SMS alerts when a host goes down

hostnag texts a short alert and a link to any phone number, on Business.

Included on Business.

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Down

Text
[Critical] https://www.example.com/ is down hostnag.com/ack/abababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab
Length
124 characters, one segment

Set up

  1. 01

    Add the number

    An E.164 phone number, like +15551234567.

  2. 02

    Business plan only

    SMS is included on Business; on other plans the channel type is listed but disabled, marked as needing a higher plan.

What arrives

Rendered by the same code that sends it.

Back up

Text
[Recovered] https://www.example.com/ is back up after 1 h 15 min hostnag.com/ack/abababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab
Length
145 characters, one segment

Routing

Every alert follows the group's alert policy: which channels a route goes to and the minimum severity each one takes, in bands of critical, warning and info. Quiet hours hold non-critical alerts for email, Slack, Discord, SMS, Teams and Telegram until the window closes, then deliver one digest; critical alerts are never held, and webhook, PagerDuty and Opsgenie always deliver right away since they hand off to another machine, not a person. A maintenance window on a group or a monitor suppresses alerts for its duration while checks keep running. An alert nobody acknowledges escalates through up to three tiers, each after its own number of minutes, and can be acknowledged with one tap from the alert message itself.

Questions

Why is SMS Business only?

Carrier costs are per message; hostnag reserves it for the plan with the highest monitor and seat limits.

How long is the text?

One segment, 160 characters including a link, with the title shortened first if it does not fit.

Watches

Add a host. Hear about it in SMS.

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