Add Notification Tasks

How to configure notification tasks in TrueNAS Connect for proactive monitoring.

Adding Notification Tasks

Click Add to open the Add Notification Task screen.

Systems/Tags

Select the system(s) to monitor for notifications.

Notification Type

Select the type of notification to create:

  • Alert - Sends notifications when alert conditions are triggered based on the threshold settings
  • Report - Sends automated reports containing system performance data, storage insights, alert summaries, and predictive analysis

Schedule

Select the frequency to receive notifications for the current task.

For Alert notifications: Select Immediately to have notifications sent as soon as the alert level is triggered or select Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly to schedule periodic notifications.

For Report notifications: Select Hourly, Daily, or Weekly to schedule automated report delivery.

Threshold

Select the level of alert severity to associate with this notification task. Select CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, or INFO to receive notifications for all alerts at the selected level and above.

For example, a notification task set to Immediately and WARNING immediately sends notifications for all at or above the WARNING level, including ERROR and CRITICAL.

Notification Method

Select the contact type for this notification task. Options include Email, Sms text message, Slack, and Pagerduty.

Configure contact account or address details for the selected method in Notification Method Configuration.

Report Content

Automated reports include high-level data points useful for all user personas:

  • Storage availability and usage - Pool-level storage metrics and usage trends since last report
  • Predictive analysis - Forecasts when storage usage will exceed recommended thresholds
  • Available updates - Notifications about TrueNAS system updates and application updates
  • Alert history - Summary of critical, error, and warning alerts with resolution status
  • Call-to-action link - Direct access to TrueNAS Connect interface for detailed analysis

Enterprise Customization

As users increase TrueNAS Connect tier status, reports become more customizable with additional Enterprise-tier metrics:

  • CPU consumption (average and peak usage)
  • Memory consumption (average and peak usage)
  • Network throughput and roundtrip time statistics
  • Storage latency data
  • Replication status and duration metrics
  • Dataset quota insights and snapshot counts
  • TrueNAS access auditing (login activity)
  • Critical VM uptime statistics