When your site goes down at 3 AM, email won't wake you. Here's how to set up a proper multi-channel alert pipeline that actually gets someone's attention.
Multi-Channel Alerting: Why Email Isn't Enough
Your monitoring tool detects an outage. It sends an email. Nobody sees it for 4 hours.
This is the number one reason monitoring setups fail — not detection, but delivery.
The Alert Delivery Problem
Different incidents need different urgency levels:
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