SMS alerts when a host goes down
hostnag texts a short alert and a link to any phone number, on Business.
Included on Business.
Down
- Text
[Critical] https://www.example.com/ is down hostnag.com/ack/abababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab
- Length
- 124 characters, one segment
Set up
- 01
Add the number
An E.164 phone number, like +15551234567.
- 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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