Pingdom Alerts

Service DOWN alert

  • check for which service the Pingdom alert is, it will be in the name of the alert

  • go to the Uptime for the service in Pingdom, click "Edit Check" and perform "Test check" manually to see if there is an issue.

  • you can look for the cause of the failed health check in the logs (laas) of the affected service

  • usually the healthcheck failure is related to issues with dependencies (postgres/mq/redis/…​)

Service UP alert

  • alert is automatically triggered by Pingdom when the service is back up

  • to disable the alert alert, go to the Uptime for the service in Pingdom, click "Edit Check" and disable "Alert when back up"