Setting Up Notifications
6 min
to receive notifications from kloudmate about incidents in your infrastructure, you need to set up notification channels and notification policies a notification policy configures how and where you get notified for alarms or issues, while notification channels are the communication platforms where those notifications are sent kloudmate supports the following notification channels email slack sns ms teams webhook jira in the case of multiple workspaces and aws accounts, you must set up notifications for each account in their respective settings how notifications work the user creates kloudmate alarms the user configures their preferred notification channels such as email, slack, ms teams, and more the user creates a notification policy, adding the alarm and the channel where they want to be notified when an alarm is triggered, the notification policy determines which notifications are sent via which channels to learn how to create a kloudmate alarm, see setting up kloudmate alarms docid\ t qrgpbasmxzvp 1udlcp setting up notification channels navigate to settings > notification channels the screen displays all existing channels with their name, type, and address step 1 click the create button at the top right corner step 2 select the desired channel type from the dropdown step 3 enter a name and the corresponding address (e g , email address or webhook url) for the channel step 4 click submit once created, the channel appears in the list you can edit or delete any channel using the more options (⋯) icon setting up notification policies navigate to settings > notification policies the screen displays all existing policies with their name, assigned channels, conditions, and enabled status step 1 click the create button at the top right corner step 2 enter a policy name step 3 select one or more notification channels from the dropdown the dropdown displays channels created for the same workspace you are currently working in step 4 click add condition to define when this policy should trigger you can add multiple conditions to a single policy for alarm conditions select the alarm(s) from the select alarms dropdown optionally add tags (name and value) to match specific alarm tags if no tags are specified, the condition will match all alarm tags for issue conditions select the issue type — new issues or new and regression select the target issue(s) from the dropdown step 5 use the disable this policy toggle if you want to save the policy without activating it immediately step 6 click save policy you can add multiple notification channels and multiple conditions in a single notification policy related resources understanding kloudmate alarms https //docs kloudmate com/understanding kloudmate alarms setting up kloudmate https //docs kloudmate com/setting up kloudmate alarms