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README.md

Microsoft Teams Plugin

Send Microsoft Teams messages for new alerts.

If you have the Python Jinja2 package installed you can customize the Microsoft Teams message format.

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Installation

Clone the GitHub repo and run:

$ python setup.py install

Or, to install remotely from GitHub run:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/alerta/alerta-contrib.git#subdirectory=plugins/msteams

Note: If Alerta is installed in a python virtual environment then plugins need to be installed into the same environment for Alerta to dynamically discover them.

Configuration

Add msteams to the list of enabled PLUGINS in alertad.conf server configuration file and set plugin-specific variables either in the server configuration file or as environment variables.

PLUGINS = ['msteams']
MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL =  'https://outlook.office.com/webhook/.../IncomingWebhook/.../...'
DASHBOARD_URL = 'http://try.alerta.io'

The MS_TEAMS_SUMMARY_FMT configuration variable is a Jinja2 template string or filename to a template file and accepts any Jinja2 syntax. The formatter has access to two variables in the template environment, 'alert' for all alert details and 'config' for access to the alerta configuration.

If you have Jinja2 available you can try customizing the message like this:

MS_TEAMS_SUMMARY_FMT = '<b>[{{ alert.status|capitalize }}]</b> [{{ alert.severity|upper }}] Event {{ alert.event }} on <b>{{ alert.resource }}</b><br>{{ alert.text }}'

The MS_TEAMS_TEXT_FMT configuration variable is a Jinja2 template string or filename to a template file and accepts any Jinja2 syntax. MS_TEAMS_TEXT_FMT formats msTeamsMessage.text(alert.text), if omitted no formatting is done on alert.text.

Teams Payload

With MS_TEAMS_PAYLOAD it's possible to fully customize the alert. MS_TEAMS_PAYLOAD is Jinja2 template (string or filename) containing the full HTTP POST payload(json) that's sent to MS_TEAMS_WEBHOOK_URL.

Example payload in example-payload.json.j2 file.

References

Pymsteams API: https://github.com/rveachkc/pymsteams
Jinja2 templating language for Python: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/