Setting Up Notifications

in order to get notifications from kloudmate about any incident in your infrastructure, you need to set up notification channels and notification policies a notification policy is used to configure how and where you will get notified for alarms, or issues, while notification channels are the chatops and communication platforms where the notifications are sent the notification channels that are supported by kloudmate include https //docs kloudmate com/email https //docs kloudmate com/slack https //docs kloudmate com/sns https //docs kloudmate com/ms teams https //docs kloudmate com/webhooks https //docs kloudmate com/jira note that in the case of multiple workspaces and aws accounts, you must set up notifications for each account in their respective settings option the following is how the alerting and notification process in kloudmate works 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 where they add the alarm and the notification channel where they want to be notified for that respective alarm when the alarms get triggered, the notification policy decides which alarm notifications will be sent via which notification channels to learn how to create a kloudmate alarm, see https //docs kloudmate com/setting up kloudmate alarms setting up notification channels in case of multiple workspaces and aws accounts, switch to the account for which you want to set up notifications navigate to the notification channels screen, click on settings > notifications channels click on the create button choose the desired notification channel from the dropdown setting up notification policies in case of multiple workspaces or aws accounts, switch to the account for which you want to set up notifications navigate to the notification policies screen, and click on settings > notifications policies click on the create button provide a name for the notification policy, for example, critical alerts choose the notification channel from the dropdown menu note that the notification channels that are displayed in the dropdown will be the ones you have created for the same account for which you are now creating the notification policy for this article, we are using the same email notification channel (demo) that we set up earlier in the article click on the add condition button to select the incident for which you are creating the notification policy for for alarms from the dropdown menu select the alarm for which you want to get notified on the notification channel selected in the previous step you can also add the tags you used while creating the alarm in the notification policy for issues select the issue type and the severity select the target issue from the dropdown note that you can add multiple notification channels and multiple conditions in a single notification policy once you have configured all the fields on the notification policy, click on the save policy button related resources https //docs kloudmate com/understanding kloudmate alarms https //docs kloudmate com/setting up kloudmate alarms