I think the GP is referring to web hooks[1]. When an alert gets triggered, rather than sending out an email/sms/smoke-signal you'd do an HTTP POST to a URL. The

I think the GP is referring to web hooks[1]. When an alert gets triggered, rather than sending out an email/sms/smoke-signal you'd do an HTTP POST to a URL. The receiver of the HTTP POST could then add there own custom alerting or hook it into an existing process. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hook