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Netdata allows you to send custom notifications to any endpoint you choose.

To configure custom notifications, you will need to customize health_alarm_notify.conf. Open the file for editing using edit-config from the Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.

You can look at the other senders in /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh for examples of how to modify the custom_sender() function in health_alarm_notify.conf.

As with other notifications, you will also need to define the recipient list in DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_CUSTOM and/or the role_recipients_custom array.

The following is a sample custom_sender function in health_alarm_notify.conf, to send an SMS via an imaginary HTTPS endpoint to the SMS gateway:

 custom_sender() {
# example human readable SMS
local msg="${host} ${status_message}: ${alarm} ${raised_for}"

# limit it to 160 characters and encode it for use in a URL
urlencode "${msg:0:160}" >/dev/null; msg="${REPLY}"

# a space separated list of the recipients to send alarms to
to="${1}"

for phone in ${to}; do
httpcode=$(docurl -X POST \
--data-urlencode "From=XXX" \
--data-urlencode "To=${phone}" \
--data-urlencode "Body=${msg}" \
-u "${accountsid}:${accounttoken}" \
https://domain.website.com/)

if [ "${httpcode}" = "200" ]; then
info "sent custom notification ${msg} to ${phone}"
sent=$((sent + 1))
else
error "failed to send custom notification ${msg} to ${phone} with HTTP error code ${httpcode}."
fi
done
}

Variables available to the custom_sender:

  • ${to_custom} the list of recipients for the alarm
  • ${host} the host generated this event
  • ${url_host} same as ${host} but URL encoded
  • ${unique_id} the unique id of this event
  • ${alarm_id} the unique id of the alarm that generated this event
  • ${event_id} the incremental id of the event, for this alarm id
  • ${when} the timestamp this event occurred
  • ${name} the name of the alarm, as given in Netdata health.d entries
  • ${url_name} same as ${name} but URL encoded
  • ${chart} the name of the chart (type.id)
  • ${url_chart} same as ${chart} but URL encoded
  • ${family} the family of the chart
  • ${url_family} same as ${family} but URL encoded
  • ${status} the current status : REMOVED, UNINITIALIZED, UNDEFINED, CLEAR, WARNING, CRITICAL
  • ${old_status} the previous status: REMOVED, UNINITIALIZED, UNDEFINED, CLEAR, WARNING, CRITICAL
  • ${value} the current value of the alarm
  • ${old_value} the previous value of the alarm
  • ${src} the line number and file the alarm has been configured
  • ${duration} the duration in seconds of the previous alarm state
  • ${duration_txt} same as ${duration} for humans
  • ${non_clear_duration} the total duration in seconds this is/was non-clear
  • ${non_clear_duration_txt} same as ${non_clear_duration} for humans
  • ${units} the units of the value
  • ${info} a short description of the alarm
  • ${value_string} friendly value (with units)
  • ${old_value_string} friendly old value (with units)
  • ${image} the URL of an image to represent the status of the alarm
  • ${color} a color in #AABBCC format for the alarm
  • ${goto_url} the URL the user can click to see the Netdata dashboard
  • ${calc_expression} the expression evaluated to provide the value for the alarm
  • ${calc_param_values} the value of the variables in the evaluated expression
  • ${total_warnings} the total number of alarms in WARNING state on the host
  • ${total_critical} the total number of alarms in CRITICAL state on the host

The following are more human friendly:

  • ${alarm} like "name = value units"
  • ${status_message} like "needs attention", "recovered", "is critical"
  • ${severity} like "Escalated to CRITICAL", "Recovered from WARNING"
  • ${raised_for} like "(alarm was raised for 10 minutes)"

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