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Superpowered Slack...
Downtime Alerts to Slack
Get a notification message sent directly to your Slack workspace if your website goes down...
And another when the site comes back online.
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Why Slack?
Slack is a great way to receive downtime notifications because:
It's super fast - once sent, Slack notifications are received almost instantly (email can take a few minutes).
It's great for teams - when a downtime alert is sent, everyone signed-up to the Slack channel will be notified.
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Slack Notification Features
Choose a Slack channel to receive alerts
Set alert notifications to be sent the instant a website is detected down, or...
Set alert delays - notifications will only be sent if a site stays down for x minutes. Options are: 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes
Repeat notifications can be sent if a site stays down for y minutes. Options are: 10, 20, 30 minutes or 1, 2, 3, 6 12 or 24 hours
There is no limit to the number of notifications that can be sent, but you can...
Rate limit alerts - set the maximum number of downtime notifications per hour. Options are: 3, 5, 10, 20, 50 notifications per hour
Send test alerts - for peace of mind you can manually send a test alert to check your Slack account is correctly connected
1 Minute Setup
- Login to your Downtime Monkey account
- Go to Slack Settings and click the 'Add to Slack' button
- Select a Slack channel and click 'Authorize'
- Update your monitors or add some new ones
- You'll see a choice to turn Slack alerts 'on' or 'off'
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Total Privacy
At Downtime Monkey your privacy is critically important to us.
Our Slack App only asks for the minimum permissions that it needs to work: to confirm a user's Slack workspace and post to a specific channel on Slack.
We can't view any of your Slack messages... and we don't want to!