Pagerduty API service (alert)

This guide will walk through setting up a RESTful API service in pagerduty and call it using Advanced REST client tool.  You could of course use curl, but I prefer the Google Chrome Extension Advanced RESTClient.  If you are unfamiliar with the Advanced REST client tool I did a write up on it at http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2014/10/chrome-extensions-advanced-rest-client.html

This guide assumes you already have a pagerduty account and understand the basics, like how to create an escalation policy.  If you don’t check out my guide at http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2014/08/pagerduty-getting-started.html

Setting up a phone number to activate a pagerduty alert Version 1

This guide will walk through setting up a Twilio phone number which when called with send an email to a pagerduty email service.  This effectively gives you an emergency call number!  I call it version 1, because I feel there are far better ways to do this, but in the meantime this works.

Pagerduty add schedule to Google Calendar

This guide will walk through adding a pagerduty schedule to your Google Calendar.  (Its pretty easy to be honest)

Twilio: Twimlets continued

This guide will walk you through how to use Twilio's Twimlets to set up a password protected voice mail.  (only get record voicemails from people who have the pass code). 

I assume you already have a Twilio account set up (if not check out this post http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2014/09/twilio-getting-started.html )

This is my second write up on Twimlets, the first can be found at http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2014/09/twilio-using-twimlets.html

Twilio: using Twimlets

This guide will walk your through how to use Twimlets with Twilio.  I assume you already have a Twilio account set up

if not check out this post http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2014/09/twilio-getting-started.html )

Twilio getting started

This guide will walk through the initial set up of Twilio.  I will show you how to change your phone number, even during the free period, if like me you did not choose a good on in the first place.  This guide will stay simple its your first 15 minute guide and will not go deep, I will leave that for another guide.

Pagerduty talking to hipchat

This guide will go over setting up a webhook in a pagerduty service to send updates to a HipChat room.  When this is set up, correctly, whenever a service is triggered, acknowledgement, or resolved a message will be pushed to your HipChat room.

This guide will get you through getting a pagerduty service (alert) webhook

Pagerduty Adding Another Admin

This guide will show you how to make another user an admin in pagerduty.

Login to pagerduty

Login to pagerduty with a current admin account, you do not have to be on the account owner. 

Twilio Add an Admin

The owner of a Twilio account can add more admins to his account. This document will go over how to add a new admin to twilio.

A good resource on how to do this can be found here https://www.twilio.com/help/faq/twilio-basics/how-do-i-add-users-to-my-account [1].

HipChat Getting Stared

This guide will get you the very first steps in setting up HipChat and not much more (I want to keep it simple)

Pagerduty getting started

This guide will get you through signing up for a test account and setting up a rotating schedule with escalation policies

What is pagerduty ?

Pagerduty is a great tool for alerting your team of incidents in your system.  Its located at http://www.pagerduty.com/ [1].  There services can tie into several monitoring services, and when triggered can contact the proper on duty person on your team.