Slack Integration

You can integrate Slack for receiving alert notifications from the Actian Data Observability Platform.

Instructions

To send notifications to a Slack channel:

• Create a new Slack app with sufficient privileges to post messages to a public Slack channel
• Create a new alert channel for slack communications in Data Observability

Create a new Slack app

1. Navigate to Slack API apps. The page opens in a new tab
2. Sign in or create an account
3. Select Create an App
4. Set App Name to "Actian Data Observability Notifier”
5. Select the Development Slack Workspace where you'd like the Slack Bot to post messages, and then click Create App.
6. In the navigation panel, select OAuth & Permissions.
7. Navigate to the Scopes/Bot Token Scopes, click Add an OAuth Scope then select chat:write and chat:write.public.
8. Scroll to the top of the OAuth & Permissions page and click Install App to Workspace.
9. In the confirmation dialog, click Allow (save the Bot User OAuth Access Token for use in the Actian Data Observability channel).

Create a Slack alert channel in the Data Observability Platform

1. Click on Alerting Policies in the left hand menu
2. Click on Manage Alert Channels
3. Click on + Alert Channel
4. Select Slack in Alert Channel Type drop down
5. Enter Channel Name
6. Enter token from Bot User OAuth Access Token
7. Enter the slack channel you want to receive alerts. (You can add multiple channels by clicking on Add)
8. Click on Test. The Data Observability Platform will send a test message to the provided channels

9. If everything looks good, click on Save

   Note Select this channel in alert settings so it can be is used for notifications.