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-# Matrix Agent alert notifications
+<!--startmeta
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+sidebar_label: "Matrix"
+learn_status: "Published"
+learn_rel_path: "Alerting/Notifications/Agent Dispatched Notifications"
+message: "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY, IT IS GENERATED BY THE NOTIFICATION'S metadata.yaml FILE"
+endmeta-->
-Learn how to send notifications to Matrix network rooms using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.
+# Matrix
-> ### 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.
-## Prerequisites
+<img src="https://netdata.cloud/img/matrix.svg" width="150"/>
-You will need:
+
+Send notifications to Matrix network rooms using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.
+
+
+
+<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/maintained%20by-Netdata-%2300ab44" />
+
+## Setup
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+####
- The url of the homeserver (`https://homeserver:port`).
- Credentials for connecting to the homeserver, in the form of a valid access token for your account (or for a dedicated notification account). These tokens usually don't expire.
- The room ids that you want to sent the notification to.
+- Access to the terminal where Netdata Agent is running
+
+
-## Configure Netdata to send alert notifications to Matrix
+### Configuration
-> ### 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.
+#### File
-Edit `health_alarm_notify.conf`, changes to this file do not require restarting Netdata:
+The configuration file name for this integration is `health_alarm_notify.conf`.
-1. Set `SEND_MATRIX` to `YES`.
-2. Set `MATRIX_HOMESERVER` to the URL of the Matrix homeserver.
-3. Set `MATRIX_ACCESSTOKEN` to the access token from your Matrix account.
- To obtain the access token, you can use the following `curl` command:
- ```bash
- curl -XPOST -d '{"type":"m.login.password", "user":"example", "password":"wordpass"}' "https://homeserver:8448/_matrix/client/r0/login"
- ```
+You can edit the configuration file using the `edit-config` script from the
+Netdata [config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory).
+
+```bash
+cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
+sudo ./edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf
+```
+#### Options
+
+The following options can be defined for this notification
+
+<details><summary>Config Options</summary>
+
+| Name | Description | Default | Required |
+|:----|:-----------|:-------|:--------:|
+| SEND_MATRIX | Set `SEND_MATRIX` to YES | YES | True |
+| MATRIX_HOMESERVER | set `MATRIX_HOMESERVER` to the URL of the Matrix homeserver. | | True |
+| MATRIX_ACCESSTOKEN | Set `MATRIX_ACCESSTOKEN` to the access token from your Matrix account. | | True |
+| DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MATRIX | Set `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MATRIX` to the rooms you want the alert notifications to be sent to. The format is `!roomid:homeservername`. | | True |
+
+##### MATRIX_ACCESSTOKEN
+
+To obtain the access token, you can use the following curl command:
+```
+curl -XPOST -d '{"type":"m.login.password", "user":"example", "password":"wordpass"}' "https://homeserver:8448/_matrix/client/r0/login"
+```
+
-4. Set `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MATRIX` to the rooms you want the alert notifications to be sent to.
- The format is `!roomid:homeservername`.
+##### DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MATRIX
- The room ids are unique identifiers and can be obtained from the room settings in a Matrix client (e.g. Riot).
+The room ids are unique identifiers and can be obtained from the room settings in a Matrix client (e.g. Riot).
- You can define multiple rooms like this: `!roomid1:homeservername !roomid2:homeservername`.
- All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.
+You can define multiple rooms like this: `!roomid1:homeservername` `!roomid2:homeservername`.
-Detailed information about the Matrix client API is available at the [official site](https://matrix.org/docs/guides/client-server.html).
+All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.
-You can then have different rooms per **role**, by editing `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MATRIX` with the `!roomid:homeservername` you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:
+You can have different rooms per role, by editing `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MATRIX` with the `!roomid:homeservername` you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:
```conf
role_recipients_matrix[sysadmin]="!roomid1:homeservername"
@@ -57,9 +86,16 @@ role_recipients_matrix[proxyadmin]="!roomid5:homeservername"
role_recipients_matrix[sitemgr]="!roomid6:homeservername"
```
-An example of a working configuration would be:
-```conf
+</details>
+
+#### Examples
+
+##### Basic Configuration
+
+
+
+```yaml
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Matrix notifications
@@ -67,8 +103,30 @@ SEND_MATRIX="YES"
MATRIX_HOMESERVER="https://matrix.org:8448"
MATRIX_ACCESSTOKEN="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MATRIX="!XXXXXXXXXXXX:matrix.org"
+
+```
+
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+### Test Notification
+
+You can run the following command by hand, to test alerts configuration:
+
+```bash
+# become user netdata
+sudo su -s /bin/bash netdata
+
+# enable debugging info on the console
+export NETDATA_ALARM_NOTIFY_DEBUG=1
+
+# send test alarms to sysadmin
+/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test
+
+# send test alarms to any role
+/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test "ROLE"
```
-## Test the notification method
+Note that this will test _all_ alert mechanisms for the selected role.
+
-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.