10 Ways to Get Alerted
Get notified where your team already works. Every channel delivers the same rich alert context — monitor name, status, response time, and direct links to investigate.
SMTP-based alerts with AI-enhanced templates. Supports multiple recipients per channel with detailed incident context, screenshots, and one-click actions.
- Multiple recipients
- AI-enhanced templates
- Incident screenshots
- Custom SMTP support
Slack
Real-time alerts in any Slack channel via incoming webhooks. Rich formatting with monitor status, response times, and direct links to incidents.
- Rich message formatting
- Channel-specific routing
- Direct incident links
- Status badges
Discord
Webhook-based alerts with embedded rich messages. Color-coded by severity — green for recovery, red for downtime, orange for warnings.
- Rich embeds
- Color-coded severity
- Server/channel routing
- Mention support
Instant WhatsApp alerts via Meta Cloud API. Pre-approved message templates for downtime, recovery, SSL expiry, visual changes, and server alerts.
- Instant delivery
- 6 alert templates
- Multiple phone numbers
- Server offline alerts
Telegram
Bot-based alerts to any Telegram chat or group. Lightweight, fast delivery, with formatted messages and direct links to your dashboard.
- Bot integration
- Group support
- Fast delivery
- Formatted messages
Microsoft Teams
Adaptive card alerts via Teams incoming webhooks. Structured format with actionable buttons for acknowledging and investigating incidents.
- Adaptive cards
- Action buttons
- Channel routing
- Thread support
PagerDuty
Trigger PagerDuty incidents directly from Visual Sentinel alerts. Integrates with your on-call schedules and escalation policies.
- Incident creation
- Auto-resolve on recovery
- Escalation policies
- On-call routing
OpsGenie
Create OpsGenie alerts with priority mapping. Route to teams based on alert severity with automatic resolution when monitors recover.
- Priority mapping
- Team routing
- Auto-close on recovery
- Tags and details
Webhooks
Send JSON payloads to any HTTP endpoint. Build custom integrations with Zapier, Make, n8n, or your own backend. Full event data included.
- Custom URL endpoint
- JSON payload
- All event types
- Retry on failure
Prometheus
Push alert metrics to Prometheus Alertmanager. Integrate Visual Sentinel alerts into your existing Grafana dashboards and alerting pipeline.
- Alertmanager integration
- Grafana compatible
- Metric labels
- Silence support
Build Custom Integrations
Every alert is available via our REST API. Create monitors, manage channels, query incidents, and build custom dashboards — all programmatically.
- Create and manage monitors
- Configure notification channels
- Query incidents and uptime history
- Trigger manual checks
- Manage visual baselines
{
"name": "DevOps Slack",
"type": "SLACK",
"config": {
"webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/..."
},
"alertTypes": [
"downtime", "recovery",
"ssl", "visual_change"
]
}Alert Types
Every notification channel supports all alert types. Choose which types each channel receives — route downtime to PagerDuty and visual changes to Slack.
Downtime
Site goes down or returns error status codes
Recovery
Site comes back online after downtime
Slow Response
Response time exceeds your threshold
SSL Expiry
Certificate expires within 30, 14, 7, or 1 day
DNS Changed
DNS records modified or hijacked
Visual Change
Page appearance changed beyond threshold
Content Change
Page content or markup modified
Server Alert
CPU, memory, or disk exceeds threshold
Server Offline
Server agent stops reporting
Performance
Core Web Vitals degradation detected
Never miss a downtime alert again
Set up your first notification channel in under 60 seconds. Free plan includes Email and Discord.
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