MessageBird Agent alert notifications

Learn how to send notifications to MessageBird using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.

Note

This file assumes you have read the Introduction to Agent alert notifications, detailing how the Netdata Agent's alert notification method works.

This is what you will get:

Prerequisites

You will need:

• an access key under 'API ACCESS (REST)' (you will want a live key), you can read more here
• terminal access to the Agent you wish to configure

Configure Netdata to send alert notifications to MessageBird

Info

This file mentions editing configuration files.

• To edit configuration files in a safe way, we provide the edit config script located in your Netdata config directory (typically is /etc/netdata) that creates the proper file and opens it in an editor automatically.
  Note that to run the script you need to be inside your Netdata config directory.

It is recommended to use this way for configuring Netdata.

Edit health_alarm_notify.conf, changes to this file do not require restarting Netdata:

1. Set SEND_MESSAGEBIRD to YES.
2. Set MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY to your API access key.
3. Set MESSAGEBIRD_NUMBER to the MessageBird number you want to use for the alert.
4. Set DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MESSAGEBIRD to the number you want the alert notification to be sent as an SMS.
   You can define multiple recipients like this: +15555555555 +17777777777.
   All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.

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

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

An example of a working configuration would be:

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Messagebird (messagebird.com) SMS options

SEND_MESSAGEBIRD="YES"
MESSAGEBIRD_ACCESS_KEY="XXXXXXXX"
MESSAGEBIRD_NUMBER="XXXXXXX"
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_MESSAGEBIRD="+15555555555"

Test the notification method

To test this alert notification method refer to the "Testing Alert Notifications" section of the Agent alert notifications page.