Google Workspace Alert Center API
Google Workspace Alert Center API
Google Workspace Alert Center API receives and manages Workspace security alerts — phishing emails, suspicious logins, data exfiltration, compliance violations.
Broad alert-type coverage (30+ categories)
Only Workspace Enterprise plan includes all alert types
POST /v1beta1/alerts:listAlerts to list alerts; PATCH /alerts/{id} to update state.
Uptime · 30-day window
About this API
Alert Center is Workspace's built-in security alert hub, receiving alerts from Google's security engine (phishing detection, ATO-suspect logins, abnormal file downloads, DLP violations, etc.). Workspace Admins see these alerts in console, but enterprise SOCs typically need to import them into their own SIEM. Alert Center API is for this — periodically pull new alerts, format-convert, write into Splunk/QRadar/Chronicle for correlation. Also supports auto-response workflows — certain alerts auto-trigger Admin SDK calls to suspend users, revoke OAuth tokens, delete suspicious emails from all recipient inboxes. Critical component for enterprise Workspace security operations.
What you can build
- 1Centralized Workspace security event reception by SOC team
- 2SIEM integration (Splunk, QRadar, Chronicle)
- 3Auto-takedown of phishing emails
- 4Suspicious login auto-response via IAM
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Broad alert-type coverage (30+ categories)
- Rich metadata for investigation
- Alert state management (in-progress/closed) supported
Limitations
- Only Workspace Enterprise plan includes all alert types
- Some alerts have lag (minutes to hours from event to alert)
Example request
curl https://google.com/<endpoint>Getting started
POST /v1beta1/alerts:listAlerts to list alerts; PATCH /alerts/{id} to update state.
FAQ
How much alert lag is there?+
Simple alerts (suspicious login, config change): within minutes. Complex alerts (DLP, APT suspect): up to hours (requires deep analysis).
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, go, java
- Response time
- 41 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:37:30 AM
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