Call me if Grafana fires

Grafana's alerts can make your phone ring full screen until you answer. It takes one contact point in Grafana and one alert source in Call Me If, about five minutes.

1. Make an alert source in Call Me If

1. Sign in at callmeif.app and open Alert sources.
2. Create a source and name it after what it watches — for example Grafana production.
3. Copy the key it shows you. It is shown once. The address is https://api.callmeif.app/api/v1/alerts.

Then, in the app, write the sentence that decides what happens — "Call me if Grafana production fires" — and choose Ring, or Ring, then call me for the alerts worth waking up for.

2. Add a contact point in Grafana

1. In Grafana, go to Alerting → Contact points and click + Add contact point.
2. Name: Call Me If. Integration: Webhook.
3. URL: https://api.callmeif.app/api/v1/alerts
4. Open Optional Webhook settings. Under Authorization Header, leave the Scheme as Bearer and paste your key into Credentials.
5. Click Test. Your phone should ring within a few seconds.
6. Click Save contact point.
7. Send the alerts you care about to it: Alerting → Notification policies, then choose this contact point on the default policy or on a policy for the labels you want.

What rings, and what does not

• The alert's title is what the ring shows, and Grafana's message becomes its text.
• When the problem clears, nothing rings. Grafana sends a second message marked resolved; Call Me If recognises it and does not wake you twice. You can also turn it off at the source with Disable resolved message in the contact point's optional settings.
• A Grafana alert that fires again and again is one ring. Repeats of the same alert within five minutes are recognised as one.
• The key only creates alerts. It cannot read your history or anything else in your account; if it leaks, replace it on the source's page and paste the new one into Grafana.

If the test does not ring

• 401 in Grafana: the key is wrong, or it was replaced. Copy it again from the source's page.
• It arrived but did not ring: check the phone's setup in the app — Home says whether this phone will ring, and why not.

Call Me If is not for medical, emergency or life-safety use.

The Android app is in testing. The account you create here is the one you will sign in with there.