Twilio

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

Setup

Prerequisites

• Get your SID, and Token from https://www.twilio.com/console
• Terminal access to the Agent you wish to configure

Configuration

Options

The following options can be defined for this notification

Config Options

Option	Description	Default	Required
SEND_TWILIO	Set SEND_TWILIO to YES	YES	yes
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID	set TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID to your account SID.		yes
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_TOKEN	Set TWILIO_ACCOUNT_TOKEN to your account token.		yes
TWILIO_NUMBER	Set TWILIO_NUMBER to your account's number.		yes
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TWILIO	Set DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TWILIO to the number you want the alert notifications to be sent to. You can define multiple numbers like this: +15555555555 +17777777777.		yes

DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TWILIO

You can then have different recipients per role, by editing DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TWILIO with the recipient's number you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:

role_recipients_twilio[sysadmin]="+15555555555"
role_recipients_twilio[domainadmin]="+15555555556"
role_recipients_twilio[dba]="+15555555557"
role_recipients_twilio[webmaster]="+15555555558"
role_recipients_twilio[proxyadmin]="+15555555559"
role_recipients_twilio[sitemgr]="+15555555550"

via 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

Examples

Basic Configuration

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Twilio (twilio.com) SMS options

SEND_TWILIO="YES"
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID="xxxxxxxxx"
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_TOKEN="xxxxxxxxxx"
TWILIO_NUMBER="xxxxxxxxxxx"
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TWILIO="+15555555555"

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.