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diff --git a/health/notifications/email/README.md b/health/notifications/email/README.md index ebd7f4b8c..82786fca1 100644 --- a/health/notifications/email/README.md +++ b/health/notifications/email/README.md @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ Netdata sends all emails as user `netdata`, so make sure your `sendmail` works f email notifications look like this: - + -## configuration +## Configuration To edit `health_alarm_notify.conf` on your system run `/etc/netdata/edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf`. @@ -38,6 +38,20 @@ Where `[ROLE]` is the role you want to test. The default (if you don't give a `[ Note that in versions before 1.16, the plugins.d directory may be installed in a different location in certain OSs (e.g. under `/usr/lib/netdata`). You can always find the location of the alarm-notify.sh script in `netdata.conf`. +## Filtering + +Every notification email (both the plain text and the rich html versions) from the Netdata agent, contain a set of custom email headers that can be used for filtering using an email client. Example: + +``` +X-Netdata-Severity: warning +X-Netdata-Alert-Name: inbound_packets_dropped_ratio +X-Netdata-Chart: net_packets.enp2s0 +X-Netdata-Family: enp2s0 +X-Netdata-Classification: System +X-Netdata-Host: winterland +X-Netdata-Role: sysadmin +``` + ## Simple SMTP transport configuration If you want an alternative to `sendmail` in order to have a simple MTA configuration for sending emails and auth to an existing SMTP server, you can do the following: |