{{tag>monitoring notifications}}

====== Grafana to rocketchat notifications ======
First set create the **Contact point** under **Alerting** and add [[https://docs.rocket.chat/docs/integrations#incoming-integrations|Rocketchat webhook]].

Under **Optional webhook** settings set:

 > HTTP method to post

 > Extra headers to Content-Type application/json

then set the **Custom payload** (click on //Edit Payload template > Enter custom payload template//) to something RC expects e.g.

<code javascript | download>
{
  "emoji":":panda_face:",
  "alias": "Grafana alert",
  "text": "{{ range .Alerts }}*{{ .Status | toUpper }}*: {{ .Labels.compose_project }}\n Server host: {{ .Labels.host }}\nContainer name: {{ .Labels.container_name }}\n{{ end }}",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "title": "Link to below dashboard",
      "title_link": "{{ range .Alerts }}{{ .DashboardURL }}{{ end }}",
      "text": "Rocket.Chat, the best open source chat",
      "image_url": "https://rocket.chat",
      "color": "#724AA5"
    }
  ]
}

</code>

''.Labels'' contains the labels assigned under the Alert rules. Change other fields as well.

====== Tested on ======
  * 

====== See also ======

====== References ======
  * https://docs.rocket.chat/docs/integrations#webhook-url-format
  * https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rules/annotation-label/#label-types
  * https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/configure-notifications/template-notifications/reference/#alert