Comment on Show HN: Dead man's switch without reliance on your infraComments−grahamj1yNeat. We use OpsGenie to monitor our alerting infra and it has deadman/heartbeat support so something like that is another way to go.−adamdecafOP1yHow are they triggering the alert when the dead man’s switch isn’t tripped in time?−grahamj1yIt's basically an alerting platform so it's just what they do. It integrates with our alerting for things like metrics monitoring and it'll route the notifications based on on-call schedule etc. Deadman is just another way to trigger.
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Neat. We use OpsGenie to monitor our alerting infra and it has deadman/heartbeat support so something like that is another way to go.
How are they triggering the alert when the dead man’s switch isn’t tripped in time?
It's basically an alerting platform so it's just what they do. It integrates with our alerting for things like metrics monitoring and it'll route the notifications based on on-call schedule etc. Deadman is just another way to trigger.