Uptrends monitors can generate alerts when an error is detected. Those alerts can be sent to a range of so-called integrations: you can use integrations with e-mail, SMS/text messages, phone calls, Slack, PagerDuty and StatusHub.
When we detect errors for your monitors, we’ll generate alert events according to your alert definition settings - an Error alert when the alert first appears, and an OK alert when the alert is resolved again. You can see those alerts in the Alert status and Alert log dashboards.
Aside from appearing in those dashboards, alerts are typically meant to generate alert messages - sent to your e-mail, your mobile phone, your on-call team member’s pager, or any third party software you and your team members are using to manage incidents and share information with.
This feature has been part of Uptrends for ages, but it was never really visible where each message was sent, who should have received it, and when.
Our new Alert message logs are putting an end to this. When you open up the details of an alert in any of the aforementioned dashboards, you’ll notice a Messages tab in the popup. That tab will list all of the messages that were generated based on your integration settings. For example, you might see that we sent out an alert via e-mail (and to which recipients), via SMS, to a Slack channel, and via a custom integration that connects to your IT management system.