OpsGenie integration migration: Move Datadog, Prometheus, AWS, and Grafana alerts to Hyperping

The hardest part of leaving OpsGenie is not recreating schedules or escalation policies. It is migrating the integrations. Most teams have years of webhook configurations, routing rules, and custom payloads wired into OpsGenie from Datadog, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, and dozens of custom tools. This guide walks through each major integration, what to migrate, what to reroute, and what you can drop entirely.

Key Takeaways

• Many OpsGenie integrations become unnecessary when you move monitoring to Hyperping, because Hyperping replaces the detection layer.
• Datadog HTTP monitors, AWS Route53 health checks, and basic Prometheus endpoint alerts can all be replaced by Hyperping's built-in checks.
• Integrations you still need (APM, custom metrics, log-based alerts) can route to Hyperping via webhook in minutes.
• A structured audit saves weeks of work. Start by classifying integrations into "replace," "reroute," or "keep."
• Most teams complete the full migration in 1-3 weeks plus a 2-4 week parallel run.

Why integration migration is the hardest part

When teams evaluate OpsGenie alternatives, they focus on features: on-call scheduling, escalation policies, notification channels. These are relatively straightforward to recreate on a new platform.

Integrations are a different story.

Over the years, your team has built a web of connections between monitoring tools and OpsGenie. Datadog sends alerts through a webhook. Prometheus Alertmanager routes to an OpsGenie API endpoint. AWS CloudWatch pushes through SNS topics. Grafana fires notifications through a contact point. And then there are the custom integrations, internal tools posting to OpsGenie's API, scripts that nobody remembers writing.

The problem is that nobody has a complete list. Integrations get added over time by different team members. Some were set up by people who have since left the company. Documentation is sparse or nonexistent.

I've seen teams start their migration confident they have five or six integrations, only to discover twenty or more once they actually audit their OpsGenie account. That gap between perceived and actual integration count is where migrations stall.

The monitoring-first approach (why it is easier than you think)

Most migration guides tell you to reroute every OpsGenie integration to your new tool. That is the wrong approach.

The better question is: which integrations do you actually need to keep?

If you move your monitoring to Hyperping, a large portion of your OpsGenie integrations become unnecessary. You do not need a Datadog-to-OpsGenie webhook if Hyperping monitors the endpoint directly. You do not need a CloudWatch alarm routing through SNS to OpsGenie if Hyperping checks the same health endpoint.

This is the key difference between Hyperping's approach and other OpsGenie alternatives. Instead of just replacing the alert routing layer, you can replace OpsGenie and your monitoring tool at the same time.

Which integrations become unnecessary vs. which you keep

Integration type	Can Hyperping replace it?	Action
HTTP/HTTPS uptime checks	Yes, built-in	Remove from source tool
SSL certificate monitoring	Yes, built-in	Remove from source tool
Synthetic browser checks	Yes, built-in	Remove from source tool
Cron job / heartbeat monitoring	Yes, built-in	Remove from source tool
DNS monitoring	Yes, built-in	Remove from source tool
APM / distributed tracing	No	Reroute webhook to Hyperping
Custom application metrics	No	Reroute webhook to Hyperping
Log-based alerts	No	Reroute webhook to Hyperping
Infrastructure metrics (CPU, memory)	No	Reroute webhook to Hyperping
Database monitoring	No	Reroute webhook to Hyperping
CI/CD pipeline alerts	No	Reroute webhook to Hyperping

For many teams, the "remove" column covers 40-60% of their OpsGenie integrations. That is a significant reduction in migration work.

Datadog + OpsGenie to Hyperping

Datadog is one of the most common OpsGenie integrations. Teams typically connect Datadog to OpsGenie to route monitoring alerts into on-call schedules. But Datadog does a lot of different things, and not all of them need to flow through an incident management tool.

What Hyperping replaces

If you are using Datadog primarily for uptime monitoring, HTTP health checks, or SSL monitoring, Hyperping replaces that functionality directly. You configure the checks in Hyperping, and alerts route through Hyperping's built-in on-call system. No middleman needed.

Datadog monitors that map to Hyperping:

• HTTP checks (status codes, response times, content validation)
• SSL certificate expiry monitoring
• Synthetic tests for critical user flows
• DNS record monitoring

What still needs Datadog

Datadog's strength is in application-level observability. If you rely on Datadog for APM, distributed tracing, custom metrics, or log management, you still need Datadog. The difference is that those alerts now route to Hyperping instead of OpsGenie.

Datadog monitors that stay in Datadog:

• APM service monitors (latency, error rates, throughput)
• Custom metric monitors
• Log-based alerts and anomaly detection
• Infrastructure host monitors (CPU, memory, disk)
• Network performance monitors

Rerouting remaining Datadog alerts to Hyperping

For the Datadog monitors you keep, you need to update the notification channel. In Datadog, this means changing the webhook destination from OpsGenie's endpoint to Hyperping's incoming webhook URL.

The process is straightforward: go to your Datadog integrations page, locate the OpsGenie integration, and add a new webhook integration pointing to Hyperping. Then update your monitor notification settings to use the Hyperping webhook instead of the OpsGenie @opsgenie mention.

You do not need to change the monitor logic, thresholds, or evaluation windows. Only the notification destination changes.

Prometheus + OpsGenie to Hyperping

Prometheus users typically connect to OpsGenie through Alertmanager. The alert pipeline looks like this: Prometheus evaluates rules, fires alerts to Alertmanager, and Alertmanager routes them to OpsGenie via the OpsGenie receiver configuration.

What Hyperping replaces

If your Prometheus alerts include basic HTTP endpoint checks, blackbox exporter probes, or SSL certificate monitoring, Hyperping replaces all of that. You remove those alert rules from Prometheus entirely and let Hyperping handle the detection and notification in one place.

Prometheus alerts that map to Hyperping:

• Blackbox exporter HTTP probes
• Blackbox exporter SSL checks
• Blackbox exporter DNS probes
• Custom endpoint health checks using the probe module

What stays in Prometheus

Prometheus is the right tool for infrastructure and application metrics. Keep your resource utilization alerts, container health checks, and application-specific metric alerts in Prometheus. Just reroute them.

Prometheus alerts that stay:

• Node exporter alerts (CPU, memory, disk, network)
• Container and pod health alerts
• Application-specific metric alerts (request rates, error ratios)
• Queue depth and processing lag alerts

Reconfiguring Alertmanager

Updating Alertmanager is a configuration change. In your alertmanager.yml file, you replace the OpsGenie receiver with a webhook receiver pointing to Hyperping's endpoint. The receiver type changes from opsgenie_configs to webhook_configs, and the target URL changes to your Hyperping webhook URL.

Your routing tree, grouping rules, and inhibition rules can stay the same. Only the receiver definition changes. If you have multiple receivers for different severity levels, update each one that currently points to OpsGenie.

For a detailed walkthrough of the broader migration process, see our migration checklist.

AWS CloudWatch + OpsGenie to Hyperping

AWS teams connect CloudWatch to OpsGenie through SNS (Simple Notification Service) topics. CloudWatch alarms trigger SNS notifications, and an SNS subscription forwards them to OpsGenie's API endpoint.

What Hyperping replaces

Several CloudWatch alarm types exist purely to monitor external-facing endpoints. Hyperping replaces these directly, often with better coverage since Hyperping checks from multiple global locations rather than a single AWS region.

CloudWatch alarms that map to Hyperping:

• Route53 health checks (HTTP, HTTPS, TCP)
• ELB/ALB health check alarms (target response monitoring)
• API Gateway latency and 5xx alarms (for availability monitoring)
• CloudFront error rate alarms (for endpoint availability)

What stays in CloudWatch

AWS-specific infrastructure metrics belong in CloudWatch. Anything tied to internal AWS resource performance should stay where it is.

CloudWatch alarms that stay:

• EC2 instance metrics (CPU, network, status checks)
• RDS database metrics (connections, replication lag, storage)
• Lambda function errors and duration
• SQS queue depth and age of oldest message
• ECS/EKS container health

Reconfiguring SNS topics

For the CloudWatch alarms you keep, update the SNS subscription endpoint. Remove the OpsGenie HTTPS subscription and add a new one pointing to Hyperping's webhook URL.

If you have a dedicated SNS topic for OpsGenie alerts, you can either update the subscription on that topic or create a new topic for Hyperping and update the CloudWatch alarms to publish to the new topic. The first approach is faster. The second is cleaner if you want to maintain a clear separation.

One thing to watch for: if your SNS topic has a subscription filter policy, make sure it still applies correctly with the new Hyperping endpoint. Hyperping accepts the standard SNS message format, so in most cases this works without changes.

Grafana + OpsGenie to Hyperping

Grafana connects to OpsGenie through its alerting contact points (or notification channels in older versions). Alerts defined in Grafana dashboards or Grafana Alerting fire to OpsGenie when thresholds are breached.

What Hyperping replaces

Grafana is primarily a visualization and dashboarding tool. Its alerting capabilities are secondary to its visualization strengths. If you are using Grafana alerts for basic endpoint monitoring, Hyperping replaces that with purpose-built checks that are more reliable for uptime monitoring.

What stays in Grafana

Most Grafana alerts are tied to custom dashboards visualizing metrics from Prometheus, InfluxDB, or other data sources. These metric-based alerts should stay in Grafana, with the notification destination updated.

Updating Grafana contact points

In Grafana's alerting configuration, go to Contact Points and either edit the existing OpsGenie contact point or create a new one. Select "Webhook" as the type and enter Hyperping's incoming webhook URL.

Then update your notification policies to use the new Hyperping contact point instead of the OpsGenie one. If you have different notification policies for different alert severity levels, update each one that routes to OpsGenie.

In Grafana 9+ with Grafana Alerting, you can also set up multiple contact points per notification policy. This is useful during the parallel run period, letting you send alerts to both OpsGenie and Hyperping simultaneously.

Custom webhook integrations

Beyond the major platforms, most teams have custom integrations posting to OpsGenie's API. These include internal deployment tools, CI/CD pipelines, custom monitoring scripts, and third-party SaaS products.

Identifying custom webhooks

In your OpsGenie account, go to Settings and then Integrations. Filter for "API" and "Webhook" types. Each of these represents a custom integration that needs updating.

For each custom integration, document:

• What system sends the webhook
• What events trigger it
• Who set it up and who maintains it
• Whether it is still active (check last alert timestamp)

Updating webhook URLs

For most custom integrations, the migration is a URL swap. Replace the OpsGenie API endpoint with Hyperping's incoming webhook endpoint.

Hyperping's webhook API accepts JSON payloads with a straightforward format. If your custom integrations use OpsGenie-specific payload fields (like alias, responders, or priority), you may need to adjust the payload to match Hyperping's expected format. The Hyperping documentation covers the exact payload structure.

For integrations that use OpsGenie's REST API directly (creating alerts, updating alert status, closing alerts), you need to update the API calls to use Hyperping's API instead. The concepts map closely: creating an alert in OpsGenie corresponds to triggering an incident in Hyperping.

Integration audit template

Before you start migrating, run a full audit. Use this template to catalog every OpsGenie integration.

Integration name	Type	Source system	Can Hyperping replace?	Action needed	Priority	Owner
Datadog HTTP monitors	Monitoring	Datadog	Yes	Remove, set up Hyperping checks	High	SRE team
Datadog APM alerts	APM	Datadog	No, reroute webhook	Update webhook URL	High	SRE team
Prometheus blackbox probes	Monitoring	Alertmanager	Yes	Remove, set up Hyperping checks	High	Platform team
Prometheus app metrics	Metrics	Alertmanager	No, reroute webhook	Update receiver config	Medium	Platform team
CloudWatch Route53 checks	Monitoring	AWS SNS	Yes	Remove, set up Hyperping checks	High	Cloud team
CloudWatch EC2 alarms	Infrastructure	AWS SNS	No, reroute webhook	Update SNS subscription	Medium	Cloud team
Grafana dashboard alerts	Metrics	Grafana	No, reroute webhook	Update contact point	Medium	DevOps team
Deploy notifications	CI/CD	Jenkins	No, reroute webhook	Update webhook URL	Low	DevOps team
Custom health checker	Monitoring	Internal script	Yes	Remove, use Hyperping	Medium	Backend team

How to run the audit

1. Export your OpsGenie integration list from Settings > Integrations.
2. For each integration, check the last alert timestamp. If it has not fired in 90+ days, consider whether it is still needed.
3. Classify each integration using the table above.
4. Assign an owner and priority.
5. Work through the list from high to low priority.

This audit typically reveals that 30-50% of integrations are either unused or replaceable by Hyperping's built-in monitoring. That realization alone makes the migration feel much more manageable.

Planning your migration timeline

Based on what I have seen across teams migrating from OpsGenie, here is a realistic timeline:

Phase	Duration	Activities
Audit	1-2 days	Catalog all integrations, classify, assign owners
Hyperping setup	1-3 days	Configure monitors for all replaceable integrations
Webhook rerouting	2-5 days	Update Datadog, Prometheus, AWS, Grafana, custom webhooks
On-call and escalations	1-2 days	Recreate schedules and policies in Hyperping
Parallel run	2-4 weeks	Run both platforms, validate every alert path
Cutover	1 day	Disable OpsGenie routing, confirm Hyperping coverage

The total active work is roughly 1-2 weeks. The parallel run adds another 2-4 weeks, but that is largely passive monitoring rather than active work.

For a complete step-by-step process covering on-call schedules, escalation policies, and status pages alongside integrations, see our migration checklist. And for context on why the shutdown is happening and what your options are, read the full OpsGenie shutdown alternatives guide.

Start with the audit

The integration migration feels overwhelming because most teams do not know the full scope of what they are dealing with. The audit changes that.

Once you see the full list and realize that Hyperping's built-in monitoring eliminates a significant chunk of your integrations, the remaining work is mostly updating webhook URLs. That is configuration, not engineering.

If you want to see how Hyperping handles monitoring, on-call, and incident management in one platform, start a free trial. You can also check our OpsGenie integration page to run both platforms in parallel during your transition.

For teams evaluating how Hyperping compares to other devops alert management approaches, the core advantage is consolidation: fewer tools, fewer integration points, fewer things to maintain.