Alertbot

This bot uses the webhook functionality of monitoring/alerting solutions like Grafana or Alertmanager to forward alerts to matrix rooms. This means that you no longer have to use E-Mail or Slack to receive alerts. See the setup below for how to use it or join the Alertbot room on matrix

Getting Started

Prerequisites:

• A maubot instance: Please refer to the docs for setting up one
• An instance of alertmanager or grafana or a similar alerting program that is able to send webhooks

Getting the code

Clone this repository to your local computer and install maubot to have access to the maubot CLI

git clone https://github.com/moan0s/alertbot
cd alertbot
pip install maubot

Login to your maubot instance

mbc login

Build&Upload the plugin

mbc build -u

You now have the plugin installed. Now you have to set up an instance of the bot in the maubot manager and invite it to the room where the alerts should be sent. Also find out the room id by asking the bot for it with !roomid.

Setup Alertmanager

This configuration will send all your alerts to the room !zOcbWjsWzdREnihgeC:example.com (if the bot has access to it). Put in your own room-id (!roomid) behind the webhook base url (!url):

receivers:
- name: alertbot
  webhook_configs:
  - url: https://synapse.hyteck.de/_matrix/maubot/plugin/alertbot/webhook/!zOcbWjsWzdREnihgeC:example.com
route:
  group_by:
  - alertname
  - cluster
  - service
  group_interval: 5m
  group_wait: 30s
  receiver: alertbot
  repeat_interval: 3h

Setup Grafana

The grafana setup is fairly simple and can be used to forward grafana alerts to matrix.

Test your setup

It can be a bit annoying to trigger an alert (e.g. by shutting down a server) to test if your configuration is right and if the bot works as intended. Therefore, you find a few example alerts in alert_examples/ which allow you to test the bot.

Use them with the following command (but adjust the webhook URL):

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request POST \
  --data "@alert_examples/data.json" \
  https://webhook.example.com/_matrix/maubot/plugin/maubot/webhook/!zOcbWjsWzdREnihreC:example.com

Local testing Setup

Also you might want to test the bot on your local machine but send webhooks to a public server. To do that use a domain e.g. webbhook.example.com and configure nginx as reverse proxy for port 4242 for this domain.

Connect

Run the local server and connect via (29316 is the local maubot port) ssh -N -R 4242:localhost:29316 webhook.example.com

Send some data with

Use an example from the alert_examples/ to test your setup

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --request POST \
  --data "@alert_examples/prometheus.json" \
  https://webhook.example.com/_matrix/maubot/plugin/maubot/webhook/!zOcbWjsWzdREnihreC:example.com