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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2023-05-08 16:27:08 +0000
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-<!--
-title: "Rocket.Chat"
-sidebar_label: "Rocket Chat"
-custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/health/notifications/rocketchat/README.md"
-learn_status: "Published"
-learn_topic_type: "Tasks"
-learn_rel_path: "Setup/Notification/Agent"
-learn_autogeneration_metadata: "{'part_of_cloud': False, 'part_of_agent': True}"
--->
-
-# Rocket.Chat
+# Rocket.Chat Agent alert notifications
+
+Learn how to send notifications to Rocket.Chat using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.
+
+> ### Note
+>
+> This file assumes you have read the [Introduction to Agent alert notifications](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/notifications/README.md), detailing how the Netdata Agent's alert notification method works.
This is what you will get:
![Netdata on RocketChat](https://i.imgur.com/Zu4t3j3.png)
-You need:
-1. The **incoming webhook URL** as given by RocketChat. You can use the same on all your Netdata servers (or you can have multiple if you like - your decision).
-2. One or more channels to post the messages to.
+## Prerequisites
-Get them here: <https://rocket.chat/docs/administrator-guides/integrations/index.html#how-to-create-a-new-incoming-webhook>
+You will need:
-Set them in `/etc/netdata/health_alarm_notify.conf` (to edit it on your system run `/etc/netdata/edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf`), like this:
+- The **incoming webhook URL** as given by RocketChat. You can use the same on all your Netdata servers (or you can have multiple if you like - your decision).
+- one or more channels to post the messages to.
+- terminal access to the Agent you wish to configure
-```
-#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# rocketchat (rocket.chat) global notification options
+## Configure Netdata to send alert notifications to Rocket.Chat
-# multiple recipients can be given like this:
-# "CHANNEL1 CHANNEL2 ..."
+> ### Info
+>
+> This file mentions editing configuration files.
+>
+> - To edit configuration files in a safe way, we provide the [`edit config` script](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#use-edit-config-to-edit-configuration-files) located in your [Netdata config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory) (typically is `/etc/netdata`) that creates the proper file and opens it in an editor automatically.
+> Note that to run the script you need to be inside your Netdata config directory.
+>
+> It is recommended to use this way for configuring Netdata.
-# enable/disable sending rocketchat notifications
-SEND_ROCKETCHAT="YES"
+Edit `health_alarm_notify.conf`, changes to this file do not require restarting Netdata:
-# Login to rocket.chat and create an incoming webhook. You need only one for all
-# your Netdata servers (or you can have one for each of your Netdata).
-# Without it, Netdata cannot send rocketchat notifications.
-ROCKETCHAT_WEBHOOK_URL="<your_incoming_webhook_url>"
+1. Set `SEND_ROCKETCHAT` to `YES`.
+2. Set `ROCKETCHAT_WEBHOOK_URL` to your webhook URL.
+3. Set `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT` to the channel you want the alert notifications to be sent to.
+ You can define multiple channels like this: `alerts systems`.
+ All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.
-# if a role's recipients are not configured, a notification will be send to
-# this rocketchat channel (empty = do not send a notification for unconfigured
-# roles).
-DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT="monitoring_alarms"
-```
+You can then have different channels per **role**, by editing `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT` with the channel you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:
-You can define multiple channels like this: `alarms systems`.
-You can give different channels per **role** using these (at the same file):
-
-```
+```conf
role_recipients_rocketchat[sysadmin]="systems"
+role_recipients_rocketchat[domainadmin]="domains"
role_recipients_rocketchat[dba]="databases systems"
role_recipients_rocketchat[webmaster]="marketing development"
+role_recipients_rocketchat[proxyadmin]="proxy_admin"
+role_recipients_rocketchat[sitemgr]="sites"
+```
+
+The values you provide should already exist as Rocket.Chat channels.
+
+An example of a working configuration would be:
+
+```conf
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# rocketchat (rocket.chat) global notification options
+
+SEND_ROCKETCHAT="YES"
+ROCKETCHAT_WEBHOOK_URL="<your_incoming_webhook_url>"
+DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT="monitoring_alarms"
```
-The keywords `systems`, `databases`, `marketing`, `development` are RocketChat channels (they should already exist).
-Both public and private channels can be used, even if they differ from the channel configured in your RocketChat incoming webhook.
+## Test the notification method
+To test this alert notification method refer to the ["Testing Alert Notifications"](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/notifications/README.md#testing-alert-notifications) section of the Agent alert notifications page.