Integrations

Email Alerts

Email is the default alert channel — no setup required. Every DeadPing account gets down and recovery alerts sent to the email address on file.

Default Email Alerts

Email alerts are enabled automatically for every account. When a monitor misses its expected ping (plus grace period), DeadPing sends an alert to your account email address. When the monitor recovers, a second email confirms it.

No credentials, webhooks, or third-party accounts needed. It works out of the box on all plans including Free.

Custom Alert Email

Each monitor can be configured with a custom alert_email address. When set, alerts for that monitor go to the custom address instead of your account email. This is useful for routing alerts to a team inbox, an on-call alias, or a different person per project.

  1. Open the monitor in your dashboard and click Edit
  2. Enter an address in the Alert Email field
  3. Click Save

Leave the field blank to fall back to your account email. The custom address only overrides email delivery — all other alert channels (Slack, PagerDuty, etc.) are unaffected.

What Gets Sent

DeadPing sends three types of email alerts: down alerts when a monitor misses a ping, recovery alerts when it comes back, and anomaly alerts when a duration spike or frequency deviation is detected.

Down alert
Subject: [DeadPing] ALERT: nightly-backup is DOWN

Monitor: nightly-backup
Status: DOWN
Expected: every 60 minutes
Last ping: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:00:12 UTC
Grace period: 300s elapsed

View monitor: https://deadping.io/dashboard/abc123
Recovery alert
Subject: [DeadPing] RECOVERED: nightly-backup is back up

Monitor: nightly-backup
Status: RECOVERED
Down for: ~14 minutes

View monitor: https://deadping.io/dashboard/abc123
Anomaly alert (Pro+)
Subject: [DeadPing] ANOMALY: billing-sync duration spike

Monitor: billing-sync
Type: Duration spike
Actual: 12,340ms
Baseline: 3,100ms
Deviation: 4.2x

View monitor: https://deadping.io/dashboard/def456

Note: Anomaly alerts require the Pro plan or above. Down and recovery alerts are available on all plans.

Configure

Manage your account email and per-monitor alert addresses in Settings. Account email is set under your profile; per-monitor alert email is in each monitor's edit form.