Webhook server for grafana to send SMS via twilio

Quickstart

Pull the whole thing with git.
git clone https://gitea.rabjerg.de/Rabjerg/grafana_twilio_webhook.git

Copy secrets.env.sample to secrets.env and fill it with your twilio credientals and sender/reciever phone number.

Run setup.sh (do NOT do this as root), this will create a new virtual environment and install the nessecary packages in said environment.

edit flask_webhook_server.py line 11 and 12, what server (URL and IP) is allowed to send SMS via the webhook.

now test that everything works by running run.sh

Setting up webhook notification in grafana.

Go to your grafana server and select "Alerting" -> "Notifications" -> "Create new notification channel"

Name: "Twilio SMS Webhook"
type: "Webhook"
URL: "http://{server_ip}:5000/grafana_webhook"
HTTP Method: "POST"

With the server running, you can now press "test" and should get a test notification per SMS.

Save and enjoy.

Make it run on start with systemd

copy .etc/systemd/system/twilio_webhook.service to /etc/systemd/system/twilio_webhook.service.

edit the /etc/systemd/system/twilio_webhook.service Important is that ExecStart= points to the absolute path of run.sh and WorkingDirectory= points to the directory with run.sh

Now do sudo systemctl daemon-reload to load the new unit.
and sudo systemctl start twilio_webhook.service --now to start the service.

Everything should be set up and running from now on.