl.sort(table1,'Name')

etl.tocsv(table2,'actionchannels_data.csv')

With the CData API Driver for Python, you can work with Opsgenie data just like you would with any database, including direct access to data in ETL packages like petl.

Free Trial & More Information

Download a free, 30-day trial of the CData API Driver for Python to start building Python apps and scripts with connectivity to Opsgenie data. Reach out to our Support Team if you have any questions.

Full Source Code

import petl as etl
import pandas as pd
import cdata.api as mod

cnxn = mod.connect("Profile=C:\profiles\Opsgenie.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';")

sql = "SELECT Id, Name FROM ActionChannels WHERE TeamId = 'your_team_id'"

table1 = etl.fromdb(cnxn,sql)

table2 = etl.sort(table1,'Name')

etl.tocsv(table2,'actionchannels_data.csv')