Integraciones
DataScope & PagerDuty

Notifications are bad enough on your phone, with it buzzing every five minutes to tell you about a new txt message or Facebook like or email. If you're not careful, it's easy to let the important messages get lost in the flood.For your company, that can be crucial. If you're relying on notifications from a half-dozen monitoring tools—and happen to miss the notifications from one of them—you miss the chance to fix problems and get things working again quickly. That's why PagerDuty is designed to bring all of your important infrastructure notifications into one place.Read MoreIt doesn't monitor your site and apps itself—and today, just monitoring your site's uptime isn't enough. Instead, it integrates directly through your app's API or with direct connections to over 200 services—and hundreds more through PagerDuty's Zapier integrations—to centralize all of your notifications and route them to the right person. Or, you can connect with email to pull notification messages in from legacy applications.You'll start by adding escalation policies and your team to PagerDuty. Organize your team members and list how you want to deal with certain type of issues. Say your email services are down—but the rest of your site is up. You'd want that issue to go to a different team than when your main website is down, say. And if the email service didn't get fixed within a day, you might need to notify another team to make sure the issue gets resolved. Think through the way your team works through issues like these, and codify them into escalation policies. And make sure to list your team member's real schedules, as PagerDuty will use that to decide who to notify when things go down.Then, when you add services for PagerDuty to monitor for incidents, you can select the correct escalation policy that fits that service without having to re-specify things every time. You can have PagerDuty group alerts with other services, automatically resolve issues after a certain time, and more depending on what you need.Planning maintenance? You don't want tons of notifications alerting you to downtime when you know it's going to happen. So you can schedule that, too, in PagerDuty. Select the services you know will be down along with the time, and PagerDuty will wait before notifying you if anything's wrong.Sometimes things really will break, and that's when PagerDuty will jump into action. It'll follow your escalation policy, notifying the right person or team about the issue with an in-app message, SMS, or phone call, and combining similar issues so you don't get overwhelmed with notifications. Or, it can notify your team inside Slack and other apps you rely on, to make sure issues are seen by the full team. You can then dig through the issue details in PagerDuty, check other services to see if there's a broader issue, and look back at historical trends to see if this is something that keeps popping up.It might be fun to have a NASA mission control-style room filled with screens monitoring every part of your software—but it's not that practical. PagerDuty can do a much better job watching all of your services, making sure you know when you actually need to fix something—and don't get so overwhelmed with notifications that you forget to pay attention to them.