How can I replace email alerts for system events with something more scalable?

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Published on 2012-10-08T10:05:31Z Indexed on 2012/10/09 3:39 UTC
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I have a number of systems and services that send email alerts when some sort of event takes place. This works fine for a small number of systems but as the number of alerts grows the important message become less visible among the informational notices. Email filtering can only be effective to a point.

What sort of solution can I use in place of emails that will allow me to send arbitrary alerts from various services and that will scale easily as the number of services grows?

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