Hosted edition
Alerts and Logs
Live log viewer
Open an instance and go to its Logs tab to see log lines streamed in as they're written by ORDS, no manual refresh needed. You can:
- Filter by log level (error/warn/info/debug, where the log format supports it)
- Pause the live stream to read without new lines pushing content down
- Scroll back through recently buffered lines
Logs shown here are recent/live output. For longer-term log history, see Historical Data and Reports — note that log retention is opt-in and volume-limited by plan.
Alerts
ORDSwatch can notify you automatically when an instance's health changes — specifically when it goes down or degraded.
Webhook alerts
Configure a webhook URL under Alerts → Webhook. ORDSwatch sends an HTTP POST with a JSON payload describing the instance and its new status whenever a status change happens. This works well for Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or any custom endpoint that accepts incoming webhooks.
Email alerts
Configure a notification email under Alerts → Email. You'll receive an email for the same status-change events as the webhook.
Who can configure alerts
Operators and admins can set up and change alert destinations. Viewers can see that alerts are configured but can't edit them. See Users and Roles.
Tuning alert noise
If an instance is flapping (rapidly toggling between up and down), you'll get an alert on every transition. Consider whether the health check path or interval needs adjusting, or use tags to group noisy non-critical instances separately from ones you want paged for immediately.