Integrate Opsgenie with Monit

What does Opsgenie offer Monit users?

Stay connected when you're mobile

Monit users can leverage Opsgenie to receive notifications for critical alerts via SMS, phone calls, and iPhone & Android push notifications, and can respond to the alerts directly from their mobile devices using Opsgenie apps. Since Opsgenie is a cloud-based service accessible from anywhere, users don't have to have access to the corporate network (which is often) to be able to work with Monit alerts.

Consolidated alert & notification management

Monit users leverage Opsgenie to aggregate and manage alerts not only from Monit but also from other sources. Opsgenie enables users to maintain notification information and preferences, eliminating the burden to keep this information current and accurate in multiple disparate tools.

Alert lifecycle management

For Monit users, Opsgenie’s integration provides full alert lifecycle management capabilities. Users leverage Opsgenie not only to receive notifications for critical problems detected by Monit but also acknowledge alerts, take or assign ownership of the alerts, or comment on them rapidly no matter when and where they may receive the alerts. Opsgenie keeps track of all alert activity seamlessly: when the alert was created, who was notified when and how, whether and when recipients have seen the alert, acknowledged it, who executed which action, etc. Opsgenie also automatically closes alerts when host/service comes back up.

Alerts that empower

A short text message (SMS) typically used to notify users often fails to convey sufficient information to enable the recipients to assess the problem and determine the right course of action. Opsgenie alerts are not limited to a couple hundred characters of text, includes many fields, tags, and attached files. Recipients can not only see the alert message but all the supporting information, charts, etc. and figure out what to do next. Attach any information relevant to the alert and make it available to the recipients, either via the API or the web UI.

Integration

Opsgenie provides a number of easy to use integration methods (email, API, command line tools, programming libraries, etc.) to ensure all monitoring tools can be integrated with Opsgenie easily and Monit has a very flexible action and notification engine capable of forwarding alerts in number of different ways, hence integration is straightforward.

Monit delivers alerts via email. Using Opsgenie’s email integration, Monit alerts are forwarded to Opsgenie to notify users. Monit documentation describes how to configure Monit email alerts. Opsgenie processes these emails, create alerts in Opsgenie, and notify users as described here.