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Plugins

Plugins

Plugins can be used to add new alerting and check functionality to Cabot. The list below is provided as a reference and these plugins ahve not necessarily been validated. Test and use at your own risk.

Installing plugins

Installing plugins with the recommended Docker installation requires some extra work to build a custom Docker image to install the plugin from PyPi.

  1. Create your own Dockerfile 
     FROM cabotapp/cabot:0.11.13
 RUN pip install cabot_alert_telegram
  2. Build a new container 
     docker build -t foobar/cabot:latest .
  3. Verify that pip install worked 
     docker run -it  foobar/cabot:latest /bin/sh
 pip freeze

    Expected output

     ...
 botocore==1.10.26
 cabot==0.11.13
 cabot-alert-email==1.4.3
 cabot-alert-hipchat==2.0.3
 cabot-alert-slack==0.8.3
 cabot-alert-telegram==0.6
 cabot-alert-twilio==1.3.3
 cabot-check-cloudwatch==0.1.2
 celery==4.0.2
 ...
  4. Update the docker-compose file to reference the new image 
     web:
     image: foobar/cabot:latest
  5. Update the conf/default.env file to add the new plugin (or if multiple, separate by commas 
     CABOT_PLUGINS_ENABLED=cabot_alert_email,cabot_alert_telegram

Alerting plugins

Check plugins

These plugins can be installed to provide additional checks to the Cabot system. This list is provided as a reference and has not been verified. Test and use at your own risk.