Status Cake and Pagerduty

Now that I have Status Cake set up and working, I want to see what if it can trigger a Pagerduty Alert.

I found this page https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/statuscake-integration-guide/ [1]   (but it is out of date do not use it!)

THIS POST IS OUT OF DATE use this one
http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2015/02/status-cake-pagerduty-redo.html

I am not going to go into how to set up Pagerduty and get its Service API key, I assume you already know how to do that for this document.  If you don't I have an article on how to do just that at http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2014/10/pagerduty-api-service-alert.html

Click on Create Integration

Select PagerDuty from the pulldown

Enter your Pagerduty Service Key, give it an alias and click "Add new 3^rd party notification service"

That adds a Pagerduty Notification.

Now you need to add the Pagerduty to a Contact.   Click on Contacts.

I already have a contact group named "TEST".   Click on it to open it for editing

Go to the Push Notification line.  If you select it a pull down menu will display all your 3^rd party notifications you have set up.   Select PD TEST

Click Save Changes.

Now when this group is alerted it will also trigger the Pagerduty alert.

I ran a test, taking down my system, and StatusCake alerted Pagerduty and I got a call!  I like it!

The only thing I have against it is this.   It will auto resolve pagerduty through the API calls.  I don't like that, when there is a serious pageable incident I don't want another service auto resolving.



UPDATE:  They fixed it! check out this post
http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2015/02/status-cake-pagerduty-redo.html 

References

[1]        Pagerduty StatusCake Integration

                        https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/statuscake-integration-guide/

                Accessed 1/2015

This post is a part of and epic, the pagerduty and twilio epic.

Epic Goal:   Set up a phone number, via twillio, that when called will set off a pagerduty event.