Alert Setup
Choose how and when a heartbeat monitor notifies you when a job misses its schedule.
A heartbeat monitor alerts you when an expected ping doesn’t arrive — the failure no error page shows. Set up where those alerts go.
Attach channels
An alert channel is a reusable destination you create once and attach to any monitor:
- Slack — see Slack integration.
- Email — alert an address or group.
Microsoft Teams, Discord, SMS, voice, and webhooks are coming soon.
When alerts fire
- Missed beat — the ping didn’t arrive within the schedule plus grace period.
- Failed run — the job pinged with
?status=fail. - Ran too long — a
startwith nocompletewithin the max duration (if configured).
Re-notify
Send a reminder on an interval while the job is still overdue, so a missed nightly run doesn’t go unnoticed until morning.
Recovery notifications
When the next expected ping arrives on time, Spectra sends an all-clear.
Reduce noise further
Use quiet hours and severity filters to control which alerts reach a channel and when — while critical alerts always come through.
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