PagerDuty Integration - Critical Alerts

Real-time infrastructure monitoring for DevOps

Integration Setup

Configure Your PagerDuty Service

Connect StatusPulse to your PagerDuty account by generating an API integration key and mapping incident triggers. Follow these steps to route critical uptime failures directly to your on-call engineers.

1. Generate Webhook Endpoint

Navigate to StatusPulse > Settings > Integrations. Click "Generate PagerDuty Webhook" to receive your unique HTTPS endpoint. Copy this URL to paste into your PagerDuty service configuration under "Integration URL".

2. Map Incident Severities

StatusPulse automatically translates downtime events to PagerDuty severity levels. Critical HTTP 5xx errors and DNS resolution failures map to "critical". Degraded response times exceeding 2,000ms map to "error". Configure custom thresholds in the integration dashboard.

3. Validate Connection

Trigger a test alert from StatusPulse. Verify that PagerDuty acknowledges the payload within 300ms. Check your service dashboard for the "StatusPulse Monitor" integration tile and confirm the status reads "Active".

Escalation Policies

Route Alerts to On-Call Teams

Define how StatusPulse incidents escalate through your PagerDuty schedules. Align monitoring thresholds with your team's SLA commitments and prevent alert fatigue.

First Line: Platform Engineering

Initial alerts route to the #platform-oncall Slack channel and trigger a PagerDuty assignment to the primary engineer. StatusPulse includes hostnames, last successful ping, and error codes in the incident description for immediate triage.

Second Line: SRE Management

If acknowledgment fails within 15 minutes, PagerDuty escalates to the SRE lead schedule. StatusPulse automatically suppresses duplicate alerts for the same endpoint during active incidents to maintain signal clarity.

Auto-Resolution & Runbooks

When StatusPulse detects restored uptime for 3 consecutive checks, it sends a "Resolved" payload to PagerDuty. Attach runbook links directly in the integration settings to guide engineers through standard recovery procedures.