ilert Release Notes
This page contains release notes for new features and improvements released after April, 2020.
Last updated
This page contains release notes for new features and improvements released after April, 2020.
Last updated
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These notes get usually updated retrospectively within the first 2 weeks of the following month
ilert search is now out of closed beta and available to all ilert users
The ilert dashboard is now available to all ilert users in its editable mode, you can now create, customize and share your own dashboards with specific users or the whole account
We have introduced a new feature to the alert resolve bulk action that automatically suggest similar open alerts based on ilert AI
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Github action check runs have been fixed to include the Failure subtype
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We have launched a new type of status page: "Audience specific" use it to let your status page show services and incidents dynamically based on the context of the current viewer
We have completely overhauled the critical alert push notification experience on Android devices, now allowing for the same smooth in-app setup as iOS users have already experienced for the last years
the ilert Microsoft Teams bot now automatically adds user replies (text, links and images) to the alert card thread in the chat tool as comments to the related ilert alert. (Note that this only works if your users in ilert are using the same email addresses in both tools and for images to be rendered properly they need to be marked as public/shared)
the Header header banner messages have been moved to a new API to longer affect UI performance
we have fixed a performance issue that occured on on-call schedules with a huge amount of overrides
We have added a new inbound integration ClusterControl
We have added a new inbound integration NetData
We have improved the Samsara integration experience
We have improved the UptimeRobot integration experience
The 4me inbound integration now supports automation rules
The Cloudwatch inbound integration now supports test notifications (even if invalid JSON is provided)
We have added a new feature to status pages: Announcements, you may now add announcements to your page and the widget
We have finalized our migration of all alert source event integrations to the new events API, enabling the event explorer feature for 99% of integrations (HTTP request validation is slightly more strict, keep an eye out for your custom integrations, especially if you are unsure about: utf-8 compatibility, content-type / host header or API key integrity; reach out to support if needed)
We have made ilert AI available for all customers, by providing a service that automatically chooses EU mainland hosted large language models on ilert infrastructure for EU customers, making all of the ilert AI uses cases available to every user (customers may still choose to opt-out, to deactivate the features)
The ilert Search BETA is now available for non ADMIN users as it now individually validates permissions to all search results on demand for the current user
ilert AI now automatically generates TTS audio content for your call flow node texts
We have introduced a new alert source detail view, which also provides insights into how effective grouping is used for the specific source
We have introduced a new inbound integration for Postman Monitors
We have improved the checkmk inbound integration to support additional event types
We have improved the GCP alerts (former Stackdriver) integration in support alert key extraction for GCP Error events
We have overhauled the event payload experience in the alert detail view, it now shows information in regards to grouping and expected future grouping, as well giving a pagination over all alert related events and not just the event that created the alert initially - it is also interlinked with the event explorer feature, helping you to jump right into the explorer at the point in time of the event
We have added a new alert action event type unresolved to act on alerts that have not been resolved in a given time window
We have added additional filters to the call flow session (Calls) view to filter for specific to-numbers as well as from-numbers
The public status page SMS subscribers experience has been overhauled
Errors during manual alert action triggers on alerts will now expose the original error message of the third party system
We have introduced a new inbound integration HetrixTools
We have introduced a new inbound integration Ubidots
We have introduced a new inbound integration KeepHQ
The Jira inbound integration has been improved, there is now an option to chose the behaviour in case of ticket reopenings
We have introduced new versions of the Slack and Microsoft Teams standalone webhook outbound integrations
We have introduced event filters for alert source, you can now add custom conditions to create or drop alerts
We have introduced the ICL ilert conditional language
We have introduced a new ilert AI feature event content similarity grouping for alert sources
Private status pages now support a new authorization procedure, through magic link emails, you can define one or multiple domains (or specific emails) to allow users outside of your ilert organization to access the private status page (look for email based login in the Authorization tab)
We have reworked the Jira outbound integration
The Stackdriver/GCP inbound integration now supports the Error reporting payload
The MongoDB inbound integration has been updated to support new event types
We have introduce a new inbound integration 4me
We have improved the alert source throttling API warning display and added it to the alert source list
We have reworked the setup flow for Alert actions and Connectors, admins will now find a hugely improved Connector UX
We have launched incident timelines that give fine grained audit insights into what has changed by whom on an incident during its lifecycle
We have launched call logs for call flows (call routing 2.0) providing fine grained audit insights into what has happend during and outside of the call
The incident list will now live update, similar to the alert list
We have added a new inbound integration: Victoria Metrics
We have added a new inbound integration: Honeycomb
We have improved the inbound Email integration, now providing custom alert templates e.g. to include the sender in the alert summary
We have launched Call Flows aka Call Routing 2.0 as closed BETA for selected customers, offering a completely new way to build and configure your call routing experience, reach out if you wish to join the BETA
AI assisted schedule creation is now in open BETA
We have added a new UI for Account owners and Admins to get information on the current plan, quota and usage of the account (find it via: Navigation -> Cog -> Usage and limits)
Public status pages now remind subscribers of their missing opt-in up to 1 week
Public status page subscriptions can now apply a filter to choose to subscribe to specific services only
We have added a new inbound integration: HaloITSM
We have added a new inbound integration: Kibana
We have reworked the Elastic Watcher integration
The Datadog integration has been improved
The reports API has been improved
The Slack and Microsoft Teams alert actions UI has been reworked
We have added HaloPSA as new inbound integration
We have added InfluxDB as new inbound integration
The NCentral integration has been improved
Alert actions v2 is now in GA, offering a global top level alert action experience, team ownerships and multiple alert sources per alert action
The Telegram integration has been improved
Alert sources now offer an Event Explorer to discover and debug event traffic as well as alert creation
Status page SMS opt-ins now use ilert's link shortner service
Private status pages now send notifications to public subscriptions in IP range scenarios
There is now an option to export Teams as CSV for admins
The User CSV export has been improved
The notification aggregation and suppression has been reworked, each notification channel now supports a unique suppression style e.g. voice calls now 3 per 3 minutes per alert source or push notifications now up to 20 per minute as long as their content is unique (find out more in Alerting -> Understanding event flows -> Notification aggregation)
AI assisted postmortems is now in open beta, enable ilert AI in the account owner's account settings and visit an incident to try it out
Status pages now support themes: feel free to switch to our new status page dark theme if it fits your branding
The repeating schedules API has been stabilised for Terraform use cases
We have launched ilert wrapped 2023 (check out your responder year recap, it will be available until 12.01.24)
We have introduced a new feature for SSO SAML users to prevent auto-provisioning on the SdP side for certain users called: provisioning required attribute
The integrations API has been reworked to support a better catalogue experience and more information in the app's wizards
We have improved the unverified contact log entries in the alert timeline to properly identify which contact was not verified
We have added dynamic priority templates to alert sources, using these you can extract payload fields from your events and map them to the priority of your alerts
We have added dynamic links templates to alert sources, using these you can extract links directly from the event payload of your alerts
We have added a faster way to login to the ilert mobile app using QR codes (you can find the link in the push token area of your notification preferences in the web app)
Over the lifetime of a recurring on-call schedule it can accumulate a large sum of ended layers, that can reduce performance, we have introduced a new layer archiving feature that automatically archives older ended layers, keeping the schedule fast.
We have added a localized public status page subscription experience for German status page visitors
We have added a new layout option for status page structures: responsive columns this works especially well when displaying a large amount of services on your status page or when you want to render your status page horizontally
The status page opt-in and opt-out pages are no longer landing pages on the global webapp (app.ilert.com) but instead are hosting on your status page directly, allowing for less of break of CI for your customers
In addition to the new status page responsive layout, you may now decide if a group should open by default, as well as defining to display the SLA graph or not unrelated to the service's SLA history setting
We have also added countless improvements to the rendering experience of status pages e.g. font or colors
New inbound integration: Tulip
New inbound integration: Graylog
New inbound integration: Catchpoint
New inbound integration: Loki
New inbound integration: Mimir
New inbound integration: Cortex
We have improved the Datadog inbound integration to support different event type flavors e.g. downtimes
MS Teams, Autotask and ServiceNow alert actions can now be more easily managed through the API
Support hours have been moved out of alert sources into their own entity, you can now share a support hour across multiple sources and use team ownerships to controll access
We have added a new Mute notifications feature in web and mobile app, responders can now mute their notifications for specified or customized time periods
The AI assisted incident postmortems feature has reached closed BETA, reach out if you are interested in using before its GA
We have introduced a feature that autmatically archives historical layers of large repeating on-call schedules, to keep performance steady no matter the use-case
Integration icon and logo generation has been reworked for web and mobile to improve performance of the UI
Reworked SMS notifications to allow for a better focus on alert summary content
Alerts in state ACCEPTED may now be accepted by responders that are not yet added to the responder list of the alert
Auvik alert creation has been improved (new fields)
The Grafana inbound integration now supports custom priority mapping based on label values
The Microsoft Teams bot now supports a new who is on call command (@iLert oncall) that can be customized for teams and channels using a Microsoft Teams alert source
The Microsoft Teams Activity Feed display information for the bot's cards has been improved
New alert action filter types have been added
Alert source templates (text form) are now available in Terraform
delayMin field for escalation policies
New alert source time based grouping options are now available in Terraform
The schedule detail view calendar mode now creates shareable URLs that include your calender configuration
Static schedules received multiple improvements for QoL and a new default shift start setting that is remembered for your user profile
Call routing speech detection has been improved for certain scenarios where the input was not properly detected
The alert comment (messages) UI has been reworked
Alerts can now be manually linked to incidents (and also unlinked from them)
Last activity in (admin's) user list is updated more frequently for web UI activity
Status page enduser facing email communication now resolves the status page name as friendly email from address
We have relaxed the view permission checks for Maintenance Windows a little (Note: edit permissions stay the same) it is no longer required to have a permission to access every single related alert source and service, but now sufficient to have access to a single one of those related entities
You can now provide custom time ranges for overrides in my-oncalls, giving you more flexibility if you want to override partial shifts
The subscription button on private status pages now adjusts its state asynchronously depending on the current viewer
We have added an additional step to prevent accidental deletion of resource like alert sources
You no longer need to lookup who's next in the escalation chain. You can now manually escalate alerts to an escalation level of your choice. The escalation process will resume from the selected level.
Ever wanted to take someone else's on-call, but not their entire week long shift, but only for a day? Now you can do this from the My on-call shifts (both in the web and mobile app) page when taking someone else's on-call and overriding your shifts. Until now, this was possible only on the on-call schedule itself.
This has been in the making for a while: we have completely overhauled our alert actions and connector UIs and APIs, giving tons of new QoL features like multi alert source assignments or team management to alert actions. We have launched the closed BETA and would love to hear your feeback on it - so if you are interested in trying it out just reach out via email or live chat.
A new inbound integration has been added for Particle
The Grafana inbound integration now supports the cluster alert label to build alert summaries by default
The ilert Slack bot now supports a new who is on call command ( /ilert oncall )
Create dedicated channels in Microsoft Teams to communicate alert updates
New /il-alert command to create alerts from within Slack - you can customize this feature for your team and Slack channels using a Slack alert source
The Slack bot now supports further alert based interactions such as raise, reroute, escalate etc.
You may now choose your primary phone number, if you are using multiple contacts. The primary phone number will be preferred when making call routing agent calls or showing your number to other users in on-call requests
You can now choose a specific timed window to group your alerts in your alert source e.g. group all incoming events for 5 minutes, until creating the next alert
The alert source creation process has ben overhauled, there is a now a wizard that guides through the most important steps of the setup
New inbound integration Twilio Errors
New inbound integration Uptime Kuma
We have overhauled and enhanced our Github inbound integration, you may now choose specific alert action types and event types for which to create or resolve alerts, we also do support Github Advanced Security type webhook events now
Grafana v9 Links have been optimized, instead of showing general instance links we prefer to show specific dashboard links now
It is now possible to turn an alert source bidirectional even though it was already created
You can now choosen to enhance Autotask inbound alerts with company details, by enabling the specific setting for your Autotask alert source in ilert
You may now choose if you want to receive full text alert details or short forms in Microsoft Team channel notifications, by adjusting the longDetails field in your MS Teams connector
Create dedicated channels in Microsoft Teams to communicate alert updates
Added new create alert feature to Microsoft Teams bot (note: you may optionally customize the behaviour using ilert Microsoft Team alert sources)
It is now possible to re-authorize your Microsoft Teams bot without removing your existing alert actions
Added a new text mode for alert source templates, you can use the top right icon in the input area to switch between text and block mode when creating alert templates
API key analytics are now available showing live API key resource usage for every user (Navi -> Profile -> Manage API keys) this feature also ships with an API resource for ADMINs to fetch account wide API usage information see https://api.ilert.com/api-docs/#tag/Reports/paths/~1reports~1api-keys~1usage/get
Maintenance windows are now also available in the mobile app
The alert creation view has been reworked to match the features of the web UI
Migrated the platform to a new infrastructure, improving performance, scalability and availability
New session management, allowing for more secure and longer running sessions
Added remember me option for even longer running web sessions
2-FA codes are now supported by the mobile app's login
We launched ilert AI, which adds advanced generative artificial intelligence features for responders along the incident management lifecycle
Updated Slack bot
Added new create alert feature to Slack bot (note: you may optionally customize the behaviour using ilert Slack alert sources)
New navbar widget for user onboarding and product updates
Improved performance of schedule UIs
Google Cloud Security Command Center inbound integration
Brand new alert source list and edit UI
Brand new call routing number list UI
Brand new maintenance window list UI
User list CSV export
Improved the Sentry inbound integration
New status field for Autotask outbound integration
Improved Autotask outbound company search, now dynamically fetching based on search input
Upgraded Jira outbound integration to dynamically detect Jira Cloud, Jira Server and other Jira versions and switch the API automatically so that old and new installations are seemlessly supported
We have launched a new feature for notification preferences: live test notification status
We have added additional states to our alert notification timeline events, that now allow you to (live) track the status of outbound alert notifications and see if they have been delivered to or (e.g. Whatsapp) read be the responder, they work seemlessly for all notification channels
We have launched an overhowl of our escalation policy list and detail views
We added additional details to delete dialogs across the platform
We have introduced the new ilert Free billing plan
The user list search has been improved
Alert email notifications links now come with an additional confirmation step
New Checkly inbound integration
Optimized Appdynamics inbound integration
Generic alert summary, details and routingKey templating with our new template editor for alert sources.
We have launched a complete re-work of our Notification Preferences feature
shiftColor is now supported in API
Public status pages may now receive unlimited subscriber imports in state INACTIVE, during activation a license with a fitting range of subscriptions is needed however.
We have enhanced the information in our /api/integrations resource
Cisco Meraki has been added as new inbound integration
We have optimized our PRTG inbound integration
You may now backfill incidents via the API
New on-call widget in mobile apps for iOS and Android
Improved maintenance window creation
Improved 2FA login experience
Further improvements to the ServiceNOW bidirectional integration
Status page service groups structure and metrics for Terraform
Improved version of the ilert browser extension
Metric data source credentials are now validated during creation
Status pages now support service groups
Dozens of new schedule override features that make it easier and faster to add overrides on the fly
Reworked My-on-calls features to take and pass on-call shifts
New end-of-escalation reached events for alert actions
Status page SMS and Webhook subscriptions
checkmk alert detail parsing has been improved
checkmk now supports custom detail labels
We have updated our platform to our new logo and CI
automation rules (alert -> incident) have been integrated into alert actions and may now be manually triggered or configured with conditional execution
Status pages will now automatically collapse large amounts of services, SLA data and uptime graph are fetched on demand by opening collapsed services
Prometheus metrics data source
new relic now supports the new workflow events
Prometheus inbound integration now supports the custom url and urlLabel labels (added as links to alert)
Microsoft SCOM inbound integration
Twilio Alarms inbound integration
New major milestone: metrics for status pages
PandoraFMS inbound integration
HashiCorp Cloud (HCP) Consul support
Terraform client now supports mulitple responders in escalation policies
Datadog metrics data source
ilert Backstage plugin has been updated to support mulitple responders, services and status pages
An initial delay can be configured for escalation policies
Private status pages now support IP whitelists
Service uptime history can now be managed and overwritten
Alert submit UI supports additional fields to overwrite: priority, policy or responders
Added MFA reset for Admin users
Jira alert sources now support Service Desk Events
Grafana alert sources now support Grafana V9 events
New features
This feature has been long-awaited by many customers: we have added support for Multiple Responders
=> Escalation policy rules now support multiple users and schedules
=> During the escalation of an alert all responders will be added to the alert
=> A user may request additional help of another responder on any open alert
We have added a new messenger for alert notifications: Telegram, users may connect their ilert account to their Telegram app and respond to alerts on their favorite messenger
We have added live updates to our alert list view
Status pages of a team can now be managed in the team admin view
Improvements
We have completely reworked the alert list view, users will now see additional information and improvements such as responders and their individual alert status, escalation policy filter, aggregation status of events for a specific alert, bulk resolve comments, highly reduced load and response times, deep links for filter configurations
We have completely reworked the user list view, admins have now access to new tools and filters that should help them with their day to day tasks: filter for roles, mfa status and team membership, pagination, highly reduced load and response times, deep links for filter configurations
Increased status page service limit from 30 to 100
Doubled the API rate limits for Terraform clients
Improved response time of team edit view
New and updated integrations
Increased amount of fetched companies for Autotask connectors to 1000 and added a search view to the selection
Other
Alert reports are now available in the professional plan, on-call reports stay a premium only feature
Maintenance windows now support services and appear on related status pages
Maintenance window now offer different types of notifications along their lifecycle when affecting services or status pages with private or public subscribers
ilert will now inform the owner of incidents (via email) that are publicly visible on status pages in case they have been pinned there for longer than 4 hours
Alert actions may now be cloned to other alert sources
We now support conditional execution for alert actions making it possible to filter and tune alert streams to webhooks or tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack
Now support incident list and detail views
Now support status pages and services
We have reworked the navigation as well as the stakeholder user experience
We have improved the performance for customers with a large amount of teams and users
we have introduced a new region field for users and adjusted all calendar and date/time relevant components to deliver a seemless localized experience
Our Zabbix native integration now supports severity mapping and bidirectional problem/alert acknowledgement
The service outage edit API is now available
All public facing incident communications emails now support beautifully crafted html email versions
We have introduced a new feature for private status pages to make them available to any user within an organization even if the entity itself is owned by a private team or hidden from stakeholders "Account Wide View"
we have launched a public roadmap
we have launched a completely new onboarding experience for new accounts
added a new subscription API endpoint for status pages to add or remove a single subscriber
the MFA status is now visible in the user list
browser caching of certain script and style resources has been optimized for faster page load
Samsara Inbound integration has been added
Conditional alert actions; you may now add additional filters to alert actions
Alert action duplication, you may now easily copy and paste an alert action to other alert sources
Call routing numbers may now use uploaded audio files to playback greeting, waiting and mailbox messages
New endpoints have been added to the API to support add and remove operations for single user/team private subscribers
Overall page load times have been reduced for the web-ui, especially for accounts with large user and team bases
Sentry inbound integration has been improved to support alert metric events
Autotask inbound integration has been improved to support new webUrl attribute for ticket link generation
SignalFX inbound integration has been improved to support better alert detail extraction
Status pages and Incident com 2.0 are now in GA
New alert creation API e.g. possible to target specific user
2FA and MFA are now available for every ilert user
Call routing is now available in Italian
Hyperping Integration
Paoloalto Networks Prisma Cloud Integration
We have launched private and public status pages in closed BETA.
We have launched dynamic alert actions (application hooks) in closed BETA.
User shift color (profile settings) is now used in all schedule visualisations
Status page editors now receive update notifications when the domain status of their page changes
IXON alert source now supports dynamic routing
We have launched the ilert developer platform, which enables you to create your own applications on top of ilert's uptime platform and share them with other ilert users.
Incident Communications 2.0 is now in public BETA for all Premium users.
Support for WhatsApp as a notification channel
Event API: routingKey may now be used to re-assign alerts during ALERT events
Alerts API: escalationPolicy attribute is now included in the response payload
Services of teams can now be managed in the teams admin UI
Our ServiceNow bidirectional integration now supports dynamic mapping of assignmentGroups and escalation policies (as well as re-assignment)
we have launched our Incident Communications 2.0 BETA, reach out to us to join during the testing phase
On-call schedules: we now allow you to create more complex recurring schedules with schedule layers.
New alert view: as part of our new Incident Comms 2.0 feature, a brand new revamp of our Alert Detail View has been launched, including live updates for Alerts and Alert related information.
as part of our Incident Com 2 Feature, Stakeholder users may now use the web login (they were previously limitted to the Mobile App only)
the GET /api/log-entries resource now supports ?include=vars and ?filter-types=ALERT_UPDATES parameters, as well as pagination for more advanced and detailed alert timeline access
Microsoft Teams Alert Actions have been rebuild to support a direct Teams query for enterprise customers with > 10k Teams.
the (Support) Live Chat has been made available to EU customers (see Account Settings
Oh Dear Inbound
Gitlab Inbound Integration
users may now choose their personal shift color that is rendered in schedules
Humio Inbound
Apifortress Inbound
Freshdesk Inbound
AppSignal Inbound
Lightstep Inbound
IBM Cloud Functions Inbound
Crowdstrike Inbound
critical alert push notifications are no longer triggered for update notification types
update type notifications are now fanned out to all registered push token devices
call routing numbers now support blacklists for incoming callers
assign to policy action no longer sends two notifications but one
added re-authorize option for Slack bot
updated all alert source and connector icons to newest version with increased resolution
the resolving user will no longer receive a resolve notification
we have released a new version of our API check here for more info
we have added a new API resource incident reports
new inbound integration IXON
new inbound integration Salesforce
new inbound integration Jumpcloud
new inbound integration StatusHub
new inbound integration AWS GuardDuty
rendering performance of timelines of schedules has been improved
added policy routingKeys to the event API
added a new uptime monitor type: SSL
added dynamic user-, priority- and policy mapping to our ServiceNow integration
updated Jira inbound integration to support alert creation on update events
added new fields for ServiceNow outbound alert creation
added response keywords check for HTTP uptime monitors
added option to delete user avatar
increased displayed team name sizes in action dropdowns and list views
My on-call shifts page
Avatar upload (in user contact details)
Microsoft Teams Chat (new bot)
Microsoft Teams Meeting (new bot)
updates for on-calls API
updates for schedule shifts API
Zendesk inbound integration now supports attaching comments to alerts
Zammad inbound integration now supports attaching comments to alerts
Zendesk inbound integration
Additional DingTalk Action that does not require a connector setup
Added team-context HTTP header to control team context on a per request basis when using api keys
Escalation policy detail view has been added
Attaching comments to alerts is now additionally possible through the events API
Improved team details in settings view
Preventing ongoing call routing sessions from intervention through accept and resolve actions through mobile
Email bounces are now made visible in the user contact information
Updated algorithm to improve search results in list views
The alert priority of Zammad, ServiceNOW and SearchGuard Inbound Integrations is now fully managed in the alert source
DingTalk Outbound Integration
Added option for account owners to disable report sharing
Added API keys, which may now be created by each user and provided during API calls instead of basic auth
Added option to logout of all mobile devices using the web UI
New: Zoom Chat Integration
New: Zoom Meeting Integration
New: Microsoft Teams Chat Integration
New: Microsoft Teams Meeting Integration
New: MXToolBox Integration
New: Azure Alert Sentinel Integration
On-calls REST API resource
New: Azure Alerts Integration for Azure Activity Logs
New: Azure Alerts Integration for Budget Alert
New: Azure Alerts Integration for Azure Logs
New: Azure Alerts Integration for Azure Metric
New: Azure Alerts Integration for Azure Sentinel
New: Azure Alerts Integration for Service Health
New: SignalFx Inbound Integration
New: Terraform Cloud / Terraform Enterprise Inbound Integration
New: Sentry Inbound Integration
New: Kubernetes Inbound Integration
Advanced support hours routing for call routing numbers
Auto provision teams and mobile numbers with SSO
New: Zammad Inbound and Outbound Integration
New: Mattermost Outbound Integration
New: Splunk Inbound Integration
New: Elastic Search Guard Inbound Integration
New: ServiceNow Inbound Integration
Updated PRTG integration: custom alert summary and details based on PRTG placeholders.
Call Routing Number User Interface rework
New on-call schedule styles for all schedule views
SAML2 SSO auto-provision now supports custom provision attributes
Irregular Schedules new calendar UI
Call Routing: You may now choose if an alert is resolved on agent/caller hang-up
Links and Images for Alerts with automatic connections
Adedd international caller IDs for voice alerts for USA and Canada, UK, Australia, Belgium and Netherlands
New Notification Reports
Connectors and Connections are now available via API
New Go Client with full API support
New Terraform Provider with full API support
New: Zapier Inbound and Outbound Integration
New: Jira Inbound Integration
New: Server Density Inbound Integration
New: Consul integration
Updated Email integration: email deduplication now also works for email threads
Updated Pingdom integration: alerts created by Pingdom now include a backlink to Pingdom
Added new Responder role
On-call duty notifications
Call routing: added mailbox transcription to alert details and made voicemail links easier accessible in the alert links section
Alert Actions
Support for outbound connections in Call Routing Numbers
Support Hours for Call Routing Numbers
Datadog Outbound Integration now supports regions
Prometheus alert detail formatting has been updated
Slack channels (connections) can now be managed in ilert directly
Ability to select alert events in outbound integrations. Example: trigger webhooks for alert creation and resolution events, but ignore remaining alert event types.
Every call routing number is now referenced to an alert source, helping you connect incoming calls to e.g. Slack. You can now also manage support hours for your call routing number.
Optimized bulk alert actions like accept and resolve
Uptime monitor TCP and UDP modes now support first packet and expected packet
Further improvements on our API to optimize response time and delivery for our mobile app
New API endpoint /numbers
Ability to re-route alerts to escalation policies and on-call schedules
Suggested responders: when re-routing an alert, ilert now suggests you the best responder based on historic data
Zabbix (updated): Starting Zabbix 4.4, ilert can be integrated as a media type into Zabbix. Zabbix 5.0.4+ includes ilert as a media type by default. See also Zabbix blog post: Working with multiple on-call teams using Zabbix and ilert
Prometheus (updated): improved readabiltiy of prometheus alerts
Alert source overview page now includes outbound connections
User profile: low priority notifications rules are entirely optional, i.e. a user can now chose to not receive any notification for low priority alerts
Email: added ability to resolve alerts via email
Stakeholder engagement: stakeholders can now unsubscribe from alert update notifications
Email login: Users can now login via email (in addition to username) . Usernames in ilert are deprecated and will be removed in the future.
Stakeholder engagement: keep stakeholders in the loop during critical alerts (blog post).
Serverless outbound integrations:
AWS Lambda
Google Cloud Functions
Microsoft Azure Functions
Icinga v2.x (updated): there is a dedicated plugin for Icinga now on our GitHub repo. You can now override the alert priority from within Icinga and we include the comments that you enter in Icinga when ack’ing a problem in the event log of the alert.
JIRA (updated): When you setup a connection from your alert source in ilert to your JIRA instance, projects and issue types are now dynamically fetched from your JIRA instance, so you can select the issue types when ilert syncs an alert to JIRA. You can even include custom fields.
Webhook (updated): you can now fully customize the payload for outbound webhooks.
API end point for uptime monitors
Uptime monitors: support for milliseconds in check timeout (blog post)
Flexible periods in repeating on-call schedules: set an arbitrary period length and chose between days and weeks as the period unit (blog post)
Single Sign On: Single sign on makes it easy to manage access to your ilert account using an identity provider of your choice.
Alert Reporting includes key metrics such MTTA and MTTR (blog post).
Auto raise alert priority lets you delay notifications and escalations until support hours start (blog post)
Alerts with linked incidents are now marked with a icon
