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go-neb is unmaintained, look for an alternative #549
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We use go-neb to forward prometheus alerts to matrix:
The go-neb github repo was archived on Jun 28, 2023. The README says "matrix-hookshot is the spiritual successor to Go-NEB".
Have we investigated replacing go-neb with matrix-hookshot?
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Erethon commentedon Jan 31, 2025
There's NixOS/nixpkgs#342663 that "tracks" this in nixpkgs. As mentioned here there's https://github.com/jaywink/matrix-alertmanager that's meant to be used specifically for having alertmanager alerts in Matrix. Since we're only using go-neb for alerts currently, I think matrix-alertmanager is better suited to this instead of Hookshot.
I'm personally using matrix-alertmanager in my infra and recently started maintaining the package in nixpkgs. I plan to write a NixOS module for it once I find some free time.
Erethon commentedon Feb 2, 2025
Opened NixOS/nixpkgs#378966 as a draft, will iterate on it in the coming days.
jfly commentedon Mar 7, 2025
@Erethon, congrats on landing NixOS/nixpkgs#378966! Do you want to take the next step and switch our infra to use it?
Erethon commentedon Mar 8, 2025
Thanks for the thorough review and for helping push it trough the finish line! ❤️
Sure! I wont be able to start working on this until after the 12th of March, but I'll have a PR ready towards the end of the week.
jfly commentedon Mar 8, 2025
Thanks! No rush at all.
jfly commentedon Mar 29, 2025
@Erethon, no pressure at all: is this still on your list of things to do?
Erethon commentedon Mar 30, 2025
Yes, I still want to get this done, unfortunately life got in the way. Hopefully I'll have a bit more time this week and will get to it.
Mic92 commentedon Apr 7, 2025
I am happy user of @pinpox's matrixhook: https://github.com/Mic92/dotfiles/blob/6a639e9594fada3fd709ce588bb01eccba7950fd/machines/eva/modules/prometheus/matrix-alertmanager.nix#L4
It's limited to prometheus only, but this seems to be what we need.
mweinelt commentedon May 15, 2025
Flagging as security relevant due to jaywink/matrix-alertmanager#48.
Erethon commentedon May 15, 2025
I would say it's security relevant because go-neb is unmaintained and not getting updates since 2022 (officiall deprecation notice came in 2023). Matrix-alertmanager is one option we have to migrate to so that we can drop go-neb.