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Notifications

ARGUS posts to a webhook when something happens that a person should know about. Configure it under Settings → Notifications.

Configuring the webhook

Set the webhook URL and save. Leaving the field blank keeps the current webhook unchanged; to remove one, use the explicit clear option rather than blanking the field.

Point it at whatever your team already watches — a chat integration, an alert router, or your own receiver.

What it is for

Notifications are for things that stop progressing without a person:

  • a high-severity incident opening
  • a plan waiting for approval, and one that has been waiting too long
  • an execution that failed
  • a pull request that has sat unmerged
  • a validation that could not confirm an outcome, or an incident reopening

A plan that has been in the queue for days is escalated rather than silently waiting, so an approval queue nobody is watching becomes visible instead of becoming a backlog.

Keep it narrow

Route notifications narrowly at first. A quiet, trusted channel is more useful than a busy one people learn to ignore, and ARGUS is capable of being noisy on a fleet that has not had its detector settings tuned.

If notifications are too frequent, the fix is usually upstream: tune detectors, add tolerations for accepted conditions, or set storm protection. See What ARGUS detects.

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