Slack

Crawler

Overview

Connect Slack to Datadog in order to help your team collaborate by:

• Sharing graphs with your colleagues in your team’s private or public channels.
• Receiving alerts and notifications from Datadog within Slack.

Setup

Installation

The Slack integration is installed via its integration tile in the Datadog application.

Configuration

1. In your Slack account, go to the Applications page and search for Datadog.
2. Click Install –> Add Integration, then copy the Slack Webhook URL.
3. Navigate to the Datadog-Slack integration tile in the configuration tab.
4. Click on Add Account
5. Add a Slack Account Name of your choice.
6. Paste the Webhook URL in the Slack Account Hook field.
7. Click Save.
8. Add your Slack Channels to post to:

9. If you would like to be notified for every comment on a graph, tick the check box Transfer all user comments by each channel. If this box is left unchecked, you must use the @slack-<ACCOUNT_NAME>-<CHANNEL_NAME> syntax in order for comments to be posted to Slack. You may use @slack-<CHANNEL_NAME> if you are only using one account or referring to the first account.

You can also configure sending alerts to Slack from monitors and the event stream.

Data Collected

Metrics

The Slack integration does not provide any metrics.

Events

The Slack integration does not include any events.

Service Checks

The Slack integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.