Observium

Send alerts to Squadcast from Observium

Observium is a low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform supporting a wide range of device types, platforms, and operating systems, and focuses on providing a beautiful and powerful yet simple and intuitive interface to the health and status of your network.

Route detailed monitoring alerts from Observium to the right users in Squadcast.

How to integrate Observium with Squadcast

In Squadcast: Using Observium 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.

2. Select Observium. Copy the displayed Webhook URL to configure it within Observium. Finish by clicking Add Alert Source -> Done.

Important:

When an alert source turns Active, 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. An Alert Source is active if there is a recorded incident via that Alert Source for the Service.

In Observium: Create a Squadcast Webhook

(1) From the first option in the top bar, select Contacts

(2) Select Add Contact to add a Webhook

(3) Fill out the details as below:

  • (a) Transport: Select Webhook from the drop-down

  • (b) Description: Give it a name, such as, Squadcast Webhook

  • (c) URL: Paste the previously copied URL from Squadcast

  • (d) Click on Add Contact

(4) Navigate to the newly created Contact and associate the required Alert Checkers and Syslog Rules that should use this Contact to notify you for alerts

(5) Navigate to your Alert Checkers and enable Send Recovery option to send recovery alerts signals to Squadcast

That is it, you are now good to go! Whenever an alert is triggered in Observium, an incident will be created automatically in Squadcast. When an alert is resolved in Observium, the corresponding incident gets auto-resolved in Squadcast as well.

FAQ

Q: Do Syslog alerts from Observium get auto-resolved in Squadcast?

A: No, Observium does not send auto-resolve signals to Squadcast for Syslog alerts. Hence, Squadcast incidents for Syslog alerts should be resolved manually.

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