Sunday, May 06, 2007

Using Twitter as a backup alert system

I was just wondering today that it would be cool if I could have secure twitter channel for all my server alerts. Twitter doesn't seem to have a secure email interface and it would be hard to convince "powers that be" to allow production system messages to a public site, but if the channel was encrypted, then maybe.

But I find the idea intriguing. Along with system level alerts, one could also get numbers on system loads, cpu usage, runaway queries etc. The possibilities are endless.

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