🔔 Alerts & Notifications
Configure alerts, email notifications, and webhooks.
Setting Up Email Alerts
## Getting Started with Email Notifications Email alerts are essential for maintaining awareness of your server infrastructure without constantly checking your dashboard. Server Scout's notificati...
Webhook Notifications
## What Are Webhooks? Webhooks are HTTP callbacks that Server Scout sends to your specified URL when monitoring events occur. Think of them as real-time notifications that push alert data directly...
Understanding Smart Alerts
Server Scout's smart alert system is designed to provide meaningful notifications whilst avoiding the constant barrage of false alarms that plague many monitoring solutions. By using intelligent th...
Creating Custom Alert Conditions
Server Scout's custom alert conditions allow you to monitor your servers precisely according to your requirements. Rather than relying on default thresholds, you can configure specific conditions t...
Global vs Per-Server Alert Rules
Server Scout's alert system provides flexible rule management through global and per-server configurations, allowing you to create sensible defaults whilst maintaining fine-grained control over ind...
Understanding Sustain and Cooldown Periods
Server Scout's alerting system uses sustain and cooldown periods to ensure you receive meaningful notifications whilst avoiding alert fatigue. Understanding how these periods work will help you con...
Integrating Alerts with Slack
## Setting Up Slack Integration Integrating Server Scout with Slack ensures your team receives immediate notifications about server issues directly in your preferred Slack channels. This guide wal...
Integrating Alerts with Microsoft Teams
## Overview Microsoft Teams integration allows Server Scout to send real-time monitoring alerts directly to your team channels. This guide walks you through setting up a Teams Incoming Webhook con...
Integrating Alerts with Discord
Server Scout can send alerts directly to your Discord channels, making it easy to keep your team informed about server issues in real-time. Discord accepts Slack-compatible webhooks with a simple U...
Integrating Alerts with PagerDuty
Connecting Server Scout with PagerDuty enables robust incident management and escalation for your server monitoring alerts. This integration ensures your team responds promptly to critical infrastr...
Alert Severity Levels and Escalation
Server Scout uses a three-tier severity system to help you prioritise alerts and respond appropriately to different types of issues. Understanding these severity levels and how to leverage them eff...
Viewing Notification History
Keeping track of your server alerts is crucial for maintaining system reliability and understanding patterns in your infrastructure. Server Scout's notification history provides a comprehensive log...
Troubleshooting Alert Delivery
When alerts aren't being delivered as expected, it can leave you in the dark about critical server issues. This guide walks through systematic troubleshooting steps to diagnose and resolve alert de...
Default Alert Conditions Explained
## Understanding Server Scout's Pre-Configured Alerts When you add a new server to Server Scout, the system automatically creates a comprehensive set of alert conditions to monitor critical system...
Understanding the Alert State Machine
Server Scout's alert system uses a sophisticated state machine to manage alert transitions, ensuring that notifications are both timely and reliable whilst minimising false positives. Understanding...
Testing Notification Channels
Server Scout's notification system is only effective when your alerts actually reach you. Testing your notification channels ensures that critical alerts won't disappear into the void when you need...
Webhook Payload Format Reference
Server Scout sends webhook notifications as HTTP POST requests with JSON payloads whenever alerts are triggered, resolved, or repeated. Understanding the payload structure allows you to integrate S...
Recovery and Resolved Alerts
## Understanding Recovery Notifications When Server Scout detects that a previously firing alert has returned to normal conditions, it automatically sends a recovery notification to inform you tha...
Setting Up Server Offline Alerts
## How Server Scout Detects Offline Servers Server Scout continuously monitors your servers by expecting regular data transmissions from the monitoring agent. A server is considered offline when n...
Monitoring OOM Kills and Systemd Failures
Out-of-Memory (OOM) kills and systemd service failures are critical events that can significantly impact server stability and application availability. Unlike typical resource monitoring that track...