Escalation Chains for bank holidays vs standard weeks
Hi LogicMonitor community, We are fairly new to the product, just looking to see if anyone had any advice for handling Escalation Chains when it comes to Bank Holiday weekends. We currently have escalation chains created for our teams to handle automated call-outs for our critical devices/checks during standard weekends and outside of core hours. However with Bank Holiday weekends requiring the need to operate the same process on Friday/Monday's depending on the specific weekend, we'd need to ensure those additional days does are covered too. The obvious solution we've come up with is to create a Bank Holiday On-call escalation chain for each of the teams where we can be flexible and amend the days we'd want to be called out on, then swap out that escalation chain to any alert rules which required it. This would work, although considering we've got multiple teams configured with on-call escalation chains within LogicMonitor as well as many alert rules using them, this is a manual process we'd need to keep on top of before/after every bank holiday, which leaves some room for human error of course. Has anyone implemented something similar and have any advice they would be willing to share? I can't imagine we would be the first customers to come across this scenario. Thanks in advance!67Views3likes4CommentsTime-based escalation chains with 8-5 M-F and the inverse?
I’m trying to set up an escalation chain for a group where it does one behavior from 8-5 Monday through Friday, but also in the same escalation chain, we want anything OUTSIDE that time to follow anotther behavior. Unfortunately, I see 3 problems. It looks like I’m going to have to make 4 different subchains. a) weekends, b) midnight to 8 am, c) 8 am to 5 pm, and d) 5pm to midnight It looks like LM wont let me select 24:00 to make sure the gap is closed, so I’m worried about alerts that happen between 23:45 and 24:00 (00:00 next day) It also bugs me that technically the way I’m doing it below, I have 2 subchains that apply to the 8:00 minute and the 17:00 minute (5 pm) as each of those moments are included in subchains that overlap on that one minute Does anyone have a better solution to this? What do I do about #2 above in particular? Thanks!Solved77Views9likes1CommentEscalation Chain text ACK notification, send to all users in alert stage
Some teams operate primarily through text and as such their escalation chains are set that way. The utility of an ACK notification to all members of the escalation chain stage gets lost when it is sent by a method, email, not even used in the escalation chain. This notification should use the same delivery method used in that stage to send the original alert. (https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/alerts/responding-to-alerts/responding-to-native-sms-alert-notifications/ see description in table for ACK). This has been tested and email is the only method that will notify users, request is to have functionality put in place to send all users in alerting escalation chain the ACK notification instead of through email only. Thanks3Views0likes0CommentsAdd Escalation Chain UI
The Add a new chain > Add new recipients dialog seems to suggest that only users can be added, but in fact allows groups also. Please enhance the UI captions to make clear if one or both is possible. It's confusing to my users and generates unnecessary tickets.8Views0likes0Comments