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# Amazon SNS
As part of it's AWS suite, Amazon provides a notification broker service called 'Simple Notification Service' or SNS. Amazon SNS works kind of similarly to Netdata's own notification system, allowing dispatch of a single notification to multiple subscribers of different types. Among other things, SNS supports sending notifications to:
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- The Amazon Web Services CLI tools. Most distributions provide these with the package name `awscli`.
- An actual home directory for the user you run Netdata as, instead of just using `/` as a home directory. Setup of this is distribution specific. `/var/lib/netdata` is the recommended directory (because the permissions will already be correct) if you are using a dedicated user (which is how most distributions work).
-- An Amazon SNS topic to send notifications to with one or more subscribers. The [Getting Started](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/GettingStarted.html) section of the Amazon SNS documentation covers the basics of how to set this up. Make note of the Topic ARN when you create the topic.
+- An Amazon SNS topic to send notifications to with one or more subscribers. The [Getting
+ Started](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sns-getting-started.html) section of the Amazon SNS documentation
+ covers the basics of how to set this up. Make note of the Topic ARN when you create the topic.
- While not mandatory, it is highly recommended to create a dedicated IAM user on your account for Netdata to send notifications. This user needs to have programmatic access, and should only allow access to SNS. If you're really paranoid, you can create one for each system or group of systems.
Once you have all the above, run the following command as the user Netdata runs under:
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Notes:
- Netdata's native email notification support is far better in almost all respects than it's support through Amazon SNS. If you want email notifications, use the native support, not SNS.
- - If you need to change the notification format for SNS notifications, you can do so by specifying the format in `AWSSNS_MESSAGE_FORMAT` in the configuration. This variable supports all the same vairiables you can use in custom notifications.
+ - If you need to change the notification format for SNS notifications, you can do so by specifying the format in `AWSSNS_MESSAGE_FORMAT` in the configuration. This variable supports all the same variables you can use in custom notifications.
- While Amazon SNS supports sending differently formatted messages for different delivery methods, Netdata does not currently support this functionality.
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