I've used pushover for I think it must be a decade now for various notifications from monitoring systems and other alerts, and I've found it both easy to integrate and reliable, and a lot of things are pre-integrated. For more complex setups I've liked zenduty for including the sort of multi user scheduling, escalations, multi format notifications, etc. I like having a separate tool as you may want it to break through do not disturb, etc. and having either separate push based system or something that calls or sms's from a known source is a lot easier to make that happen than email or teams or another app you may want to silence except for that one important type of message, I mean you can in some apps configure that, but constantly adjusting those settings is usually painful. On 7/21/2025 12:42 PM, Jeff Shultz via Outages-discussion wrote:
With AT&T discontinuing their Email to SMS bridge and the others getting somewhat unreliable, what methods are people using to get alerts from their NMS and SNMP and other monitoring services and devices to make their phones squawk when something dies?
If I could trust my phone's gmail client to reliably notify me I might go that route, but as one of my co-workers put it, "it goes in waves."
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