icinga2-slack-notification

                                        
This is an improved version of https://github.com/nisabek/icinga2-slack-notifications with rich notification format, more details, and extensive configuration.

                    

        
        

            
            

                

    

    
icinga2-rich-slack-notification


This is an improved version of https://github.com/nisabek/icinga2-slack-notifications with rich notification format, more details, and extensive configuration.


Preview


Sample Notification Preview


Additional Features


    

  1. Colored Notification.
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  2. Shows alert state-duration in human readable format.
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  3. Can send notifications to multiple Slack teams.
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  4. Customizable footer text
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Features


    

  1. Compatible Slack and Mattermost JSON Webhook attachments.
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  2. Colored Notifications for states like OK, Warning, Critical etc.
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  3. Includes raw plugin outputs.
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  4. Shows alert state-duration in human readable format.
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  5. Shows comment with owner for Acknowledgement and Custom notifications.
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  6. Can send notifications to multiple Slack endpoints
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  7. The default re-notification interval can be changed.
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  8. The re-notification interval can be customized per host or service.
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  9. When the notification for a host is enabled, it will be inherited to all of its services checks, unless disabled for the specific service(s).
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Installation and Basic Configuration


    

  1. Copy the two slack-notification-* confs to /etc/icinga2/conf.d/ directory
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  2. Modify the vars.slack_notifications_icinga2_base_url in slack-notifications-configuration.conf with your IcingaWeb2 Base URL. This is to jump to Alert Dashboard right from Slack channel.
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  3. Configure the existing host or service configuration like the provided one in sample.conf
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  4. Get the webhook_url of the Slack Channel and add in to the object User section of required notification user(s). Read more here
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  5. Validate the Icinga2 configuration and restart the service.
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Advanced Configuration


    

  1. The notification color can be changed in the array variable vars.slack_notifications_color using HEX notation.
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  2. Notifications for Scheduled DOWNTIME alerts are disabled by default. It can be enabled in the variable types
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  3. The Footer text can be set using the variable vars.slack_footer_text in slack-notifications-configuration.conf
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