Notifications in VictoriaMetrics Cloud #

The section explains the Notifications concept in VictoriaMetrics Cloud.

What are notifications? #

The purpose of notifications is to help teams stay informed about critical events, product updates, and account activities. They are divided into different interest groups:

• System alerts: Critical updates about platform health and infrastructure
• Billing: Notifications about invoices, usage limits, and payment issues
• Product news: Updates on new features, improvements, and releases
• Activity: Events related to user actions and deployments

Default notification recipients #

By default, organization administrators are automatically subscribed to all VictoriaMetrics Cloud notification categories.

Configuring notifications #

Organization administrators can manage notification settings by using the pencil (✏️) icon next to each category to edit recipients. Changes done apply across the whole organization. At a user level, it’s also possible to opt-out from available notifications.

Notifications can be received in the following channels:

• Email addresses can be defined for all notification types
• Additionally, Slack channels can be defined to receive System Alerts.

Configuring Slack notifications #

Slack channel notifications may be configured for System Alerts via webhooks. In order to define where in Slack notifications should show up, VictoriaMetrics Cloud needs to know:

• The Slack webhook url
• The Channels to receive notifications

To learn about Slack webhook urls please check this information: https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks . In a nutshell, it’s needed to create a Slack app, enable incoming webhook, and create an incoming webhook.

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