Get phone and SMS alerts fromRollbar
Rollbar tracks errors in your web and mobile apps in real time, flagging new issues, spikes in existing ones, and errors that appear right after a deploy. Spike.sh turns Rollbar alerts into incidents — routed to the on-call engineer by phone, SMS, Slack, and email, with escalations if nobody responds.
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I use Rollbar for monitoring and Spike.sh for on-call and incident management. Walk me through connecting them: create a Rollbar integration in Spike.sh, copy its webhook URL, and add that webhook to Rollbar alert settings. Then help me send a test alert to confirm incidents show up in Spike.sh.
What is Rollbar?
Rollbar is a real-time error tracking and monitoring tool for web and mobile applications. It groups exceptions into items, tells you when a brand-new error appears or an existing one starts firing more often, and ties errors back to the deploy that introduced them — so a bad release surfaces as a fresh spike rather than getting lost in the noise. Teams use it to triage, prioritize, and fix what’s actually breaking in production.
A Rollbar notification on its own is an email or a chat message that can slip past an on-call engineer at the wrong hour. Connected to Spike.sh, a Rollbar alert becomes an incident: the on-call engineer gets a phone call and SMS within seconds, the alert escalates to the next responder if it goes unacknowledged, and repeated reports are grouped and muted while an incident is already active so one error can’t page the rotation twice. Alert rules let you set severity and trigger automated actions, and your escalation policy decides who is reached and when.
How to set up Rollbar alerts
Every Spike.sh integration is a unique webhook URL. Paste it into Rollbar and alerts start flowing — no agents, no code.
Step 1: Create a Rollbar integration in Spike.sh
In your Spike.sh dashboard, open Integrations and add Rollbar. Spike.sh generates a unique webhook URL for this integration — copy it.
Step 2: Open Notifications in Rollbar
In your Rollbar project, go to Settings → Notifications and choose Webhook as the notification channel.
Step 3: Add the webhook and pick your rules
Paste the Spike.sh webhook URL into the Rollbar webhook configuration. Reuse the same URL across rules or create separate webhooks for different rules — for example new items, high-severity errors, or post-deploy errors.
Step 4: Test the connection
Trigger a matching error in Rollbar and confirm the incident appears in Spike.sh within seconds. You can set severity and automated actions with alert rules; note this integration does not auto-resolve, so incidents are closed by a responder.
That's it — Rollbar alerts now page whoever is on call.
