Engineering · Easy
Tell the team the moment your site goes down
Finding out about downtime from customers is the worst way. An alert in the channel the team already watches gets someone looking within minutes.
Software used
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What happens
When
A Better Stack monitor finds your site or API not responding.
Then
- An alert is posted to a Slack channel.
- Whoever is on call can acknowledge it, and the channel sees when it recovers.
How the tools connect
With a built-in integration. Better Stack lists Slack as an integration on its website.
Set it up
Connect Slack in Better Stack and choose an alerts channel.
Add monitors for your home page, sign-in and any API customers depend on.
Pause a test monitor's target, or point it at a wrong address, to see an alert arrive.
Menus change, so these steps say what to do rather than where to click. Each company's help pages have the current screens.
Watch out for
- Use a dedicated channel so alerts aren't buried in conversation.
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