Alert Routing

Varen lets you route alerts differently for each API you monitor.

Per-API channels

For each API, you can independently enable or disable:

• Email — available on all plans
• Slack — requires Pro plan and a webhook URL in Settings
• Telegram — requires Pro plan and a connected bot in Settings
• Webhook destinations — send alerts to any HTTP endpoint (Discord, CI/CD, custom systems)

For example:

• Stripe → Email + Slack + Telegram (critical dependency, team needs to know)
• OpenAI → Email only (one developer handles it)
• Internal API → Webhook only (pipe to your CI system)

Custom alert email

By default, alerts are sent to your account email. You can override this per API:

1. Go to Dashboard → click on the API → Settings
2. Under Alert Routing, change the Alert email field
3. Click Save

This is useful for:

• Routing alerts for a specific API to a team inbox (e.g., [email protected])
• Sending alerts to a PagerDuty or Opsgenie email integration
• Separating personal and work API alerts

Webhook destinations

You can add webhook destinations in Settings → Webhook Destinations and then enable them per API in the alert routing form. See Webhooks for setup instructions.

Disabling alerts

If you uncheck all channels for an API, you won't receive any alerts for it. The API will still be monitored and changes will appear in the dashboard — you just won't be notified.