Alert Channels

Configure notification channels to receive alerts when checks fail, degrade, or recover. Choose from email, Slack, webhooks, PagerDuty, SMS, and custom integrations.

Alert channels determine how alert notifications reach your team when checks fail, degrade, or recover. Checkly supports a wide range of notification methods to fit your team’s communication preferences and operational workflows.

Available Alert Channels

Communication Platforms

• Email
• Slack
• Discord
• Telegram
• SMS
• Phone Call
• Microsoft Teams
• GitLab Alerts

Incident Management

• PagerDuty
• Opsgenie
• FireHydrant
• Incident.io
• Rootly
• ilert
• Splunk On-Call
• Spike.sh
• StatusPage

Custom Integrations

• Webhooks

Managing Alert Channels

Channel Configuration Overview

Configure channels with flexible subscription and filtering options:

1. Create Alert Channel

   Choose your notification method and provide connection details

2. Configure Alert Types

   Select which types of events should trigger notifications

3. Subscribe Checks

   Choose which checks and check groups use this channel

4. Test Integration

   Verify the channel works correctly with test notifications

Use Checkly’s alert notification log to track delivery success rates and identify any channels that frequently fail to deliver notifications.