add-rocketchat-notification-configuration.md 2.8 KB

Add RocketChat notification configuration

From the Cloud interface, you can manage your space's notification settings and from these you can add a specific configuration to get notifications delivered on RocketChat.

Prerequisites

To add RocketChat notification configurations you need:

  • A Netdata Cloud account
  • Access to the space as an administrator
  • Space needs to be on Business plan or higher
  • Have a RocketChat app on your workspace to receive the webhooks, for more details check how to configure this on RocketChat

Steps

  1. Click on the Space settings cog (located above your profile icon)
  2. Click on the Notification tab
  3. Click on the + Add configuration button (near the top-right corner of your screen)
  4. On the RocketChat card click on + Add
  5. A modal will be presented to you to enter the required details to enable the configuration:
    1. Notification settings are Netdata specific settings
      • Configuration name - you can optionally provide a name for your configuration you can easily refer to it
      • Rooms - by specifying a list of Rooms you are select to which nodes or areas of your infrastructure you want to be notified using this configuration
      • Notification - you specify which notifications you want to be notified using this configuration: All Alerts and unreachable, All Alerts, Critical only
    2. Integration configuration are the specific notification integration required settings, which vary by notification method. For RocketChat:

Settings on RocketChat

To enable the webhook integrations on RocketChat you need:

  1. In RocketChat, Navigate to Administration > Workspace > Integrations.

  2. Click +New at the top right corner.

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  1. For more details about each parameter, check create-a-new-incoming-webhook.

  2. After configuring integration, click Save.

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  1. You will end up with a webhook endpoint that looks like so:

    https://your-server.rocket.chat/hooks/YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    
    • Treat this endpoint as a secret. Anyone who has it will be able to post messages to your RocketChat instance.

For more details please check RocketChat's article Incoming webhooks for RocketChat.