Squadcast + Hund Integration: A Simplified Approach for effective Alert Routing
Tags: bestpractices, incidentmanagement, integrations
Published: 2024-05-16 09:33:33

[Hund](https://hund.io/) is a versatile Service Monitoring & Communication tool. It helps monitor services and keeps your audience informed about any status changes automatically through a status page.

If you use **Hund** for monitoring and management requirements, you can integrate it with **Squadcast**, an end-to-end incident response tool, to route detailed alerts from **Hund** to the right users in Squadcast.

## Using Hund as an Alert Source
**Step1:** Navigate to **Services** then to **Service Overview**. Next select or search for your Service. Expand the accordion and in the **Alert Sources** section, click **Add**.

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**Step2:** Select **Hund**. Copy the displayed **Webhook URL** to configure it within **Hund**. Finish by clicking **Add Alert Source** -> **Done**.

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**Important:**

When an alert source turns Active, it’ll show up under Configured Alert Sources, you can either generate a test alert from the integration or wait for a real-time alert to be generated by the Alert Source. An Alert Source is active if there is a recorded incident via that Alert Source for the Service.

[![3](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/gwlyeoydxqk7ehomcs08.png)](https://register.squadcast.com/)

## Create a Squadcast Webhook Alert in Hund
**Step1:** Login to your **Hund dashboard**. Under the **Subscriptions** tab, select **Outgoing webhooks** and click on **+ New Subscription**.

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**Step2:** Select **Webhook** as **Subscription Method** and paste the previously copied Squadcast Webhook URL in the **Receiving URL** placeholder. Select **POST** as **HTTP Method** and click on **Subscribe**

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**Step3:** Under the **Notifiers** tab, click on **Configure** for **Webhook**. Toggle the **Include Group Context** switch **On**.

**‍Step4:** Under **Default Notification Preferences**, select **Normal** as **Notification Level** and select your **Notification Preferences accordingly**. Then click on **Update Notifier**.

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That's it, you are good to go! Your Hund integration is now complete. Whenever Hund fires an alert, an incident will be created in Squadcast for it. Also, when the issue is **resolved** in Hund, the corresponding incident gets **auto-resolved** in Squadcast.

Hund is a popular monitoring and communication tool that helps you keep track of important metrics and timely communicate those to the concerned responders. Integrating Hund with Squadcast can help your organization in routing detailed alerts and enhance your incident management process.


_[Squadcast](https://www.squadcast.com/) is an Incident Management tool that’s purpose-built for SRE. Get rid of unwanted alerts, receive relevant notifications and integrate with popular ChatOps tools. Work in collaboration using virtual incident war rooms and use automation to eliminate toil._
[![8](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/28pp9u4v72zxu15ktc51.png)](https://register.squadcast.com/)