OpsGenie

Opsgenie is an alerting and incident response tool. It is designed to group and filter alarms, build custom routing rules for on-call teams, and correlate deployments and commits to incidents. You can send notifications to Opsgenie using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.

Setup

Prerequisites

• An Opsgenie integration. You can create an integration in the Opsgenie dashboard.
• 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_OPSGENIE	Set SEND_OPSGENIE to YES	YES	yes
OPSGENIE_API_KEY	Set OPSGENIE_API_KEY to your API key.		yes
OPSGENIE_API_URL	Set OPSGENIE_API_URL to the corresponding URL if required, for example there are region-specific API URLs such as https://eu.api.opsgenie.com.	https://api.opsgenie.com	no

Examples

Basic Configuration

SEND_OPSGENIE="YES"
OPSGENIE_API_KEY="11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
OPSGENIE_API_URL=""

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.