Pocket Alert
Pocket Alert is a free push notification API and app that centralizes alerts from monitoring, deploys, and other services into one channel. · Pocket Alert · Observability
Overview
Pocket Alert offers a free-forever push notification channel (50/day, 1 device, 1 app) for centralizing alerts from monitoring, deploys, and custom services.
Good fit
Use Pocket Alert when you want a single, focused push-notification channel from your own scripts, monitors, or services.
- personal ops alerts
- side projects
- solo developers
Not a fit
Avoid if you need more than 50 notifications/day, multiple devices, or multiple applications for free.
- high notification volume
- team-wide alerting
- multiple devices or applications
Quickstart · 5 steps
- Sign up for a free Pocket Alert account.
- Install the iOS or Android app.
- Get your API token.
- Send a push notification via API or webhook.
- Configure priority levels and channels as needed.
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