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Webhook Integration examples for PingPlotter REST API alerts

(Skip steps 1-6 if you already have an account)
Click here to sign up for MS Teams
Sign up your account for work / organization
You'll get a message saying something like "Setting up Teams"
Download the Windows app or use your browser
(The following instructions are for the Windows app)
After installation, sign in to Microsoft Teams in the Windows app
Create your PingPlotter Alerts channel by clicking the "..." next to your team and clicking Add Channel
Give it a name!
In the bottom left of your screen, click on Apps → Incoming Webhooks → Add to team → Choose your channel
Click the "Set up a Connector" button and give it a name like PingPlotter Webhook → Create
Copy the URL and paste it into the REST Address of PingPlotter. Click Done
In PingPlotter, change the Method to POST and the Content (Data) Type to JSON
Change the Body to look something like this:

{"text":"Hello, World!"}
or,
{"text":"{{Host.HostName}} is experiencing high latency!"}

Open your Discord app or log in via your browser
Right-click your server avatar on the left pane and select Server Settings → Webhooks
Click Create Webhook. Give it a Name, assign it to a channel, upload an image (may I suggest the PingPlotter logo...?), copy the URL, and hit Save
In PingPlotter, click on a target and open the Alerts sidebar
Select Execute REST Call and give it some parameters
In the REST Address field, paste the URL you copied earlier in step 3
Change the Method to show POST and the Content (Data) Type to show JSON
Using these JSON Params, see these common examples to post PingPlotter data to your Discord channel via the Webhook (in the Body field):

{"content":"Hello, World!"}
or,
{"content":"{{Host.HostName}} is experiencing high latency!"}

Note: Clicking the "Test" button in PingPlotter will show a message saying "Success: Returned with HTTP status code 204: No Content". You can ignore this message, as it's to be expected from Discord.

Log in to Slack in your web browser
Navigate to https://api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1. Build a Slack app
After it's created, click Incoming Webhooks → Activate
Scroll down and click Add New Webhook to Workspace
Choose a Channel → Allow
Copy the Webhook URL and paste it into the REST Address in the PingPlotter app (click on a target → click the Alerts sidebar → select Execute REST Call → give it some parameters → REST Address)
Change the REST Method to POST and change the Content (Data) Type to JSON
Change the Body to look something like this:

{"text":"Hello, World!"}
or,
{"text":"{{Host.HostName}} is experiencing high latency!"}

Create a specific Twist thread
Click the "..." button and choose Add Integration
Build a Thread integration
Install the integration into your thread
Once installed, you'll see a status comment pop up in the thread that will look something like this: "Austin installed the Austin's webhook integration on this thread"
Click on the title of your webhook to redirect to the settings of that webhook for your thread
Copy the URL on the following page and append "hooks" to the beginning of the URL like this:

https://hooks.twist.com/api/v3/integration_incoming/post_data?install_id=XXXXX&install_token=XXXXX
Paste the entire URL into the REST Address of your PingPlotter alert
In PingPlotter, change the Method to POST and the Content (Data) Type to JSON
Change the Body to look something like this: