# ilert ilert is an alerting and incident management tool. It helps teams reduce response times by enhancing monitoring and ticketing tools with reliable alerts, automatic escalations, on-call schedules, and features for incident response, communication, and status updates. Sending notification to ilert via Netdata's Agent alert notification feature includes links, images and resolving of corresponding alerts. ## Setup ### Prerequisites #### - A Netdata alert source in ilert. You can create a [Netdata alert source](https://docs.ilert.com/inbound-integrations/netdata) in [ilert](https://www.ilert.com/). - Access to the terminal where Netdata Agent is running ### Configuration #### File The configuration file name for this integration is `health_alarm_notify.conf`. You can edit the configuration file using the [`edit-config`](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/README.md#edit-a-configuration-file-using-edit-config) script from the Netdata [config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/README.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

Config Options

| Name | Description | Default | Required | |:----|:-----------|:-------|:--------:| | SEND_ILERT | Set `SEND_ILERT` to YES | YES | yes | | ILERT_ALERT_SOURCE_URL | Set `ILERT_ALERT_SOURCE_URL` to your Netdata alert source url in ilert. | | yes |

#### Examples ##### Basic Configuration ```yaml SEND_ILERT="YES" ILERT_ALERT_SOURCE_URL="https://api.ilert.com/api/v1/events/netdata/{API-KEY}" ``` ## 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" ``` Note that this will test _all_ alert mechanisms for the selected role.