Creating new channel

Channels can be easily managed from channels page:

Available channels

Email

You can use your own mail settings to send and receive emails.

Channel config - Email

Property	Description	Mandatory
Channel Name	Give your channel a name to identify it later	Yes
Host	The SMTP server host	Yes
Port	The SMTP server port	Yes
Auth User	The username for SMTP authentication	Yes
Auth Pass	The password for SMTP authentication	Yes
From	The sender's email address	Yes
To	The recipient's email address, who will receive the emails	Yes

Example

You can use your own Gmail account, first create google app password:

1. Navigate to https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords

2. Give your password a name

3. Copy the generated app password without whitespaces to use it later

Now you can fill in the data in monitor dashboard

Property	Description
Channel Name	Primary email notifications
Host	smtp.gmail.com
Port	465
Auth User	{email}@gmail.com
Auth Pass	{password}
From	{email}@gmail.com
To	{email}@gmail.com

Testing

1. Clicking on test channel notification button

2. Modify the message if needed then click send

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SNMP

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is used to send alerts and notifications to SNMP managers.

Channel config - SNMP

Property	Description	Mandatory
Channel Name	Give your channel a name to identify it later	Yes
Host	The SNMP manager's host address	Yes
Community	The SNMP community string for authentication	Yes
Trap Port	The port used for SNMP traps	Yes

You can test it the same way from Email

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API

You can add an endpoint to send the notification directly to it. The method type is POST

Channel config - API

Property	Description	Mandatory
Channel Name	Give your channel a name to identify it later	Yes
Post Url	the API endpoint	Yes

You can test it the same way from Email. Then your endpoint should expect a body like the following:

{
  "title": "Test Notification",
  "content": "This is a test notification.",
  "severity": "low"
}

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Matrix

Send notifications to specific Matrix room.

Channel config - Matrix

Property	Description	Mandatory
Channel Name	Give your channel a name to identify it later	Yes
Base Url	The base URL of the Matrix server	Yes
Access Token	The access token for authenticating requests	Yes
Room Id	The ID of the Matrix room to send notifications to	Yes

You can test it the same way from Email.

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Browser

Send notifications to current browser.

Every browser can only have one channel. If the current browser already have a subscription you will see this warning:

Channel config - Browser

Property	Description	Mandatory
Channel Name	Give your channel a name to identify it later	Yes

You can test it the same way from Email. Notifications are sent when monitor tab is active.

Edit channel

You can edit channel by clicking edit button

Delete channel

You can delete channel by clicking delete button