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Great! Have been looking for something like this lately! First impression is good. But what i can't seem to find is a http notification. I would like a http alert if something is down for a x number of consecutive pings. This way i can do some API calls or implement my own alerting.

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Is that what you need? http://cabotapp.com/use/http-checks.html or open an issue on: https://github.com/arachnys/cabot

That's monitoring. Alerting seems only possible via Email, Hipchat, SMS and Telephone.

Understood. No it doesn't at the moment, would be trivial to add.

Primary author here. Please add an issue at https://github.com/arachnys/cabot/issues/new and we'll look into adding. (Essentially that's all Hipchat is).

I think the GP is referring to web hooks[1]. When an alert gets triggered, rather than sending out an email/sms/smoke-signal you'd do an HTTP POST to a URL. The receiver of the HTTP POST could then add there own custom alerting or hook it into an existing process.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hook

Yes, web hooks indeed.

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