NewRelic Pushover alerts

How to push NewRelic alerts to the Pushover mobile app.

I use the Pushover app on my mobile to receive alerts from a number of different systems, both work and home, so it made sense to send critical NewRelic alerts to it too.

Step 1 - setup Pushover

Create an account (you could get a week for free at time of writing), install the app on your mobile.  Give it a quick test:

Make a note of your user key, you'll need this later

Create a new application and make a note of the API Token for it, you'll need this later

Step 2 - configure NewRelic

Login to NewRelic and click "Alerts | Notification Channels | New notification channel | Webhook".  Configure the channel:

The specific settings are:

BaseURI : https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json

Payload:

{

  "title": "$CONDITION_NAME",

  "message":"$ACCOUNT_NAME\n$EVENT_DETAILS\n$INCIDENT_URL",

  "token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

  "user":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

  "sound":"classical"

}

You can now send a test to confirm it's working, and then associate the Notification Channel with an Alert Policy.