shollingsworth/alerta_heroku_docker

Pushover + Alerta + Heroku Docker runtime

Deploy Instructions

1. Sign into heroku / or create an account

   • Create an api key

2. Sign into github, and fork this repo

   • In your new repo, create the following secrets
     • HEROKU_API_KEY the api key you just created
     • HEROKU_APP_NAME the heroku app name (it should not exist)
     • HEROKU_EMAIL the email attached to your heroku account

3. After the secrets are created, push an empty commit to kick off github actions

   • git commit --allow-empty -m "Empty test commit"

4. Watch the deploy in github actions

5. Once the deploy is finished, go to the heroku app, expand config vars, and grab the value for ADMIN_USERS

   • Also copy your heroku url (can be found under open app)

6. login into the application with that username and password alerta

7. create a new admin user (be sure to add it as an admin) / document the password somewhere safe

8. log off and log back in with the new admin user

9. remove all api keys

10. remove all user accounts

11. create a new admin api key

12. Go back to your cli and initialize the heroku cli

    • the heroku cli tools
    • issue the following commands
      • heroku login
      • heroku git:remote -a

13. run heroku config:edit

    • remove the lines
      • ADMIN_KEY=...
      • ADMIN_USERS=...
    • Edit the line
      • ALERTA_API_KEY=...
      • erase the old api key, and insert the one your created in sted 11
    • Add the following lines
      • DASHBOARD_URL=
      • If you want to use pushover
        • PUSHOVER_TOKEN=
        • PUSHOVER_USER=

14. Enjoy!