Enabling Slack Integration

One of our goals in building CloudZero was to fit naturally into how engineering organizations work today. We know that no one likes to stare at a dashboard, never mind spend time making custom reports. That's why CloudZero is predicated on finding interesting things happening in your environment and pushing that information to you.

CloudZero does this through Notifications. These notifications can be configured with Slack to easily route alerts to different channels based on filters such as by dimensions, tags, or accounts. To enable this functionality, you'll first connect CloudZero with your Slack workspace.

Connecting CloudZero to your Slack workspace

1. Navigate to the App Integrations page.
2. Select Add to Slack. This will launch Slack and prompt for authorization. This may require a workspace admin to approve the request.

Selecting a Slack channel for notifications

Every organization has a 'Global View' that will report on all of the cloud spend across your entire organization. CloudZero administrators in your organization can change the Slack channel that those notifications are delivered to by editing the Global View.

In order to add a Slack channel to receive notifications you must enter a Slack Channel ID. You can find a channels ID by going to the channel, clicking on the name of the channel in the top left corner and scroll down to the bottom of the About tab (this is the default tab) and copy the channel ID.

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Sending messages to a private Slack channel

If you'd like CloudZero to deliver notifications to a private Slack channel, you must first invite the CloudZero app into that channel. To invite CloudZero to a private channel, open the channel in Slack and type /invite @CloudZero.