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# Flock


<img src="https://netdata.cloud/img/flock.png" width="150"/>


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



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## 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](https://admin.flock.com/webhooks).
- 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](/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/README.md#the-netdata-config-directory).

```bash
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

<details open><summary>Config Options</summary>

| 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:
```conf
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"
```


</details>

#### Examples

##### Basic Configuration



```yaml
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 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:

```bash
# 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.


