Microsoft Teams Alerts
What the Microsoft Teams channel does
The Microsoft Teams channel delivers monitor notifications to a Teams channel through an incoming webhook: check failures, recoveries, degraded runs, and upcoming SSL certificate expiry. Alerts show up in the channel your team already watches.
Get the webhook from Teams
- Follow Microsoft's guide to create an Incoming Webhook for the Teams channel that should receive alerts.
- Copy the webhook URL Teams generates.
Add the channel in LoadFocus
- Go to the Alert Channels page.
- Click New Alert Channel and choose Microsoft Teams in the channel list.
- Give the channel a name and paste the webhook URL.
- Click Save Configuration.
Right after the channel is created, LoadFocus sends a one-time confirmation notification to the Teams channel so you can verify delivery. There is no separate test button.
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 Teams, 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, and check the webhook still exists in the Teams channel's connectors; Teams admins can remove them, and Microsoft has been migrating legacy connectors, so recreating the webhook per the linked guide is the quickest fix.
- One webhook targets one Teams channel; for alerts in several rooms, create one webhook and one LoadFocus channel per room.
- Team members with a view-only role can see channels but cannot create or delete them.