Notifiers

A notifier is a recipient (email) or notification channel (Slack, PagerDuty, webhook, data feed) to whichIBM® NS1 Connect® will send alerts.

Notifiers are defined within the notifier list, which is which is attached to an alert or monitoring job. You create, edit, or delete a notifier only through a notifier list. The same notifier can be used in multiple notifier lists. NS1 Connect supports the following notifier types:

Notifier type Details
Data feed For a monitoring job to automatically update the up/down metadata of its connected answer(s), you must attach a notifier list containing the data feed notifier.
Attention: Failure to include the data feed notifier in your notifier list prevents monitoring jobs that use this notifier list from updating answer metadata and breaking automatic failover configurations.
Email You can enter an email address to send an email alert in response to a triggering event.
Slack You can configure alerts from NS1 Connect to a Slack channel or user to receive alerts using a Slackbot username and webhook URL. Refer to Configuring a Slack notifier.
PagerDuty You can configure alerts from NS1 Connect to PagerDuty using a valid PagerDuty API key. Refer to Configuring a PagerDuty notifier
Webhook You can configure a custom webhook notifier to send alerts in the form of POST requests to a preferred monitoring service using a webhook URL. Refer to Configuring a custom webhook notifier.