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Alerting
12 articlesSend alerts to email, chat apps and webhooks, and decide who gets what.
- Notification channels A notification channel is a place where we send alerts, for example an email address or a Slack channel. Open Alerting in the sidebar, under Communicate. The page has three parts:... 4 min read · Updated Nov 1, 2026
- Routing rules and the delivery log Routing rules decide which channel gets which alert. The delivery log shows what we sent. 3 min read · Updated Oct 31, 2026
- Email notifications Your first team gets an email channel for your own address. That channel is already confirmed. 1 min read · Updated Nov 12, 2026
- Slack notifications Add one Slack channel in the app for each Slack webhook. Then add a routing rule for each monitor. 1 min read · Updated Oct 31, 2026
- Discord notifications Discord gets downtime, recovery, SSL certificate, DNS and scan alerts. It does not get performance alerts. 1 min read · Updated Oct 31, 2026
- Telegram notifications Telegram alerts come from our bot, @UptimeVanguardbot. 1 min read · Updated Oct 31, 2026
- Webhook notifications A webhook channel sends each alert as JSON to a URL you control. 2 min read · Updated Nov 1, 2026
- SMS notifications SMS alerts go through your own SMS provider account: Vonage, Twilio or CM.com. Your provider bills the messages; UptimeVanguard never charges for SMS. 3 min read · Updated Nov 1, 2026
- Microsoft Teams notifications We post alerts to a Teams channel through a Workflows webhook. Microsoft retired the old Office 365 connector URLs (outlook.office.com and .webhook.office.com), and we refuse them. 1 min read · Updated Nov 1, 2026
- Google Chat notifications Your Google Workspace administrator can turn off incoming webhooks. If you do not see Webhooks, ask them. 1 min read · Updated Nov 1, 2026
- PagerDuty notifications We send events to the PagerDuty Events API v2. Each check opens one PagerDuty incident when it fails, and the recovery resolves that incident. 1 min read · Updated Nov 1, 2026
- ntfy notifications ntfy sends push notifications to the ntfy app on your phone or desktop. Use the public server ntfy.sh or your own server. 2 min read · Updated Nov 1, 2026