Alert Setup

Alerts decide who hears about an unreachable host and when. Set them up per monitor.

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.

Alert timing

• Alert delay — notify only after the failure persists (e.g. after 2, 5, or 10 minutes).
• Re-notify — send a reminder on an interval while the incident is open.

Confirmation keeps it quiet

Before alerting, Spectra confirms the failure from 2+ regions and requires consecutive failures. A single dropped ICMP packet or a brief congested path never triggers an incident.

Recovery notifications

When the host is reachable again, Spectra sends an all-clear with the recorded downtime.

Reduce noise further

Use quiet hours and severity filters to control which alerts reach a channel and when — while critical alerts always come through.