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title: "Alarm notifications"
description: "Reference documentation for Netdata's alarm notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more."
custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/health/notifications/README.md
-->
# Alarm notifications
The `exec` line in health configuration defines an external script that will be called once
the alarm is triggered. The default script is `alarm-notify.sh`.
You can change the default script globally by editing `/etc/netdata/netdata.conf`.
`alarm-notify.sh` is capable of sending notifications:
- to multiple recipients
- using multiple notification methods
- filtering severity per recipient
It uses **roles**. For example `sysadmin`, `webmaster`, `dba`, etc.
Each alarm is assigned to one or more roles, using the `to` line of the alarm configuration. Then `alarm-notify.sh` uses
its own configuration file `/etc/netdata/health_alarm_notify.conf`. To edit it on your system, run
`/etc/netdata/edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf` and find the destination address of the notification for each
method.
Each role may have one or more destinations.
So, for example the `sysadmin` role may send:
1. emails to admin1@example.com and admin2@example.com
2. pushover.net notifications to USERTOKENS `A`, `B` and `C`.
3. pushbullet.com push notifications to admin1@example.com and admin2@example.com
4. messages to slack.com channel `#alarms` and `#systems`.
5. messages to Discord channels `#alarms` and `#systems`.
## Configuration
Edit `/etc/netdata/health_alarm_notify.conf` by running `/etc/netdata/edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf`:
- settings per notification method:
all notification methods except email, require some configuration
(i.e. API keys, tokens, destination rooms, channels, etc).
- **recipients** per **role** per **notification method**
```sh
grep sysadmin /etc/netdata/health_alarm_notify.conf
role_recipients_email[sysadmin]="${DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_EMAIL}"
role_recipients_pushover[sysadmin]="${DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_PUSHOVER}"
role_recipients_pushbullet[sysadmin]="${DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_PUSHBULLET}"
role_recipients_telegram[sysadmin]="${DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM}"
role_recipients_slack[sysadmin]="${DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_SLACK}"
...
```
## Testing Notifications
You can run the following command by hand, to test alarms configuration:
```sh
# become user netdata
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 in versions before 1.16, the plugins.d directory may be installed in a different location in certain OSs (e.g. under `/usr/lib/netdata`). You can always find the location of the alarm-notify.sh script in `netdata.conf`.
If you need to dig even deeper, you can trace the execution with `bash -x`. Note that in test mode, alarm-notify.sh calls itself with many more arguments. So first do
```sh
bash -x /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test
```
Then look in the output for the alarm-notify.sh calls and run the one you want to trace with `bash -x`.
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