Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Now Integrates with PagerDuty

PagerDuty is proud to announce an integration with Rackspace Cloud Monitoring, a system that allows you to monitor your critical systems even if they are hosted on a distributed environment.  Now that the powers of Rackspace Cloud Monitoring and PagerDuty have been combined, you now have the best of monitoring and alerting systems available, ensuring that your team is notified of critical events with your systems.

Getting Started

In order to utilize this new integration, you will need a PagerDuty and Rackspace Cloud Monitoring account.  Follow these links to sign up for accounts at PagerDuty and Rackspace Cloud Monitoring.  To configure your integration you can follow our easy Rackspace Cloud Monitoring Integration Guide.

Integration in Action

First you must configure a Monitoring Check for your system within Rackspace Cloud Monitoring. After an alert has been triggered, you’ll see the incident within PagerDuty.

To get additional details as to the contents of the alert, simply click on ‘View Message’ and all of the information from Rackspace Cloud Monitoring will be displayed for you.

If you have any questions or issues, don’t hesitate to contact us at support [at] pagerduty.com.