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Last updated: 23 Jan 2024

travel-advice-publisher: Error Monitoring for Travel Advice Alerts

• Confirming email delivery
  • a job runs every 15 mins in email-alert-api
  • if it's an hour since a travel advice alert was created and no emails have been delivered for that alert, the 2nd line/on call team are paged.
  • More details: https://github.com/alphagov/email-alert-api/blob/main/docs/alert_check_scheduled_jobs.md
• Application error monitoring in Sentry
• A healthcheck in email-alert-api
  • We use GOV.UK Notify to deliver emails
  • email-alert-api is the app which communicates with GOV.UK Notify
  • We have a healthcheck set up to ensure that email-alert-api can connect to GOV.UK Notify
  • If the healthcheck fails, an urgent alert is shown in Icinga