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Send Notifications Using Slack

You can receive Harness notifications in your Slack channels. You simply add a Slack Incoming Webhook into a Harness User Groups' Notification Settings.

Then you can add your User Group to a Workflow Notification Strategy and other settings and receive deployment and alert info in Slack.

In this topic:

Before You Begin​

Visual Summary​

Adding a Slack channel to your Harness User Groups Notification Settings is as simple as pasting in a Slack Webhook:

Step 1: Create a Slack App and Webhook for your Channel​

Follow the steps in Slack documentation for creating a Slack app, selecting your channel, and creating a webhook:  Sending messages using Incoming Webhooks.

When you are done, you'll have a webhook that looks something like this:

Copy the Webhook.

Step 2: Add the Webhook to the User Group Notification Settings​

  1. In Harness Manager, click Continuous Security, and then click Access Management.
  2. In Access Management, click User Groups.
  3. Click the name of an existing User Group, or create a new User Group with the steps in  Managing Users and Groups (RBAC).
  4. Locate the Notification Settings section.

  1. Click more options (⋮), then click Edit. The Notification Settings appear.
  2. Paste the Webhook into Slack Webhook URL and click Submit.

Now your Slack channel will be used to notify this User Group when it is added to a Workflow Notification Strategy, as well as other alerts.