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diff --git a/health/notifications/slack/README.md b/health/notifications/slack/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..45be45197 --- /dev/null +++ b/health/notifications/slack/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +# Slack.com notifications + +This is what you will get: + + +You need: + +1. The **incoming webhook URL** as given by slack.com. 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. + +Get them here: https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks + +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: + +``` +############################################################################### +# sending slack notifications + +# note: multiple recipients can be given like this: +# "CHANNEL1 CHANNEL2 ..." + +# enable/disable sending pushover notifications +SEND_SLACK="YES" + +# Login to slack.com and create an incoming webhook. +# You need only one for all your netdata servers. +# Without it, netdata cannot send slack notifications. +SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL="https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" + +# if a role recipient is not configured, a notification will be send to +# this slack channel: +DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_SLACK="alarms" + +``` + +You can define multiple channels like this: `alarms systems`. +You can give different channels per **role** using these (at the same file): + +``` +role_recipients_slack[sysadmin]="systems" +role_recipients_slack[dba]="databases systems" +role_recipients_slack[webmaster]="marketing development" +``` + +The keywords `systems`, `databases`, `marketing`, `development` are slack.com channels (they should already exist in slack). |