11.2. Creating notifications by using the UI

Procedure

1. On the Red Hat Quay v2 UI, click Repositories.
2. Select the name of a repository.
3. Click Settings Events and notifications.
4. Click Create notification. The Create notification popup box appears.
5. Click the Select event…​ box, then click Image expiry trigger.
6. In the When the image is due to expiry in days box, enter the number of days before the image’s expiration when you want to receive an alert. For example, use 1 for 1 day.

7. In the Select method…​ box, click one of the following:

   • E-mail
   • Webhook POST
   • Flowdock Team Notification
   • HipChat Room Notification
   • Slack Notification
8. Depending on which method you chose, include the necessary data. For example, if you chose Webhook POST, include the Webhook URL.
9. Optional. Provide a POST JSON body template.
10. Optional. Provide a Title for your notification.
11. Click Submit. You are returned to the Events and notifications page, and the notification now appears.

12. Optional. You can set the NOTIFICATION_TASK_RUN_MINIMUM_INTERVAL_MINUTES variable in your config.yaml file. with this field set, if there are any expiring images notifications will be sent automatically. By default, this is set to 300, or 5 hours, however it can be adjusted as warranted.

    NOTIFICATION_TASK_RUN_MINIMUM_INTERVAL_MINUTES: 300 

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    By default, this field is set to 300, or 5 hours.

Verification

1. Click the menu kebab Test Notification. The following message is returned:

   Test Notification Queued
   A test version of this notification has been queued and should appear shortly

2. Depending on which method you chose, check your e-mail, webhook address, Slack channel, and so on. The information sent should look similar to the following example:

   {
     "repository": "sample_org/busybox",
     "namespace": "sample_org",
     "name": "busybox",
     "docker_url": "quay-server.example.com/sample_org/busybox",
     "homepage": "http://quay-server.example.com/repository/sample_org/busybox",
     "tags": [
       "latest",
       "v1"
     ],
     "expiring_in": "1 days"
   }