Before configuring this integration, please make sure you have a dedicated Slack channel that you will use for incident alerting.
If you don't have one, you can create a new one, and name it for example #betterstack, #incidents or #on-call.
This integration allows you to receive incident alerts directly in Slack.
The incident alert message includes information about the monitor, as well as the options to acknowledge the incident or to view more details in Uptime.
Since the incident alert is posted as a regular Slack message, you can create a thread under it - tag your colleagues and quickly start collaborating.
Before configuring this integration, please make sure you have a dedicated Slack channel that you will use for incident alerting.
If you don't have one, you can create a new one, and name it for example #betterstack, #incidents or #on-call.
Now all new incidents will automatically be posted into this Slack channel, as well as all monitor's alerts.
To post incidents into multiple Slack channels, or to only post incidents from a specific monitor, we need to create a dedicated escalation policy:
You can select both public and private channels when creating a new Slack integration:
To allow the integrationto write to your private channel, manually add our bot by writing /add app
directly into it in Slack:
Search for the Better Stack
app and add it:
And you're done! π
Now you can click Send test alert in Better Stack to test the connection: