Alert Destination

Whenever an Alert triggers, it sends a blob of related data (called the Alert Template) to its designated Alert Destinations. Destinations can use this blob of data to fire off emails, Slack messages, or custom webhooks. You can set up new Alert Destinations from the settings screen.

Add A New Alert Destination

There are a few types of destinations to choose from:

• Email

• Slack

• PagerDuty

• Mattermost

• Google Hangouts Chat

• HipChat

• ChatWork

• Generic WebHook

The default destination for any alert is the email address of the user who created it. If you made an alert and need to be notified by email then you don’t need to set up a new Alert Destination. Instead, toggle the switch beside your email address on the alert setup screen.

To configure one, select it from Create a New Alert Destination dialogue and follow its prompts.

Slack

1. Open “Alert Destinations” tab in the settings screen, and click on ”+ New Alert Destination”.

2. In the form that opens pick “Slack” as the type.

3. Set the name, channel, etc., and provide a “Slack Webhook URL”, which you can create here: https://my.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook/. If the Webhook target is a channel in the channel field make sure to prefix the channel name with # (i.e. #marketing). If the destination is a direct message to a user, prefix it with @ (i.e. @smartguy).
4. You add this new destination for any alert that you want to be sent to Slack.