Text a confirmed outage
The message goes out once enough independent EU locations fail the check often enough in a row, not on the first failed request; both thresholds sit in your package.
Use Uptimeify with SMS.
For the outage that must not wait until somebody opens a laptop, on the one channel that works without an app, an account or a network.
What lands on the phone
Everything the alert pipeline sends by SMS is on this list, and nothing beyond it. Read it once and you know what your team will see.
Text the recovery
A resolved incident is always messaged as a recovery, whatever the job that triggered the send was originally for.
Reach the numbers you name
Numbers on the channel win, and without them the message follows the notification targets of the client and your organisation.
Spend the monthly allowance first
Your plan's included messages are used up before anything counts as an extra, and what is left is tracked as it is sent.
Stop at the cap you set
A monthly spending cap in cents ends the sending when it is reached, so a flapping site cannot run up a bill overnight.
Log every message
Each message is recorded with its recipient and the price at the moment it was sent, so a later invoice can be traced line by line.
Mask numbers in the log
Phone numbers are shortened before anything is written to the operational log, so an alert never spreads a private number.
A number per monitor
Each channel has its own recipients, so a client's outage reaches the person on call for that client instead of everyone.
Send a test message
The dashboard sends a test while you set it up, so a mistyped number is caught before the first real outage.
Teams that run their monitoring on Uptimeify
Minutes to set up. Then it runs on its own.
1. Add an SMS channel
In the alerting settings create a channel of type SMS, nothing has to be installed on the receiving phone.
2. Name the numbers
Enter the numbers in international format, or leave them empty to follow the notification targets of the client.
3. Set the cap and test
Set the monthly spending cap, assign the monitors the channel covers, and send the test message.
Before you add the SMS channel.
A monthly spending cap in cents that you set yourself. When it is reached the sending stops, and the decision is taken under a lock so two outages at once cannot both slip past it.
Your plan's included messages are spent first. Anything beyond them is an extra at your plan's per-message price, and both are counted as they are sent rather than estimated afterwards.
Yes. Every message is recorded with its recipient and the price at the moment it went out, so a later invoice can be checked line by line.
Only shortened. Phone numbers are masked before anything is written to the operational log, so a private number does not travel with an alert.
Yes, this is the one that does. The monthly SMS and voice allowance is part of your plan, which is exactly why the spending cap exists.
Every urgent alert, on the phone already in a pocket.
Add an SMS channel, and the outages that cannot wait reach the phone that is already in a pocket.