Notifications

Notifications are a great way to stay up to date with activities in your warehouse. You can let re_data send you notifications for alerts that occured within a specified date range.

re_data currently supports the following channels for notifications.

Slack#

To send alerts to a slack channel, we make use of incoming webhooks which is a simple way to post messages from apps into Slack.

The steps required to enable incoming webhooks and get started can be found in the slack API docs. Once you have created an incoming webhook successfully, you should see a new entry under Webhook URLs for Your Workspace section, with a Webhook URL that'll look something like this:

https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The webhook url can now be used with the re_data notify command as shown below,

re_data notify slack \--start-date 2021-01-01 \--end-date 2021-01-31 \--webhook-url https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \--subtitle="[Optional] Markdown text to be added as a subtitle in the slack message generated"

Below is a sample alert notification message sent by a slack app created.

SlackMessage

By default, the most recent 20 alerts are shown and you can generate the Observability UI to show more details relating to alerts.

Want to learn more?#

Check out the rest of re_data docs, or ask as on Slack! 😊 (we are very responsive there)