Observare now has five alert channels: email, SMS, Slack, Discord, and generic webhook. All included in the £5/month plan. No add-ons, no per-channel pricing.
Slack
Alerts arrive as colour-coded messages in any Slack channel you choose. Red sidebar for down/failed alerts, amber for flapping and SSL expiry warnings, green for recovery. Each message includes the alert subject, a short summary, and a footer with the monitor name and event type.
Setting it up takes about 30 seconds: create an Incoming Webhook in your Slack workspace, paste the URL into Observare, and assign the channel to your monitors. No OAuth flow, no Slack app to install, no permissions to configure.
Discord
Same pattern, different platform. Alerts arrive as colour-coded embeds in a Discord channel. Red for incidents, amber for warnings, green for recovery. The embed includes a title, description, colour-coded sidebar, and a footer with the monitor name and event type.
Setup: create a webhook in your Discord server settings (Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks → New Webhook), copy the URL, paste it into Observare.
Why we shipped both the same day
Slack and Discord webhooks follow almost identical patterns — you POST JSON to a URL, and the platform renders it. The difference is the payload format: Slack uses Block Kit with attachments, Discord uses embeds. Once the generic webhook infrastructure was in place, adding Slack and Discord was a matter of writing the right JSON shape for each.
This is the advantage of building the generic webhook channel first. It forced us to solve the hard problems (SSRF guard, payload format, dispatch wiring across all five monitor types) before adding platform-specific formatters. Slack and Discord were thin wrappers on top of infrastructure that already worked.
Five channels, one price
The full list of live alert channels:
- Email — branded HTML alerts to any verified email address
- SMS — text messages to a verified phone number (50/month included)
- Slack — colour-coded Block Kit messages via incoming webhooks
- Discord — colour-coded embeds via Discord webhooks
- Generic webhook — rich JSON payloads with 15 event types, optional HMAC-SHA256 signing
Every channel works with every monitor type: uptime, SSL, port, cron heartbeat, and Stripe webhook signature failures. Assign any combination of channels to any monitor.
WhatsApp is the last remaining channel on the roadmap.
If you want to try Observare, we’re in early access — reach out via the contact page and we’ll get you set up.