Slack Notification

Ascend's Monitoring and Notifications system enables operators to create a webhook that publishes events to an endpoint.

One option integrates Ascend events into a Slack Notification.

1. Create a Slack incoming webhook endpoint to send a message.
2. Locate the Webhook URL generated from the app.
3. Create a new Ascend webhook from the Data Service settings.
4. Set the Notification URL to the one found in step 2.
5. Add a Header with key Content-Type and value application/json.
6. Select the events that you would like to create Slack messages.
7. Add the event payload, mapping the Webhook Notification Event Variable to the desired Slack message.

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Note

The Slack integration requires that the payload be wrapped in a JSON object with the key "text", as shown below. Otherwise, notifications will not appear in your Slack channel.

{
	"text": "Error in in data service `{{event.dataService.id}}` dataflow `{{event.dataflow.id}}` for {{event.component.type}} `{{event.component.id}}` at `{{event.eventTime}}` changed to state `{{event.componentStateChange.to.text}}`."
}