Alert Outputs

An Alert Output is a destination for alert messages: who or what gets notified when an alert rule fires. Outputs are created once and reused: one “Maintenance team” output can serve twenty rules.

Go to the Alert Rules page and click:

Output types

Email

Sends the alert to one or more email addresses. The simplest way to reach people. Add the addresses as recipients; use a team address so the notification does not depend on one person.

Sends the alert to a Telegram chat — the fastest way to get alerts on phones, also in a group chat for a whole team.

You need a bot token and a chat ID:

Create a bot with @BotFather in Telegram and copy the bot token.
Add the bot to your group (or start a chat with it).
Fill in the bot token and the chat ID in the output.

Webhook

Sends the alert as an HTTP message to any URL. Use this to connect other systems: a Teams or Slack workflow, a maintenance system, your own application.

Fields

Every output has a Name, a Description and a Default Title and Default Message. The default message is used by rules that don’t override it — set a sensible default like {{rule_name}}: {{value}}.

Testing

Every output has a test button: it sends a test message so you can check the delivery before a real alert depends on it. Test an output right after creating it — an alert chain is only as good as its weakest link.