Is the only way to get the alert Id after you create an alert (POST /alert) is to use GET /alerts to retrieve all alerts and then iterate to find it. Looking through the documentation I do not see any other way. Why isn’t the Alert Id returned on the POST /alert call? Am I missing something? I’m not getting anything back from the call. It seems that would be putting more of a burden on your systems for those that are adding hundreds of alerts throughout the day and then having to retrieve thousands of alerts to get the new ids.
A link to the newly created alert is contained in the Location header of the API’s response to your POST request. This is indicated in the documentation for that endpoint under Response->Response Headers.
-Chris