# RocketChat
Send notifications to Rocket.Chat using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.
## Setup
### Prerequisites
####
- 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
- 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` script from the
Netdata [config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/netdata-agent/configuration.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_ROCKETCHAT | Set `SEND_ROCKETCHAT` to `YES` | YES | yes |
| ROCKETCHAT_WEBHOOK_URL | set `ROCKETCHAT_WEBHOOK_URL` to your webhook URL. | | yes |
| DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT | 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`. | | yes |
##### DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT
All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.
The `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT` can be edited in the following entries at the bottom of 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"
```
#### Examples
##### Basic Configuration
```yaml
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# rocketchat (rocket.chat) global notification options
SEND_ROCKETCHAT="YES"
ROCKETCHAT_WEBHOOK_URL=""
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_ROCKETCHAT="monitoring_alarms"
```
## 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.