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# Minimize harm and server downtime with Better Stack

Server downtime can hurt a business, but Better Stack and Zapier can help your team respond and resolve incidents faster.

While the rest of us think "snow day!" when our team chat app is down, server downtime can seriously hurt a business. 

[Better Stack](https://betterstack.com/) [helps engineering teams](https://betterstack.com/community/guides/) monitor critical infrastructure, ensure on-call coverage, and easily communicate and resolve incidents before they escalate. 

Unfortunately, server incidents don't wait for the perfect moment to occur, so you need to alert teams fast so they can jump into action. Thankfully, your engineers don't need to be glued to their screens to ensure a rapid response. 

You can create a simple Zap (our word for automated workflows) that will automatically send a Discord channel message whenever there's a new or updated incident in Better Stack. You can alert the right people about new incidents and provide ongoing updates until everything is resolved. 

**The challenge: **Server incidents are unpredictable, so you need to ensure issues are caught early, before they escalate.

**The solution:** Notify your team wherever they're at. Automatically send alerts in a Discord channel whenever there's a new or updated incident in Better Stack. 

**Ready to try it yourself?** To get started with a Zap template—our pre-made workflows—just click on it, and we'll guide you through the set-up process. It only takes a few minutes.

**Zap difficulty:** Beginner

**Top tip:** Don't use Discord to communicate with your team? No problem! Better Stack connects with [other team chat and project management tools through Zapier](https://zapier.com/apps), so you never miss an incident.

This is just the start of all that you can do with [Better Stack and Zapier](https://zapier.com/apps/better-stack/integrations). Zapier supports thousands of apps, so you can automate almost any task at work. [Start building your Zap now](https://zapier.com/app/editor) with Better Stack, and see what you can create.