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Comment on: Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
Anyone who has done real engineering would realize that this problem a consequence of a design flaw with PagerDuty (or other alternatives with a similar API, where alerting is only triggered directly by a webhook).If your design requires that the alerting service can receive a one-off affirmative "something's broken" packet, then yes, you are asking an inherently unreliable distributed system (i.e. the Internet!) to reliably deliver a critical message at a time when you know something is broken. Good luck. :)Instead, if you use something like a periodic heartbeat (also known as a dead man's sw