Slack
Get alert notifications directly within your Slack workspace
To receive alert notifications from seedata into any Slack channel you choose, you'll need to create a slack app, and provide us with the associated webhook url.
Step 1: Create Slack Application in Slack
You should follow the steps on slack's website to create a new webhook application while logged into your slack account, here: https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks. In summary, this will ask you to do the following
Click "Create New App" and then "From Scratch"
Give it a name (we suggest "seedata-io") and select the desired slack workspace, then click "Create app"
In the next page, under "Add features and functionality" select "Incoming Webhooks" then set "Activate Incoming Webhooks" to "On"
Click "Add New Webhook to Workspace" , then select the channel you want.
Copy the webhook
Step 2: Create Slack Integration in seedata.io
This is where you'll configure seedata.io to use the slack application you've just used
Click Add New and set TYPE to "Slack"
Give this integration a name and description so you know why you have created it
Select the priorities of events you want to be sent to this Slack channel (more info here; Events)
Paste in the previously copied webhook URL
We provide a default template for the message that will be sent. You're free to change this, by adding any free text you wish along with any seedata.io variables. There's even a handy "Reset Template" button if you want to restore our default template at any time.
Hit Save
Step 3: Test your new Slack integration
You should now see a new row in the alerts table, with the name and description you previously entered. We provide a facility to send a test message, to prove we are able to deliver messages
Click on the actions button on the right side of the row for your new slack integration [ ... ]
Click on Test and confirm you wish to send a test alert
Witness the majesty of our shiny new alert in your Slack Channel, and go home proud of a good job done well!
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