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PagerDuty alerts

Send Glowo alerts into PagerDuty's Events API v2 for real on-call rotations.

If you have an on-call rotation, PagerDuty should be your critical channel. Glowo detects the problem; PagerDuty decides who to wake, escalates when they do not answer, and tracks the response.

Configuration

Field Value
routingKey An Events API v2 integration key

Getting a routing key

Open the service

In PagerDuty, go to Services and pick the service Glowo alerts belong to — or create one.

Add an integration

Under Integrations, add one and choose Events API v2.

Copy the Integration Key

This is the routing key. It is a secret.

Paste it into Glowo

Create a PagerDuty channel with the key and press Test — a test incident should appear on the service.

How incidents behave

Glowo sends a trigger event when a monitor goes down and a resolve event when it recovers, keyed to the monitor. PagerDuty therefore closes the incident by itself on recovery — you do not need to resolve it manually.

For that to work, the channel must be subscribed to both MONITOR_DOWN and MONITOR_UP. Subscribing only to MONITOR_DOWN leaves incidents open forever, which is the single most common misconfiguration here.

Where escalation lives

Escalation policies, on-call schedules and rotations are configured in PagerDuty, not in Glowo. Glowo’s job is to detect and report; PagerDuty owns who gets woken and in what order.

Practical notes

  • One channel per PagerDuty service. That keeps Glowo’s scoping aligned with PagerDuty’s routing.
  • Send MONITOR_DEGRADED to Slack rather than PagerDuty unless degradation genuinely warrants waking someone.

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