Prowl

Send notifications to Prowl using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.

Limitations

• Because of how Netdata integrates with Prowl, there is a hard limit of at most 1000 notifications per hour (starting from the first notification sent). Any alerts beyond the first thousand in an hour will be dropped.
• Warning messages will be sent with the 'High' priority, critical messages will be sent with the 'Emergency' priority, and all other messages will be sent with the normal priority. Opening the notification's associated URL will take you to the Netdata dashboard of the system that issued the alert, directly to the chart that it triggered on.

Setup

Prerequisites

• A Prowl API key, which can be requested through the Prowl website after registering
• 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_PROWL	Set SEND_PROWL to YES	YES	yes
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_PROWL	Set DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_PROWL to the Prowl API key you want the alert notifications to be sent to. You can define multiple API keys like this: APIKEY1, APIKEY2.		yes

DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_PROWL

All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.

The DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_PROWL can be edited in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:

role_recipients_prowl[sysadmin]="AAAAAAAA"
role_recipients_prowl[domainadmin]="BBBBBBBBB"
role_recipients_prowl[dba]="CCCCCCCCC"
role_recipients_prowl[webmaster]="DDDDDDDDDD"
role_recipients_prowl[proxyadmin]="EEEEEEEEEE"
role_recipients_prowl[sitemgr]="FFFFFFFFFF"

Examples

Basic Configuration

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# iOS Push Notifications

SEND_PROWL="YES"
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_PROWL="XXXXXXXXXX"

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.