Discord Webhook Integration — Get Outage Alerts in Your Server?

This post explains Discord Webhook Integration — Get Outage Alerts in Your Server with clear steps and practical examples. Use the guidance to apply the recommendations in your own API workflows.

Where can I monitor API status in real-time?

API Status Check (apistatuscheck.com) provides real-time monitoring for 100+ APIs with uptime tracking and alerts. You can view dashboards, subscribe to feeds, and set up notifications in minutes.

TLDR: Set up real-time API outage alerts in Discord in 2 minutes. Create a webhook in Server Settings → Integrations, copy the URL, and configure it at API Status Check to get instant notifications when OpenAI, Stripe, AWS, or any other API goes down.

Discord Webhook Integration

Get real-time API outage alerts directly in your Discord server.

Quick Setup (2 minutes)

Step 1: Create a Discord Webhook

Open your Discord server
Go to Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks
Click New Webhook
Name it "API Status Check" (or whatever you prefer)
Select the channel for alerts
Copy the webhook URL

Step 2: Register Your Webhook

curl -X POST https://apistatuscheck.com/api/webhook/discord \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "webhookUrl": "YOUR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL",
    "apis": ["openai", "stripe", "github"]
  }'

Or monitor all APIs:

curl -X POST https://apistatuscheck.com/api/webhook/discord \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "webhookUrl": "YOUR_DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL",
    "apis": ["*"]
  }'

Step 3: Done!

You'll receive a test message in your Discord channel. From now on, you'll get alerts like:

🚨 OpenAI is DOWN Check status: apistatuscheck.com/api/openai

Available APIs

You can monitor any of our 70+ APIs:

AI: openai, anthropic, midjourney, huggingface, perplexity

Cloud: aws, azure, gcp, vercel, netlify, cloudflare

Payments: stripe, paypal, plaid, square

Communication: discord, slack, twilio, sendgrid

Developer Tools: github, supabase, firebase, planetscale

View all APIs →

Alert Types

Alert	Color	Example
🚨 Outage	Red	"OpenAI is DOWN"
⚠️ Degraded	Orange	"OpenAI is experiencing issues"
✅ Recovered	Green	"OpenAI is back online"

Example Integration

Here's how it looks in Discord:

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 🚨 OpenAI is DOWN                   │
│                                     │
│ Check status:                       │
│ apistatuscheck.com/api/openai       │
│                                     │
│ apistatuscheck.com • Today at 3:42 PM│
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

Self-Hosted Option

If you want to run your own alert dispatcher:

// Node.js example
const WEBHOOK_URL = 'your-discord-webhook-url';

async function sendAlert(apiName, status) {
  const colors = {
    outage: 0xef4444,
    degraded: 0xf97316,
    recovered: 0x22c55e,
  };

  await fetch(WEBHOOK_URL, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      embeds: [{
        title: `${status === 'outage' ? '🚨' : '✅'} ${apiName}`,
        color: colors[status],
        timestamp: new Date().toISOString()
      }]
    })
  });
}

Need Help?

Questions? Open an issue on GitHub.