How to Set Up PagerDuty Alerts from Linux Server

PagerDuty is the industry standard for on-call incident management. This guide integrates your Linux server monitoring with PagerDuty.

Send Alert via API

curl -H "Content-type: application/json"   -X POST   --data '{"routing_key":"YOUR_KEY","event_action":"trigger","payload":{"summary":"High CPU on server","severity":"critical","source":"hostname"}}'   https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue

Custom Alert Script

#!/bin/bash
DISK=$(df / | awk 'NR==2 {print $5}' | tr -d '%')
if [ $DISK -gt 90 ]; then
    curl -s -X POST https://events.pagerduty.com/v2/enqueue       -H "Content-type: application/json"       -d "{"routing_key":"KEY","event_action":"trigger","payload":{"summary":"Disk ${DISK}% on $(hostname)","severity":"critical","source":"$(hostname)"}}"
fi

Conclusion

PagerDuty ensures the right engineer is alerted. Our team integrates monitoring and alerting systems for 24/7 incident management.