grafana-alert-to-syslog

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Grafana Alert to Syslog

Listens to Grafana's webhooks and sends them to syslog server

configuration (flags)

dest - syslog server hostname (default "127.0.0.1:514")

protocol - protocol for syslog: tcp\udp (default "tcp")

port - port for this webserver (default ":38090")

format - syslog formats: RFC3164/RFC5424/DEFUALT (default "RFC3164")

for example sending to syslog server which listens in udp at 10.0.0.4:514 in RFC5424 format execute:

./grafana-alert-to-syslog -dest 10.0.0.4:514 -protocol udp -format RFC5424

configure webhook in grafana

• navigate to Notification Channels
• click new channel
• choose "webhook" on type dropdown
• under Webhook settings set url with the port you configured via flag (defaults to 38090)
• leave Http Method as POST

it should look like:

setting priority and tag for alerts

To set the priorities/tags for the different alerts:

• navigate to the alert and add tags named: "priority" and/or "tag" and set the value...
• priority accepts the following:
  • EMERG
  • ALERT
  • CRIT
  • ERR
  • WARNING
  • NOTICE
  • INFO
  • DEBUG