Notification channels

Testomato can alert you about incidents in several places at once. You connect each service once, on your account, and then choose for every project which of the connected channels it uses.

Supported channels

Channel	What it does	How you connect it
Email	Sends alerts to your inbox	On by default
Browser push	Native alerts on your device, even when the tab is closed	Allow notifications in the browser
Slack	Posts incidents to a Slack channel	One click, Slack sign-in
Discord	Posts incidents to a Discord channel	Webhook URL
Google Chat	Posts incidents to a Google Chat space	Webhook URL
Microsoft Teams	Posts incidents to a Microsoft Teams channel	Workflows webhook URL
Telegram	The Testomato bot messages you or your group	Press Start in Telegram
Webhook	Sends incidents as JSON to any URL	Your URL
PagerDuty	Triggers on-call incidents	Service API key
Pushover	Push notifications to your phone	User key
Pushbullet	Push notifications	Access token
SMS (Twilio)	Text messages through your own Twilio account	Twilio credentials

Every connected channel except Email has a test button that sends a sample alert, so you can check the setup right away.

Connect a channel

Open the user menu, click Notifications and click the channel in Channels & integrations to expand it. The steps for each one follow.

Email

Email is connected from the start and alerts go to the address you sign in with. To send them somewhere else, enter a different address under Send to a custom address instead and click Save. Testomato emails a confirmation link to that address, and alerts go there only after you click it. Clear the field to go back to your sign-in address.

Browser push

Click Enable on this device and allow notifications when the browser asks. Each device and browser has to be enabled on its own; the enabled ones are listed under the channel, and you can remove any of them.

Browser push works in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera.

Slack

Click Add to Slack, sign in to your Slack workspace and pick the channel that should get the alerts. Testomato then shows the channel and workspace it posts to.

Discord

Discord alerts are posted through a channel webhook. You need the Manage Webhooks permission on the Discord server.

In Discord, open your server settings and go to Integrations → Webhooks.
Click New Webhook and pick the channel for the alerts.
Click Copy Webhook URL.
In Testomato, paste it into Discord webhook URL and click Save.

If the webhook is deleted in Discord, Testomato can no longer post. Create a new webhook and save its URL.

Google Chat

Google Chat alerts are posted to a space through its webhook. Incoming webhooks are available only in Google Workspace, not in personal Google accounts.

Open the Google Chat space that should get the alerts.
Open the space menu and go to Apps & integrations → Webhooks → Add webhook.
Name it, for example Testomato, and save it.
Copy the webhook URL.
In Testomato, paste it into Google Chat webhook URL and click Save.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams alerts are posted to a channel through a Workflows webhook.

In Teams, create a webhook with Workflows that posts to the channel for the alerts.
Copy the webhook URL.
In Testomato, paste it into Teams Workflows webhook URL and click Save.

Old connector URLs (webhook.office.com) no longer work.

Telegram alerts come from the Testomato bot, so there is nothing to copy or paste.

For yourself: click Open Telegram and press Start in the chat with the bot.
For a team: click Add to a group, pick the Telegram group and add the bot to it.

Testomato waits until you press Start and then shows the chat it sends alerts to. The link is valid for 10 minutes; if it expires, click Get a new link.

If you remove the bot from the group or block it, Testomato disconnects Telegram on its own. Connect it again to resume alerts.

Webhook

The webhook channel sends every incident as an HTTP POST with a JSON body to a URL you choose, so you can feed alerts into your own tools. Enter the URL in Your webhook URL and click Save.

Each request carries a plain-text summary in text and one entry per incident in attachments:

{
  "text": "…",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "type": "new",
      "testName": "…",
      "message": "…",
      "link": "https://testomato.com/…",
      "details": "…",
      "severity": "…",
      "fields": [{"title": "URL", "value": "https://example.com/", "short": false}]
    }
  ]
}

type is new for an incident that has just started and resolved for one that has ended. Resolved incidents add Started at and Resolved at to fields.

PagerDuty

In PagerDuty, click Add new service.
Name it, for example Testomato, and choose Generic API system.
Copy the Service API Key.
In Testomato, paste it into PagerDuty service API key and click Save.

Pushover

Open the Pushover app, copy Your User Key, paste it into Pushover user key and click Save.

Pushbullet

Open your Pushbullet account settings and create an access token if you don't have one. Paste it into Pushbullet access token and click Save.

SMS (Twilio)

Text messages are sent through your own Twilio account, so you need one first. You get a message when an incident starts and when it is resolved.

Copy the Account SID from your Twilio Console. It starts with AC.
Create an API key under API keys & tokens and enter its API key SID (starts with SK) and secret. You can leave the API key SID empty and enter your Auth Token instead.
Enter the Sender: a Twilio phone number, such as +14155550100, or a Messaging Service SID starting with MG.
Add up to five Recipient numbers in international format, such as +14155550100.
Click Save, then Send test SMS to check it.

Once a channel is connected, switch it on for your projects in Alert settings.