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Slack Integration

Connect AlertifyPro to Slack to receive rich, interactive alert notifications directly in your channels.

What you'll get​

  • 🚨 Incident alerts with service name, failure reason, and time
  • ✅ Recovery notifications when services come back online
  • 🔕 Acknowledge button directly in Slack — no dashboard needed
  • 📊 Uptime summary in weekly digest messages

Setup​

Step 1: Create a Slack App (or use our OAuth)​

Option A — OAuth (recommended):

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations → Slack
  2. Click "Connect to Slack"
  3. Authorize AlertifyPro in the OAuth popup
  4. Select the channel to receive alerts

Option B — Incoming Webhook:

  1. Go to api.slack.com/apps and create an app
  2. Enable Incoming Webhooks
  3. Click "Add New Webhook to Workspace"
  4. Select a channel and copy the webhook URL
  5. In AlertifyPro → Settings → Integrations → Slack → paste the URL

Step 2: Configure notification channels​

integrations:
  slack:
    webhook_url: "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXX"
    
    # Different channels per severity
    channels:
      critical: "#ops-critical"
      warning: "#ops-alerts"
      info: "#ops-info"
      recovery: "#ops-alerts"

Step 3: Test the connection​

Click "Send test notification" in the dashboard. You should see a test message in your Slack channel within a few seconds.

Notification format​

Critical alert example:

🚨 ALERT — Production API is DOWN
──────────────────────────────────
Service:   api.yourapp.com
Reason:    HTTP 503 Service Unavailable
Duration:  3 minutes 24 seconds
Regions:   us-east-1, eu-west-1 (2/2 failing)
Started:   Today at 14:23 UTC

[Acknowledge]  [View Dashboard]  [Silence 1hr]

Recovery message:

✅ RESOLVED — Production API recovered
──────────────────────────────────────
Service:    api.yourapp.com
Downtime:   6 minutes 12 seconds
Resolved:   Today at 14:29 UTC

Per-monitor Slack channels​

Route different monitors to different Slack channels:

monitors:
  - name: Production API
    alerts:
      slack:
        channel: "#production-alerts"

  - name: Staging API
    alerts:
      slack:
        channel: "#staging-alerts"

Slash commands​

Once the OAuth app is installed, you can use Slash commands in Slack:

CommandDescription
/wk statusShow current status of all monitors
/wk incidentsList open incidents
/wk ack <id>Acknowledge an alert
/wk mute <id> 1hSilence a monitor for 1 hour
/wk uptime <name> 30dShow 30-day uptime for a monitor

Troubleshooting​

Not receiving messages?

  • Check the webhook URL is correct and the channel exists
  • Ensure the Slack App has permission to post in the channel
  • Verify AlertifyPro can reach hooks.slack.com (no firewall blocking)

Duplicate messages?

  • You may have both OAuth and Webhook configured. Remove one.