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diff --git a/health/notifications/custom/Makefile.inc b/health/notifications/custom/Makefile.inc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c64ebda --- /dev/null +++ b/health/notifications/custom/Makefile.inc @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later + +# THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE Makefile +# IT IS INCLUDED BY ITS PARENT'S Makefile.am +# IT IS REQUIRED TO REFERENCE ALL FILES RELATIVE TO THE PARENT + +# install these files +dist_noinst_DATA += \ + custom/README.md \ + custom/Makefile.inc \ + $(NULL) + diff --git a/health/notifications/custom/README.md b/health/notifications/custom/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edc4262 --- /dev/null +++ b/health/notifications/custom/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<!-- +title: "Custom" +custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/health/notifications/custom/README.md +--> + +# Custom + +Netdata allows you to send custom notifications to any endpoint you choose. + +To configure custom notifications, you will need to customize `health_alarm_notify.conf`. Open the file for editing +using [`edit-config`](/docs/configure/nodes.md#use-edit-config-to-edit-configuration-files) from the [Netdata config +directory](/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory), which is typically at `/etc/netdata`. + +You can look at the other senders in `/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh` for examples of how to modify the `custom_sender()` function in `health_alarm_notify.conf`. + +As with other notifications, you will also need to define the recipient list in `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_CUSTOM` and/or the `role_recipients_custom` array. + +The following is a sample `custom_sender` function in `health_alarm_notify.conf`, to send an SMS via an imaginary HTTPS endpoint to the SMS gateway: + +``` + custom_sender() { + # example human readable SMS + local msg="${host} ${status_message}: ${alarm} ${raised_for}" + + # limit it to 160 characters and encode it for use in a URL + urlencode "${msg:0:160}" >/dev/null; msg="${REPLY}" + + # a space separated list of the recipients to send alarms to + to="${1}" + + for phone in ${to}; do + httpcode=$(docurl -X POST \ + --data-urlencode "From=XXX" \ + --data-urlencode "To=${phone}" \ + --data-urlencode "Body=${msg}" \ + -u "${accountsid}:${accounttoken}" \ + https://domain.website.com/) + + if [ "${httpcode}" = "200" ]; then + info "sent custom notification ${msg} to ${phone}" + sent=$((sent + 1)) + else + error "failed to send custom notification ${msg} to ${phone} with HTTP error code ${httpcode}." + fi + done +} +``` + +Variables available to the custom_sender: + +- `${to_custom}` the list of recipients for the alarm +- `${host}` the host generated this event +- `${url_host}` same as `${host}` but URL encoded +- `${unique_id}` the unique id of this event +- `${alarm_id}` the unique id of the alarm that generated this event +- `${event_id}` the incremental id of the event, for this alarm id +- `${when}` the timestamp this event occurred +- `${name}` the name of the alarm, as given in Netdata health.d entries +- `${url_name}` same as `${name}` but URL encoded +- `${chart}` the name of the chart (type.id) +- `${url_chart}` same as `${chart}` but URL encoded +- `${family}` the family of the chart +- `${url_family}` same as `${family}` but URL encoded +- `${status}` the current status : REMOVED, UNINITIALIZED, UNDEFINED, CLEAR, WARNING, CRITICAL +- `${old_status}` the previous status: REMOVED, UNINITIALIZED, UNDEFINED, CLEAR, WARNING, CRITICAL +- `${value}` the current value of the alarm +- `${old_value}` the previous value of the alarm +- `${src}` the line number and file the alarm has been configured +- `${duration}` the duration in seconds of the previous alarm state +- `${duration_txt}` same as `${duration}` for humans +- `${non_clear_duration}` the total duration in seconds this is/was non-clear +- `${non_clear_duration_txt}` same as `${non_clear_duration}` for humans +- `${units}` the units of the value +- `${info}` a short description of the alarm +- `${value_string}` friendly value (with units) +- `${old_value_string}` friendly old value (with units) +- `${image}` the URL of an image to represent the status of the alarm +- `${color}` a color in #AABBCC format for the alarm +- `${goto_url}` the URL the user can click to see the Netdata dashboard +- `${calc_expression}` the expression evaluated to provide the value for the alarm +- `${calc_param_values}` the value of the variables in the evaluated expression +- `${total_warnings}` the total number of alarms in WARNING state on the host +- `${total_critical}` the total number of alarms in CRITICAL state on the host + +The following are more human friendly: + +- `${alarm}` like "name = value units" +- `${status_message}` like "needs attention", "recovered", "is critical" +- `${severity}` like "Escalated to CRITICAL", "Recovered from WARNING" +- `${raised_for}` like "(alarm was raised for 10 minutes)" + + |