ilert

ilert is an alerting and incident management tool. It helps teams reduce response times by enhancing monitoring and ticketing tools with reliable alerts, automatic escalations, on-call schedules, and features for incident response, communication, and status updates. Sending notification to ilert via Netdata's Agent alert notification feature includes links, images and resolving of corresponding alerts.

Setup

Prerequisites

• A Netdata alert source in ilert. You can create a Netdata alert source in ilert.
• 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_ILERT	Set SEND_ILERT to YES	YES	yes
ILERT_ALERT_SOURCE_URL	Set ILERT_ALERT_SOURCE_URL to your Netdata alert source url in ilert.		yes

Examples

Basic Configuration

SEND_ILERT="YES"
ILERT_ALERT_SOURCE_URL="https://api.ilert.com/api/v1/events/netdata/{API-KEY}"

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.