What CoIsland watches in PagerDuty

Each monitor kind brings its own query and its own card in the notch.

How to watch PagerDuty from your Mac’s notch

Each monitor is a ring in the notch that counts down to its next check. When an incident comes in, the notch opens for a few seconds with its sound, and the card lists it as Checkout API #1234 · Triggered · High · you: what is burning, how bad, and who has it. An on-call monitor reads On call until Fri 09:00.

A click opens the alert in CoIsland, where the incident fills in live: its alert’s details, its timeline of notes and log entries, and Open in PagerDuty. Connect PagerDuty covers every field and kind; all connectors share one page.

Connect it in three steps

  1. Create an API User Token under your PagerDuty avatar › My Profile › User Settings.

  2. Add a PagerDuty connector with it. Test connector finds your account and its region.

  3. Pick a monitor kind or an example, pick services or teams by name, and choose when it alerts.

Built for PagerDuty

  • Your own user token, no admin and no app to register.
  • Read only: it never acknowledges, resolves or reassigns.
  • US and EU accounts, found without a setting.
  • The token stays in the macOS Keychain and goes only to PagerDuty's API.

Then hand it to an agent

A click on the alert opens the agent in a terminal under it, with the whole alert as its first message.

PagerDuty questions

Does CoIsland need a PagerDuty admin?

No. It uses an API User Token you create under your own profile, which acts with your permissions.

Can CoIsland acknowledge a PagerDuty incident?

Not yet. It only reads. The alert's Open in PagerDuty goes to the incident, where you acknowledge or resolve it.

Will it alert me about every incident already open?

No. The first check learns what is already there and stays quiet; after that, only what is new alerts. A count rule is about now, so it alerts at once if it already holds.

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