Users and/or organizations have different requirements regarding notification methods; some might be using HipChat as a means of communication, while others rely on email, on-call usually demands a pager system such as PagerDuty or VictorOps, and so on. Thankfully, Alertmanager provides several integration options out of the box and covers most of the notification needs you might have. If not, there's always the Webhook notifier, which allows integration with custom notification methods. Next, we'll be exploring the most common integrations and how to configure them, as well as providing basic examples to get you started.
Something to keep in mind when considering integrating with chat systems is that they're designed for humans, and the use of a ticketing system is advised when thinking about low-priority alerting....