Features page (notifications) — Oh Dear

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• Free trial Report an error

  “10-DAY FREE TRIAL · NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED”

• No feature tiers Report an error

  “Notifications come with every Oh Dear check on every plan. Choose by the number of sites you monitor, not by which channels you need.”

• Unlimited destinations Report an error

  “Unlimited notification destinations”

• Notification channels count Report an error

  “12 NOTIFICATION CHANNELS”

• Notification channels list Report an error

  “12 channels: email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Telegram, SMS, Pushover, ntfy, PagerDuty, Opsgenie and webhooks.”

• Default email notification Report an error

  “Every new account starts with an email notification to the address you signed up with.”

• Uptime second location verification Report an error

  “Uptime failures are verified from a second location first.”

• Routing levels Report an error

  “Add destinations at four places: the team, a single site, a tag, or a tag group.”

• Tag group wildcards Report an error

  “Wildcards match naming conventions: production* also matches production-eu and production-us.”

• Acknowledge duration options Report an error

  “Five minutes 30 minutes An hour Four hours A day A week Tomorrow at 09:00”

• Recovery notification Report an error

  “The recovery notification still comes through, and ends the acknowledgement. PagerDuty incidents and Opsgenie alerts are resolved for you.”

• Snooze feature Report an error

  “Snooze. For planned work on a healthy check, set from the check page in Oh Dear. It mutes everything, recovery included, until the timer runs out.”

• Per destination event filtering Report an error

  “Each destination picks the events it receives and the hours it receives them.”

• Business hours routing Report an error

  “Set your team's business hours. Then choose per destination: all hours, only inside business hours, or only outside them.”

• Maintenance periods Report an error

  “Plan a maintenance period and Oh Dear sends no notifications for that site while it runs.”

• Failed delivery pause Report an error

  “When a destination can't be reached for over a day, we pause it and email your team, so a dead webhook or Slack token doesn't fail quietly.”

• Site destination override Report an error

  “A site can also stop the team, tag and tag group alerts for a channel, so only its own destinations on that channel fire.”

• Sms via vonage Report an error

  “SMS goes through your own Vonage account.”

• Pushover ntfy priority Report an error

  “Pushover and ntfy let you set a priority, and ntfy works with ntfy.sh or your own server.”

• Webhooks signed Report an error

  “Oh Dear sends a JSON POST to your endpoint for each event the destination accepts. Every request is signed with your team's secret in the OhDear-Signature header.”

• Webhook retries Report an error

  “If your endpoint does not answer with HTTP 200, we try again, up to three times in total.”

• Status page for clients Report an error

  “Not by default. Notifications go to the destinations you set up, which are usually your own team. To keep clients informed during an incident, use a public status page.”

• Notifications not checks Report an error

  “Notifications do not check anything themselves; they carry the findings to the right people.”

• Multi destination simultaneous Report an error

  “Yes. Add as many notification destinations as you like and mix them freely: a single check can ping your team's Slack, email a client, and page whoever's on call through Opsgenie, all at the same time.”

• Docs Report an error

  “Read the notifications documentation →”

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