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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

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.

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

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).

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

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