SIGNL4

SIGNL4 offers critical alerting, incident response and service dispatching for operating critical infrastructure. It alerts you persistently via app push, SMS text, voice calls, and email including tracking, escalation, on-call duty scheduling and collaboration. You can send notifications to SIGNL4 using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.

Setup

Prerequisites

• An inbound webhook in SIGNL4
• 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_SIGNL4	Set SEND_SIGNL4 to YES	YES	yes
SIGNL4_WEBHOOK_URL	set SIGNL4_WEBHOOK_URL to your SIGNL4 webhook URL.		yes

Examples

Basic Configuration

SEND_SIGNL4="YES"
SIGNL4_WEBHOOK_URL="https://connect.signl4.com/webhook/xxxxxxxx"

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.