Flock

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

Setup

Prerequisites

• The incoming webhook URL as given by flock.com. You can use the same on all your Netdata servers (or you can have multiple if you like). Read more about flock webhooks and how to get one here.
• 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_FLOCK	Set SEND_FLOCK to YES	YES	yes
FLOCK_WEBHOOK_URL	set FLOCK_WEBHOOK_URL to your webhook URL.		yes
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_FLOCK	Set DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_FLOCK to the Flock channel you want the alert notifications to be sent to. All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.		yes

DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_FLOCK

You can have different channels per role, by editing DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_FLOCK with the channel you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:

role_recipients_flock[sysadmin]="systems"
role_recipients_flock[domainadmin]="domains"
role_recipients_flock[dba]="databases systems"
role_recipients_flock[webmaster]="marketing development"
role_recipients_flock[proxyadmin]="proxy-admin"
role_recipients_flock[sitemgr]="sites"

Examples

Basic Configuration

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# flock (flock.com) global notification options

SEND_FLOCK="YES"
FLOCK_WEBHOOK_URL="https://api.flock.com/hooks/sendMessage/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_FLOCK="alarms"

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.