# Dead Man's Snitch

[<mark style="color:blue;">Dead Man's Snitch</mark>](https://deadmanssnitch.com/) is a monitoring tool used to easily monitor errors, cron, Heroku Scheduler, or any scheduled task.

Route detailed alerts from Dead Man's Snitch to the right users in Squadcast.

### Using Dead Man's Snitch as an Alert Source

1. Navigate to **Services** -> **Service Overview** -> select or search for your Service. Expand the accordion -> In the Alert Sources section, click **Add**.

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2\. Select **Dead Man's Snitch**. Copy the displayed **Webhook URL** to [configure](#create-a-squadcast-integration-in-dead-mans-snitch) it within **Dead Man's Snitch**. Finish by clicking **Add Alert Source** -> **Done**.

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{% hint style="warning" %} <mark style="color:orange;">**Important**</mark>**:**

When an alert source turns <mark style="color:green;">Active</mark>, it’ll show up under Configured Alert Sources. You can either generate a test alert from the integration or wait for a real-time alert to be generated by the Alert Source.\
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An Alert Source is <mark style="color:green;">active</mark> if there is a recorded incident via that Alert Source for the Service.
{% endhint %}

### Create a Squadcast Integration in Dead Man's Snitch

**(1)** Login to your **Dead Man's Snitch** dashboard and click on **Integrations**

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**(2)** Under **Available Integrations**, select **Squadcast** and click on **+ ADD**

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**(3)** Paste the previously copied Squadcast Webhook URL in the placeholder for **Integration URL**. Then click on **Save**

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You can also click on **SEND TEST** to test the alert. This will create a test incident in Squadcast.

That's it, you are good to go! Your Dead Man's Snitch integration is now complete. Whenever Dead Man's Snitch fires an alert, an incident will be created in Squadcast for it. Also, when an alert status has changed to **Healthy** in Dead Man's Snitch, the corresponding incident gets **auto-resolved** in Squadcast.

*Have any questions?* [*Ask the community*](https://community.squadcast.com/view/home)*.*