Alerting and notifications
Test alerts and recovery
Validate a monitor's alert configuration before you depend on it during an incident, and inspect the recovery information your responders will receive.
Before testing
- Open the monitor and enable alerts in Alert Configuration.
- For an alert test, configure at least an email address or an alert webhook.
- For a recovery test, enable recovery notifications and configure an email address or recovery webhook.
Test an alert
- Open the monitor's alert configuration.
- Select the alert test action.
- Review the returned channel payloads, including the failure reason, response context, regional confirmation, confidence, and incident link when available.
The action validates the configuration and prepares sample alert payloads. If an alert webhook is selected, GetPulseCheck sends it a test request with these markers:
event: monitor.alert.testtestEvent: trueliveEventType: monitor.alert
The test does not open a live incident or send a live email alert.
Test a recovery
- Keep alerts enabled and turn on recovery notifications.
- Select the recovery test action.
- Review the recovery payload, including outage duration, resolution time, affected regions, and the incident link when a resolved incident exists.
If there is no recent resolved incident, GetPulseCheck uses sample recovery timing and region data for the preview. The action validates the configuration and returns the payload; it does not resolve an incident or send a live recovery message.
Test PagerDuty separately
PagerDuty uses its own Send test alertaction in Account Settings. That action sends a test event to PagerDuty and updates the integration's Last tested time after success.