Documentation forSolarWinds Incident Response

Airbrake

Airbrake is a monitoring tool used to easily monitor errors and performance insights for your entire app stack.

Route detailed alerts from Airbrake to the right users in Incident Response.

Using Airbrake as an Alert Source

  1. Navigate to Services -> Service Overview -> select or search for your Service. Expand the accordion -> In the Alert Sources section, click Add.

    2. Using airbrake as an alert source from the alert source section in Squadcast

  2. Select Airbrake. Copy the displayed Webhook URL to configure it within Airbrake. Finish by clicking Add Alert Source -> Done.

Configuration of airbrake alert source using webhook URL

When an alert source turns Active, it’ll show up under Configured Alert Sources. You can either generate a test alert from the integration or wait for a real-time alert to be generated by the Alert Source.

An Alert Source is active if there is a recorded incident via that Alert Source for the Service.

Create a Incident Response Webhook Integration in Airbrake

  1. Login to your Airbrake dashboard and select the Project of your choice

    2. Select project in Airbrake dashboard - Step 1

  2. Navigate to the Integrations tab. Under the Other integrations section, click on Webhook

    3. Select integration tab and click on webhook in Airbrake dashboard - step 2

  3. Paste the previously copied Incident Response Webhook URL in the placeholder for the URL. Check the Enabled checkbox and click on Save

Use webhook URL in placeholder and check the enabled checkbox in Airbrake Dashboard - Step 3

  • You can also click on Test Integration to test the alert. This will create a test incident in Incident Response.

That's it, you are good to go! Your Airbrake integration is now complete.

  • Whenever Airbrake fires an alert, an incident will be created in Incident Response for it.