Get phone and SMS alerts fromOh Dear
Oh Dear watches your websites for uptime, SSL, DNS, broken links, scheduled tasks, and application health. Spike turns every Oh Dear alert into an incident — routed to the on-call engineer by phone, SMS, Slack, and email, with escalations if nobody responds, and auto-resolve when the check recovers.
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I use Oh Dear for monitoring and Spike for on-call and incident management. Walk me through connecting them: create a Oh Dear integration in Spike, copy its webhook URL, and add that webhook to Oh Dear alert settings. Then help me send a test alert to confirm incidents show up in Spike.
What is Oh Dear?
Oh Dear monitors the health of every website a team manages, including uptime, SSL, DNS, domain expiration, scheduled tasks, broken links, performance, Lighthouse, APIs and application health.
An Oh Dear alert on its own lands as an email or a chat message, which is easy to miss. Connected to Spike, every alert becomes an incident: the on-call engineer gets a phone call and SMS within seconds, the alert escalates to the next person if it goes unacknowledged, and duplicate alerts from the same monitor are grouped so a flapping check doesn’t spam the rotation. Because Spike reads Oh Dear’s recovery events, the incident auto-resolves the moment the check reports healthy again.
How to set up Oh Dear alerts
Every Spike integration is a unique webhook URL. Paste it into Oh Dear and alerts start flowing — no agents, no code.
Step 1: Create an Oh Dear integration in Spike
In your Spike dashboard, open Integrations and add Oh Dear. Spike generates a unique webhook URL for this integration — copy it.
Step 2: Add the webhook in Oh Dear
In Oh Dear, go to Team settings → Notifications, add a webhook, and paste your Spike webhook URL.
Step 3: Choose which monitors to watch
Select the monitors whose alerts should reach Spike. Each alert opens an incident so the right on-call responder is paged within seconds.
Step 4: Send a test alert
Trigger a check from Oh Dear. The alert lands in Spike as an incident, your on-call team is notified immediately, and the incident auto-resolves when the check recovers.
That's it — Oh Dear alerts now page whoever is on call.
