Better Stack incidents as push notifications
July 23, 2026 · 3 min read
Better Stack's uptime monitoring is excellent – but phone-call and SMS alerting live in the paid tiers, per seat. An outgoing webhook to a Webhooky endpoint gets you a loud, unmistakable push for every incident instead.
Setup
- Create an endpoint in the Webhooky app (Android / iOS) – “Uptime”, an alarm sound like
buzzer, default text “Monitor incident”. - In Better Stack open Integrations and add an outgoing webhook pointing at your endpoint URL (
https://api.webhooky.app/YOUR_KEY), triggered on incident started/resolved.
What the push says
Better Stack sends its own incident JSON (monitor, cause, timestamps) without title/message fields, so the push uses your endpoint's configured texts – the pager pattern: the buzz plus a distinct sound tells you everything urgent, details are one tap away in the dashboard. Since the payload format is theirs, check the field names in Better Stack's webhook docs if you want to inspect stored payloads.
Tips
- Two endpoints: “incident started” → loud buzzer, “resolved” → a friendly
level_up_2. Instant audio status without looking. - On-call without seats: everyone who should hear incidents installs Webhooky and gets their own endpoint added as another webhook – no per-user alerting fees.
- Self-hosting your monitoring instead? Uptime Kuma + Webhooky is the fully free stack.
Get Webhooky
Free for your first 100 notifications – set up your endpoint in two minutes.
