Discord

Send notifications to Discord 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 Discord. Create a webhook by following the official Discord documentation. You can use the same on all your Netdata servers (or you can have multiple if you like - your decision).
• One or more Discord 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.

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_DISCORD	Set SEND_DISCORD to YES	YES	yes
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL	set DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL to your webhook URL.		yes
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_DISCORD	Set DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_DISCORD to the channel you want the alert notifications to be sent to. You can define multiple channels like this: alerts systems.		yes

DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_DISCORD

All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured. You can then have different channels per role, by editing DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_DISCORD with the channel you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:

role_recipients_discord[sysadmin]="systems"
role_recipients_discord[domainadmin]="domains"
role_recipients_discord[dba]="databases systems"
role_recipients_discord[webmaster]="marketing development"
role_recipients_discord[proxyadmin]="proxy-admin"
role_recipients_discord[sitemgr]="sites"

The values you provide should already exist as Discord channels in your server.

Examples

Basic Configuration

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# discord (discordapp.com) global notification options

SEND_DISCORD="YES"
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL="https://discord.com/api/webhooks/XXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_DISCORD="alerts"

Troubleshooting

Test Notification

You can run the following command by hand, to test alerts configuration:

# 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.