Discord Alerts
What the Discord channel does
The Discord channel posts a message to a channel on your Discord server whenever a check fails, recovers, runs degraded, an SSL certificate is about to expire, or a domain registration is about to expire. It is a good fit for communities and small teams that already coordinate in Discord. Discord alerts are sent on paid plans only; on the Free plan you can save the channel, but nothing is posted to Discord.
Get the webhook from Discord
- In Discord, open Server Settings, then Integrations, then Webhooks.
- Click New Webhook, pick the channel it should post to, and copy the webhook URL (it looks like
https://discord.com/api/webhooks/...).
Add the channel in LoadFocus
- Go to the Alert Channels page.
- Click New alert channel and choose Discord in the channel list.
- Give the channel a Name and paste the Webhook URL. It must be a Discord webhook URL, starting with
https://discord.com/api/webhooks/. - Click Save channel.
Shortly after the channel is created, LoadFocus sends a one-time confirmation message to the Discord channel and the channel's status changes from "Confirmation pending" to "Confirmed". To send another test message at any time, click Test on the channel's row.
Attach it to your checks
The channel is available to your whole team. Select it in a check's notification settings to route that check's alerts to Discord, see Alert Channels on a check. The same channel can also carry load testing and page speed alerts.
Troubleshooting
- No confirmation message: re-copy the webhook URL from Discord; if the webhook was deleted on the server, create a new one and update the channel.
- Wrong room: the target channel is a property of the Discord webhook itself, so change it in Discord's webhook settings (or create a second webhook and a second LoadFocus channel for another room).
- Team members with a view-only role can see channels but cannot create or delete them.