Pushover

Push alerts to your phone, without SMS costs.

Pushover delivers an alert to your phone and desktop as a push notification. For teams who want something louder than a chat channel but do not need the per-message cost of SMS, it sits neatly in between.

Phone and desktop. The same alert reaches both, so it finds you whether you are at a machine or away from one.
No per-message charge. Unlike SMS there is no cost per alert, which makes it practical for more than just your most critical monitors.
Encrypted at rest. The credentials you enter are encrypted at rest.

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01 · Where it fits

Between a channel and a text.

Most escalations have a gap between "posted in a channel nobody is reading" and "woke someone with a text". This fills it.

Louder than chat

A push notification surfaces on a locked phone, which a message in a busy channel does not.

Cheaper than SMS

With no per-message cost, you can afford to use it on monitors that would not justify a text.

Good for solo operators

If you are the whole on-call rota, this is often all the escalation you actually need.

Still needs data

Push notifications depend on a data connection. For the genuinely critical path, SMS or a phone call is more reliable.

Behind a Wait

Put it after a short wait so brief outages resolve themselves before your phone buzzes.

Once per incident

The default. The step fires once and resets on recovery rather than repeating throughout.

Questions

Common questions

How do I connect Pushover to Hesklo?

Take the credentials from your Pushover account, then add a Pushover connection in the monitor editor sidebar and enter them. Use Send test to confirm the notification arrives before you rely on it.

Is Pushover a good replacement for SMS?

For many teams, yes, since it reaches a phone with no per-message cost. The tradeoff is that push notifications need a data connection, so for the most critical alerts SMS or a phone call remains more reliable.

Does it reach my desktop as well as my phone?

Pushover delivers to both phone and desktop, so the alert finds you whether or not you are at a machine.

Will it notify repeatedly during a long outage?

Not by default. Notify steps fire once per incident and reset on recovery. If you want repeated alerts until someone acts, put a Repeat alert block before the notify step.