Integration
Email and webhooks integrationWhat it reads
Send cloud alerts by email, to your own HTTPS webhook, or to Teams, Discord, PagerDuty and more. Private addresses are refused; webhook URLs are never shown.
Email alerts are on every plan, including Free. How many uptime checks can feed them is what changes by plan; see pricing.
What does MarshalCloud do with Email and webhooks?
- Email: the alert, with what happened and what it is likely to cost, in plain words.
- Webhook: one versioned JSON message per alert, signed with a secret and posted to an HTTPS address you own, with a link back to the alert.
- Other destinations: Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat and Mattermost, and PagerDuty or Opsgenie for paging. A phone call or text message works only where phone paging is switched on; otherwise a phone number is refused rather than saved.
Read-only is the default everywhere. A fix is drafted, priced and explained, and then waits for a person to approve it.
What MarshalCloud never does in Email and webhooks
- A webhook address must be public HTTPS. An address that resolves inside a private network is refused, and the address is re-checked on every send.
- Your webhook URL is never shown back: the interface shows the host, and a failed delivery records the type of error, never the address.
- Notifications are rate-limited, so an alert storm cannot bury you.
How do you connect Email and webhooks?
- 01Add a channel in alert settings: an email address or an HTTPS webhook address.
- 02Send the test message. It really sends, and shows the masked address it went to.
- 03Choose what routes to it.
Questions about the Email and webhooks integration
01What does MarshalCloud send to a webhook?
One versioned JSON message per alert, describing what happened and how severe it is, with a link back to it. It is signed with a secret so your receiver can check it came from us, and posted only to an HTTPS address you own.
02Can MarshalCloud page someone by phone?
Through PagerDuty or Opsgenie, whose own schedules decide who is woken. A direct phone call or text message works only where phone paging is switched on; where it is not, adding a phone number is refused, so you are never left believing a number will ring when it cannot.
03Is my webhook address ever exposed?
No. The webhook URL is never shown back, only its host, and a failed delivery records the type of error rather than the address.
Connect Email and webhooks read-only
Email, your own HTTPS webhook, and other chat and paging tools.