Send SMS alerts with webhooks and Twilio

This post explains how to use Datadog's webhooks integration to automatically send an SMS message via Twilio when an alert is triggered in your application or environment. The process involves creating a webhook that calls the Twilio SMS API, using a Synthetic test to call the webhook if an API endpoint is unavailable, and adding dynamic data to the webhook's payload and linking it to the Datadog mobile app. This integration can help you quickly alert your team of issues affecting service reliability or user experience, allowing for faster troubleshooting and minimizing potential downtime.