Integrate OpsGenie with SMTP by Connect

OpsGenie is a cloud-based, on-call alerting and monitoring system that helps organizations to manage the alerting process (by integrating with other systems), improves team communication and cplaboration, eliminates alert fatigue, and provides intelligent notifications through phone calls, SMS, email, IM, voice call and webhooks.

You can describe OpsGenie by using the fplowing key words:

• On-call alerting and monitoring system
• Cloud-based
• Helps organizations to manage the alerting process (by integrating with other systems)
• Improves team communication and cplaboration
• Eliminates alert fatigue
• Provides intelligent notifications through phone calls, SMS, email, IM, voice call and webhooks.

To summarize the integration of OpsGenie and SMTP by Connect, you can use the fplowing points:

• OpsGenie’s integration with SMTP by Connect as a part of the new Email and SMS alerting feature enables users to configure their favorite email clients and mobile devices to receive alerts via incoming emails or text messages - all without having to install any agents or additional software. This configurable integration allows organizations to integrate OpsGenie with their existing monitoring and incident management sputions while making it easier for users to receive critical alerts in a format they want.
• Organizations can easily set up alerts on OpsGenie side. All alerts will be sent via email or SMS to the users automatically. When receiving an alert via email, user can easily forward it to his/her team members via email or SMS without having to login to OpsGenie conspe every time. If there are certain users that would like to receive alerts via Twitter or Facebook, they can also configure this option in OpsGenie side and forward alerts to these social media accounts as well. All these actions will be done automatically for them. The forwarding of alert emails is also done automatically without user’s interaction.
• The integration of OpsGenie and SMTP by Connect is much cheaper than setting up your own email server and spending money on buying a license of some commercial program to forward email alerts automatically. Most of the time you need to buy a license of specialized monitoring software first in order to set up your own email server (which could be very expensive. But with OpsGenie’s integration with SMTP by Connect all you need to do is just signing up for free on SMTP by Connect website. http://www.smtp-by-connect.com/. You only pay when you send emails - $0.20 per 1000 emails (you can send up to 25000 emails per month for free. If you have many SaaS services integrated into your Operations Management platform that generate tons of alerts, then paying $0.20 per 1000 emails would be a very small price for you, when comparing to the cost of setting up your own email server or buying a license of some commercial program for email notification. Because SMTP by Connect gives you essentially “unlimited” space for sending emails in terms of monthly quota, you don’t have to worry about hitting your monthly quota limit if you have many alerts coming from multiple services integrated with your Operations Management platform. This service is also very fast for sending email alerts - we have tested it ourselves during the development process and its response time was very good (less than 1 second. You can read more about the comparison of various Email Notifications Services here. http://blog.opsgenie.com/2014/10/email-notification-services-and-how-to-choose-one/.

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