# Mattermost webhook
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This guide describes how to integrate your Zabbix 7.0 installation with Mattermost using the Zabbix webhook feature. This guide will provide instructions on setting up a media type, a user and an action in Zabbix.

## Setting up a Mattermost bot

1\. From the **Main menu** of your Mattermost installation, select **Integrations** and click on the **Bot accounts** block. 

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2\. Click on the **Add Bot Account** button and fill in the required fields and enable permissions for **post:all** and **post:channels**.

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3\. The bot account is created and given an **Access Token** that you need to save. It will not be displayed later.

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* You can always create a new access token with an arbitrary description, but remember that it is only displayed at the creation step.

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4\. Add a **Bot Account** to your **Team** so that it can send messages to the team channels. To do this, click **Invite People** from the **Main menu**.

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5\. The bot can already send messages to **public channels** and **user channels** (direct messages). To send it to a **private channel**, add it as a member.

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## Zabbix Webhook configuration

### Create a global macro

1\. Before setting up the **Webhook**, you need to setup the global macro **{$ZABBIX.URL}**, which must contain the **URL** to the **Zabbix frontend**.

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2\. In the **Administration** > **Media types** section, import the [media_mattermost.yaml](media_mattermost.yaml)

3\. Open the added **Mattermost** media type and set **bot_token** to the previously created token and **mattermost_url** to the **frontend URL** of your **Mattermost** installation.

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* You can also choose between two notification modes:
	- **alarm** (default)
		- Update messages will be attached as replies to Mattermost message thread
		- Recovery message from Zabbix will update initial message
	- **event**
		- Recovery and update messages from Zabbix will be posted as new messages


4\. Click the **Update** button to save the **Webhook** settings.

5\. To receive notifications in **Mattermost**, you need to create a **Zabbix user** and add **Media** with the **Mattermost** type.

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The **Send to** field can contain several variants of values:

- Channel name in **`team_name/#channel_name`** format
- Channel name in **`team_name/@user_name`** format for direct messages
- Identifier of the channel (for example: **fqzj8ysn8frxu8m9hcjna5uqmc**)

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You can view the channel identifier in the channel properties.

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For more information, use the [Zabbix](https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/7.0/manual/config/notifications) and [Mattermost](https://docs.mattermost.com) documentations.

## Supported Versions

Zabbix 7.0