Slack - Send Message | Alli Documentation

Overview

Send a Slack message to any channel or DM, alerting any user in your company.

Variables

Name	Reference	Type	Required	Default	Options	Description
Destination Type	SLACK_DESTINATION_TYPE	Select	✅	channel	Channel: channel DM: dm	The type of location where you want your message to be sent. If Channel is selected, a message can be sent directly to a channel. If DM is selected, users can be sent messages directly from your app.
Channel Name	SLACK_CHANNEL_NAME	Alphanumeric	➖	None	-	The name of the channel where you want your message to be sent, without the # prefix. This field will be ignored if the destination type is DM.
Users to Notify	SLACK_USERS_TO_NOTIFY	Alphanumeric	➖	None	-	A comma separated list of case insensitive user emails, used to look up slack user IDs. This field is only required if the Destination Type is DM.
Message	SLACK_MESSAGE	Alphanumeric	✅	None	-	The message that you want sent to a user. You can use all of the same markdown syntax that you would typically use in a Slack message. If you want to create a link in your message, you can use the format of

YAML

Below is the YAML template

YAML


source:
  template: Slack - Send Message
  inputs:
    SLACK_DESTINATION_TYPE: channel
    SLACK_CHANNEL_NAME:
    SLACK_USERS_TO_NOTIFY:
    SLACK_MESSAGE:
  type: TEMPLATE
guardrails:
  retry_count: 1
  retry_wait: 0h0m0s
  runtime_cutoff: 1h0m0s
  exclude_exit_code_ranges:
    - 101
    - 102
    - 200
    - 203