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diff --git a/health/notifications/rocketchat/README.md b/health/notifications/rocketchat/README.md index 0f7867d0..6f722aa8 100644 --- a/health/notifications/rocketchat/README.md +++ b/health/notifications/rocketchat/README.md @@ -1,57 +1,66 @@ -<!-- -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:  -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. |