All Alert Integrations

14+ Ways to Never Miss a Critical Alert

Connect Updown Monitor to the tools your team already uses. Pick one channel or combine several for redundant, reliable notifications.

 

Slack

Post downtime alerts directly to any Slack channel or direct message. Updown Monitor uses Slack incoming webhooks, so setup is fast and secure — no bot permissions or OAuth required.

Post to any public or private channel
Formatted messages with monitor links
Attach to multiple monitors at once
Recovery notifications included

Microsoft Teams

Send alerts directly into your Teams channels using incoming webhooks. Ideal for enterprise IT, education, and healthcare teams already standardized on Microsoft 365.

Works with any Teams channel
Formatted incident messages
No app approval needed
Attach multiple monitors

Discord

Push downtime alerts to Discord servers using webhooks. Perfect for gaming communities, open-source projects, and teams that live in Discord.

Send to any Discord channel
Rich message formatting
Great for game server monitoring
Free Discord webhooks

Google Chat

Send incident alerts to Google Chat spaces using incoming webhooks. A natural fit for teams running on Google Workspace.

Post to any Google Chat space
No extra app installs
Clean card-style messages
Attach to multiple monitors

Telegram

Route alerts through a Telegram bot to individual users or groups. Fast, free, and reliable — especially popular for indie devs and small teams.

Send to users or groups
Works anywhere Telegram does
No message cost
Clear status formatting

WhatsApp

Receive incident alerts on WhatsApp. Ideal for on-call rotations, solo developers, and teams in regions where WhatsApp is the primary messaging tool.

Direct messages to any number
Great for on-call rotations
Higher open rate than email
Works on any phone with WhatsApp

SMS (via Twilio)

Send text message alerts using your Twilio account. SMS works universally — no app install, no internet dependency for delivery confirmation.

Powered by Twilio
Works worldwide
Ideal for critical alerts
Standard Twilio rates apply

Phone Call (via Twilio Voice)

Wake up the on-call engineer with an actual phone call. When critical revenue endpoints go down at 3 AM, nothing beats a ringing phone.

Twilio Voice-powered calls
Text-to-speech incident summary
Reliable at odd hours
Great for revenue-critical alerts

Email

Classic email alerts with full incident details, failure reason, response codes, and direct links back to the monitor. Works universally — no setup required beyond the address.

Enabled by default
Full incident context
Multiple recipients supported
Recovery notifications

Webhooks

POST incident data to any HTTP endpoint. The universal escape hatch — bridge to PagerDuty, Opsgenie, n8n, Zapier, or any custom automation.

Send to any URL
JSON payload with full context
Trigger runbooks automatically
Bridge to any tool

REST API

Bidirectional integration: fetch monitor data, create monitors programmatically, or integrate Updown Monitor into your CI/CD and Terraform workflows.

Bearer-token authentication
Full CRUD for all resources
Export monitor data as JSON/CSV
Works with any HTTP client
View API Documentation

Browser Push Notifications

Receive real-time push notifications directly in your web browser and on mobile through our Progressive Web App. Great for passive, always-on awareness.

Browser-native push
Works on desktop & mobile
PWA-enabled status pages
Zero cost per message

X (Twitter)

Route incident alerts as direct messages via X. Useful for teams that run active X/Twitter presences for customer communication.

Direct message alerts
Works with X API credentials
Short, clear status updates
Attach to any monitor
 

Mix, Match, and Layer Alert Channels

Every monitor can have multiple notification handlers. Critical revenue endpoints get SMS + phone call. Everyday monitors get Slack + email. You choose.

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