Ensure critical website downtime alerts wake users

The ask

Users managing critical online services require immediate notification of website outages. Standard phone alerts, including vibrations, often do not penetrate silent or sleep modes. This delay can lead to significant business impact. A robust monitoring system needs a method to deliver urgent alerts. These alerts must be capable of overriding phone settings to ensure they are heard and acted upon. This capability is vital for rapid incident response. It ensures that service managers are alerted even when away from their primary workstations.

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