Alerts

Alerts notify your team the moment something goes wrong, and when it recovers.

Creating an alert

latency alert create \
  --monitor my-monitor \
  --channel slack \
  --on failure,recovery

Channels

Channel	Setup
Email	Verified address
Webhook	Any HTTPS endpoint (Hobby+)
Slack	Incoming webhook URL (Pro+)
Discord	Incoming webhook URL (Pro+)
SMS	Phone number (Pro+)

Alert policies

Policies let you define when to alert, e.g. only after 2 consecutive failures from at least 3 regions.

latency policy create \
  --name "strict" \
  --consecutive-failures 2 \
  --quorum 3

WARNING

Alerts without a policy will fire on the first failure from any single region.