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Create a Notification

Goal: Subscribe to a fleet event and have Rover Nexus notify you by email or webhook when it happens.

Before you begin

  • You need a fleet selected in PathLab. You can create and manage your own notification subscriptions.
  • To deliver by email, no setup is needed: notifications can go to your account email. To deliver to a webhook, you need an HTTP endpoint you control.

Steps

  1. In the top navigation, click PathLab.
  2. In the sidebar, click Notifications to open the panel. It lists the fleet's current subscriptions.
  3. Click Create Notification. The notification form opens.
  4. Under Event, choose the event to be notified about, for example a robot going offline, a mission completing or failing, a robot fault, or a detected object.
  5. (Optional) Under Robot, limit the subscription to a specific robot, or leave it on Any robot.
  6. For events that carry a severity (such as Robot Fault, Robot Message, and Alert Created), set a Minimum severity to be notified only at or above that level.
  7. For the Object Detected event, choose an Object type to match (for example Person), or leave it on Any type.
  8. Under Delivery, choose how you want to be notified. Email and webhook are both optional, and you can use either or both:
    • Email recipients: type an address and press Enter (or click the add button) to add it. Add as many as you need. If you set no email and no webhook, notifications go to your account email.
    • Webhook URL: enter an endpoint to receive an HTTP POST for each event. Add optional custom headers (for example an Authorization header your endpoint expects). Deliveries are signed so your endpoint can confirm they are genuine. See Notifications Panel for the request format and how to verify it.
  9. (Optional) Set a Cooldown to limit how often this subscription notifies you (for example, at most once every 15 minutes).
  10. (Optional) Set an Expires date and time, after which the subscription stops. Leave it blank to keep it indefinitely.
  11. Click Create.

Your subscription now appears in the Notifications panel. You can Edit or Delete the subscriptions you own. Other people on the fleet can see the fleet's subscriptions but cannot change yours.

Tip. Use Minimum severity and Cooldown together to keep notifications meaningful: for example, notify on major faults at most once an hour.

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