DeadMansSnitch

Henrique Oliveira_5d1nrb

PagerDuty has an integration called DeadMansSnitch, which creates an alert when another alert is not firing.
Is there anything related in OpsGenie?
A basic use case, I have an alert that is always triggered, if I don't get that alert it means something in my alert pipeline is broken and I might not be getting alerts.

Nick Haller

Hi @Henrique Oliveira ,

Closest thing Opsgenie has to that would be Heartbeats.

The idea with Heartbeats is to ensure there is connectively established between your external systems and Opsgenie. If Opsgenie does not receive a "ping" from your external system over a specified amount of time, an alert will automatically be created to notify your users.

Heartbeats take the form of an email address so if your system or external tools can trigger emails, they can easily integrate with Opsgenie. Otherwise, you could configure some sort of job / script to ping the Heartbeat as well.