Run using Google Chat notification

This tutorial will show you how to integrate Monika with Google Chat using Google Chat webhook so that you can get your Monika notifications through your Google Chat.

Getting your Google Chat webhook

To create your Google Chat webhook, you need to create a space. Go to the Google Chat page, and navigate to the bottom-left part of the page. In the “Spaces” section, click the plus icon and click Create Space. Fill out the space details and then click Create.

After you created a new space, click the menu icon on the top-right of the page to minimize the sidebar. Then, click your space’s name and select the Manage Webhook menu.

It should display a new popup to create a new incoming webhook. Fill out the incoming webhooks name and avatar URL (which is optional), and then click Save. Copy the webhook URL into somewhere else, as we are going to use it later.

Integrating Monika with Google Chat

Now that we have our Google Chat Webhook URL and installed Monika, it’s time to create a configuration called monika.yml:

1 notifications:
2   - id: unique-id-webhook
3     type: google-chat
4     data:
5       url: <YOUR_GOOGLE_CHAT_WEBHOOK_URL>
6 probes:
7   - id: google_chat_test
8     name: Google Chat Test
9     description: Google Chat Notification Channel Test
10     interval: 10
11     requests:
12       - method: GET
13         url: https://reqres.in/api/users
14     alerts:
15       - query: response.status != 200
16         message: Status code is not 200
17       - query: response.time > 500
18         message: Request took more than half a second

Let me explain a little bit about this configuration:

• You need to set the notification channel in the notifications object. There are 3 properties: id, type, and data. Set the id to any string values, as it is just an identifier. Then, set the type field to google-chat to set the notification channel to Google Chat. After that, put your Google Chat Webhook URL into the data.url field.
• Monika will be probing https://reqres.in/api/users every ten seconds and will send you an alert if the response time is greater than half a second or the response status code is not 200.

Now that we have our configuration ready, it’s time to run it with Monika. Go to the directory where you saved the Monika configuration, and run Monika straight away using monika -c monika.yml

Congratulations! Now that you have successfully integrated Monika with Google Chat.