Send groundcover Alerts to Email via Zapier

This guide shows how to route groundcover alerts to email using Zapier. Since groundcover supports webhook-based alerting, and Zapier can receive webhooks and send emails, you can easily set up this workflow without writing code.

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Prerequisites

• A groundcover account with access to the Workflows tab.

• A Zapier account (free plan is sufficient).

• An email address where you want to receive alerts.

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Step 1: Create a Webhook Integration in groundcover

1. Go to Settings → Integrations.

2. Click Create Integration.

3. Choose Webhook as the type.

4. Enter a name like zapier_email_integration.

5. Paste your Zapier Catch Hook URL (you’ll get this in Step 2 below).

6. Save the integration.

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Step 2: Create a Zapier Webhook-to-Email Workflow

Create a Webhook Trigger

1. Go to Zapier.
2. Click "Create Zap".

3. Set Trigger:

   • App: Webhooks by Zapier

   • Event: Catch Hook

4. Copy the Webhook URL (e.g. https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/catch/...) – you'll use this in groundcover.

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Configure the Email Step

1. Set Action:

   • App: Email by Zapier

   • Event: Send Outbound Email

2. Configure the email:

   • To: your email address

   • Subject:

     🚨 New groundcover Alert 🚨

   • Body:

     🔔 Alert Title: {{alert_name}}
     💼 Severity: {{severity}}
     
     🔗 Links:
     - 🧹 Issue: {{issue_url}}
     - 📈 Monitor: {{monitor_url}}
     - 🔕 Silence: {{silence_url}}

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Step 3: Create a Workflow in groundcover

1. Go to the Workflows section in your groundcover.

2. Create a Notification Workflow with the integration we created in step 1.

3. Edit the worflow YAML and use the following structure:

workflow:
  id: emails
  description: Sends alerts to Zapier webhook (for email)
  triggers:
  - type: alert
    name: emails
  consts:
    severity: keep.dictget( {{ alert.annotations }}, "_gc_severity", "info")
    title: keep.dictget( {{ alert.annotations }}, "_gc_issue_header", "{{ alert.alertname }}")
    issue_url: https://app.groundcover.com/monitors/issues?backendId={{ alert.labels.backend_id }}&selectedObjectId={{ alert.fingerprint }}
    monitor_url: https://app.groundcover.com/monitors?backendId={{ alert.labels.backend_id }}&selectedObjectId={{ alert.labels._gc_monitor_id }}
    silence_url: https://app.groundcover.com/monitors/create-silence?keep.replace(keep.join({{ consts.redacted_labels }}, "&", "matcher_"), " ", "+")
    redacted_labels: keep.dict_pop({{ alert.labels }}, "_gc_monitor_id", "_gc_monitor_name", "_gc_severity", "backend_id", "grafana_folder", "_gc_issue_header")
  actions:
  - name: <<THE_NAME_OF_YOUR_WORFLOW>>
    provider:
      config: "{{ providers.<<THE_NAME_OF_YOUR_INTEGRATION>> }}"
      type: webhook
      with:
        body:
          alert_name: "{{ consts.title }}"
          severity: "{{ consts.severity }}"
          issue_url: "{{ consts.issue_url }}"
          monitor_url: "{{ consts.monitor_url }}"
          silence_url: "{{ consts.silence_url }}"

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Step 4: Test the Flow

1. Trigger a test alert in groundcover.

2. Check Zapier to ensure the webhook was received.

3. Confirm the email arrives with the right content.