Enabling Slack notifications

1. Navigate to Slack’s Custom Integrations page and log in to your team’s account.
   
   
   
2. Select Incoming WebHooks, and then click Add Configuration.
   
   
   
   
3. Choose or create a new Slack channel to receive the monitoring alerts. Notifications can be configured such that they are sent to users as a direct message.
   
   Note: This only creates a default channel. Alerts can be set up for multiple channels and/or users in the NS1 portal. (See below for details.)
   
   
   
   
4. Select Add Incoming WebHooks integration to generate WebHook URL, which will be copied into the NS1 portal (see below).

Setting Up Notifications in the NS1 Portal

1. Navigate to a monitoring job and click the Notifiers tab.
2. Assign an existing notification list to this monitoring job (if one is not attached already) or simply add a new notifier. Read more about setting up notification lists.
   
   
   
   
3. Click Add Notifier, and Slack from the drop-down menu.
4. Enter the Slack channel or user to which the notifications should be delivered.
   Keep in mind:
   - This does not need to match the channel entered when creating Slack WebHook. Channels entered in NS1 portal will override.
   - Notifications can be sent to Slack channels and/or users. Be sure to include @ or #.
   - Multiple notifications can be sent simultaneously to different channels and/or users
   
   
5. Copy and paste the WebHook URL from Slack.
   
   
6. Enter a name for the notification in the Slackbot username field.
   
   
   
   
7. Click Save Notifier.

Alerts are sent to Slack whenever the up/down status changes for a monitor assigned to the same notification list. This can be updated in the Monitors section of the NS1 portal.

Slack notification include: monitor name, region, up/down status and timestamp.