Send notifications to Gotify

Gotify is a self-hosted push notification service created for sending and receiving messages in real time.

Configuring Gotify

Prerequisites

To use Gotify as your notification service, you need an application token. You can generate a new token in the Gotify Web UI.

Configuration

To set up Gotify in Netdata:

1. Switch to your config directory and edit the file health_alarm_notify.conf using the edit config script.

   ./edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf

2. Change the variable GOTIFY_APP_TOKEN to the application token you generated in the Gotify Web UI. Change GOTIFY_APP_URL to point to your Gotify instance.

   SEND_GOTIFY="YES"
   
   # Application token
   # Gotify instance url
   GOTIFY_APP_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
   GOTIFY_APP_URL=https://push.example.de/

   Changes to health_alarm_notify.conf do not require a Netdata restart.

3. Test your Gotify notifications configuration by running the following commands, replacing ROLE with your preferred role:

   # become user netdata
   sudo su -s /bin/bash netdata
   
   # send a test alarm
   /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test ROLE

   🟢 If everything works, you'll see alarms in Gotify:

   

   🔴 If sending the test notifications fails, check /var/log/netdata/error.log to find the relevant error message:

   2020-09-03 23:07:00: alarm-notify.sh: ERROR: failed to send Gotify notification for: hades test.chart.test_alarm is CRITICAL, with HTTP error code 401.