Set up Slack

This is an incoming webhook, not the Slack sign-in connector. One environment can have several channels, each with its own triggers.

Create the incoming webhook

1. In Slack, create an incoming webhook for the channel that should receive alerts.
2. Copy the URL. It looks like https://hooks.slack.com/services/....

Add the channel in Authdog

In the Authdog console:

1. Select the project and environment.
2. Open Notifications > Channels.
3. Select Add Channel.
4. Set Channel Name and Channel Type to Slack.
5. Paste the URL into Webhook URL.
6. Set Default Channel if you want the message routed to a named channel in addition to the webhook's default.
7. Pick the triggers. A growth channel might take sign-ups only. A security channel might take failures and privilege changes. An empty event list drains every event.
8. Save and send a test.

The webhook URL is stored as a secret and shown redacted after save. Delivery retries on failure, with backoff starting at 60 seconds, up to five attempts. A brief Slack outage does not drop the event.

Test it

1. Send the channel's test delivery and confirm the message in Slack.
2. Trigger a real event you subscribed to, such as a sign-in in that environment.
3. Confirm a channel with a narrow trigger list stays quiet for events you did not select.

Create the production channel in the production environment. Dev and prod do not share webhook URLs.

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