Google Workspace Alert Center API

Name: Google Workspace Alert Center API API
Brand: Google Workspace Alert Center API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecSecurityThreat Detectionoauth211 EndpointsREST

For Agents

List, fetch, and triage Google Workspace security alerts (phishing, malware, suspicious sign-ins) across a customer domain.

Quickstart

Get started with Google Workspace Alert Center API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"list Google Workspace security alerts"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Google Workspace Alert Center API API.

List Workspace security alerts filtered by type, source, and time range

Retrieve the full payload of a single alert including the affected users and Google's analysis

Attach analyst feedback (NOT_USEFUL, SOMEWHAT_USEFUL, VERY_USEFUL) to an alert for tuning

Batch-delete or batch-undelete alerts to clear or restore noisy detections

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Use for: List Google Workspace alerts of type 'Phishing' raised in the last 24 hours, Get the full alert body for a specific alertId including affected user accounts, Retrieve metadata for an alert to check its current triage state, Submit feedback marking a Workspace alert as VERY_USEFUL

Not supported: Does not handle Workspace user provisioning, admin audit logs, or detection rule configuration — use for reading and triaging Workspace security alerts only.

The Google Workspace Alert Center API exposes alerts about issues affecting a Workspace domain — phishing campaigns, suspicious account activity, malware, account compromise, and policy violations — that Google's security systems flag. It supports listing, retrieving, undeleting, and batch-deleting alerts, attaching analyst feedback, and reading per-alert metadata. It is intended for security teams that want Workspace alerts pulled into their SIEM or SOAR rather than triaged in the Alert Center web UI.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Google Workspace Alert Center API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Workspace Alerts in a SIEM

Security teams want every Workspace security alert (phishing, suspicious sign-in, malware) to land in their SIEM alongside endpoint and identity alerts. The Alert Center API is the only programmatic surface for these — they cannot be pulled from the audit log alone. A poller lists new alerts, GETs each by ID, and forwards the structured payload to the SIEM. The 11 endpoints cover list, get, feedback, metadata, undelete, batchDelete and batchUndelete.

GET /v1beta1/alerts with a filter on createTime greater than the last watermark, then GET /v1beta1/alerts/{alertId} for each new ID and ship the result as a SIEM event.

Analyst Feedback Loop

Security operations teams want to tell Google which Workspace alerts were useful so detections improve over time. The createFeedback endpoint attaches a feedback rating to an alert. Combined with metadata reads, this lets a SOAR playbook record a triage decision and submit feedback in the same step rather than asking analysts to leave the SIEM and click in the Alert Center UI.

After an analyst dispositions an alert in the SOAR, POST to /v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}/feedback with type=VERY_USEFUL or NOT_USEFUL and an email of the submitting analyst.

Bulk Alert Cleanup

When a misconfigured rule fires hundreds of false-positive alerts, security teams need a fast way to clear them and a safe way to restore them if needed. batchDelete soft-deletes a list of alert IDs and batchUndelete restores them. This avoids hand-clicking through pages of Alert Center entries when a noisy detection misfires.

POST /v1beta1/alerts:batchDelete with the list of alertIds for the misfiring detection, and on confirmation that the rule was wrong call /v1beta1/alerts:batchUndelete with the same list.

Agent-Triaged Workspace Alerts

An agent integrating Alert Center via Jentic can search for the listing operation, fetch each alert, summarise it with a language model, and post a triage suggestion to chat. Jentic isolates the Workspace OAuth credential and exposes only the alert payload schema, so the workflow runs without a custom OAuth implementation. Setup time drops from a couple of days to under an hour.

Use the Jentic search query 'list Google Workspace security alerts' to discover the operation, then list new alerts, fetch each by ID, summarise the data block, and post a structured triage card to Slack.

Key Endpoints

11 endpoints — the google workspace alert center api exposes alerts about issues affecting a workspace domain — phishing campaigns, suspicious account activity, malware, account compromise, and policy violations — that google's security systems flag.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1beta1/alerts

List alerts for a Workspace customer with optional filter and orderBy

GET

/v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}

Get a single alert by ID

POST

/v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}/feedback

Attach analyst feedback to an alert

GET

/v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}/metadata

Get triage metadata for an alert

POST

/v1beta1/alerts:batchDelete

Soft-delete a batch of alerts

POST

/v1beta1/alerts:batchUndelete

Restore a previously deleted batch of alerts

GET

/v1beta1/alerts

List alerts for a Workspace customer with optional filter and orderBy

GET

/v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}

Get a single alert by ID

POST

/v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}/feedback

Attach analyst feedback to an alert

GET

/v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}/metadata

Get triage metadata for an alert

POST

/v1beta1/alerts:batchDelete

Soft-delete a batch of alerts

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Alert Center uses OAuth 2.0, typically via a Workspace domain-wide delegated service account. Jentic stores the service account JSON encrypted in the MAXsystem vault and issues short-lived access tokens to the agent, so keys never appear in agent context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic with intents like 'list Google Workspace security alerts' and Jentic returns the matching alerts.list operation along with its filter and pagination schema.

Time to first call

Direct integration takes 1-2 days for service account delegation, OAuth, and pagination. Through Jentic the same workflow runs in under an hour.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Admin SDK API

Admin SDK provides user, group, and audit log data that enriches Alert Center alerts.

Pair with Alert Center when an agent needs to look up the affected user's role, group, or recent admin activity for an alert.

Complementary

Advisory Notifications API

Advisory Notifications carries broader Google-issued advisories; Alert Center carries Workspace security alerts.

Use Advisory Notifications for org-wide advisories from Google; use Alert Center for Workspace-specific security alerts.

Alternative

Cloud DLP API

Cloud DLP scans and redacts sensitive data across Google Cloud sources; Alert Center is the narrow feed of Workspace-originated security alerts.

Use Cloud DLP for content inspection and sensitive-data scanning; use Alert Center when you only need Workspace security alerts pulled into a triage queue.

FAQs

Specific to using Google Workspace Alert Center API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Alert Center API use?

OAuth 2.0 with the apps.alerts scope, typically via a Workspace domain-wide delegated service account so the API can read alerts for the customer. Jentic stores the service account JSON in its encrypted vault and minted access tokens are short-lived, so secrets never enter agent context.

Can I forward every Workspace phishing alert into my SIEM?

Yes. Call /v1beta1/alerts with a filter such as type="Phishing message detected post-delivery" AND createTime>="...", then GET /v1beta1/alerts/{alertId} for each result and post the payload as a SIEM event.

What are the rate limits for the Alert Center API?

Alert Center is governed by the standard Google Workspace API per-project quota. Default quota covers normal SIEM polling intervals; high-frequency polling may need a quota increase via the Google Cloud Console quotas page for the Alert Center API.

How do I submit analyst feedback on an alert through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'submit feedback on a Google Workspace alert', load the schema for /v1beta1/alerts/{alertId}/feedback, and POST with type and email. Run pip install jentic and the async search, load, execute pattern.

Does the Alert Center API let me change which alerts Google generates?

No. The detection rules are owned by Google. The API lets you list alerts, attach feedback, manage triage state, and update domain-level notification settings, but it does not configure detection logic itself.

Why is this API marked v1beta1?

Google has shipped Alert Center as v1beta1 for an extended period and treats it as production-grade for Workspace customers. The endpoint paths in this enrichment reflect the v1beta1 paths the API actually exposes.