From 8efb39ee2b8b017f7450a93802e5ea0a5f6965d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bergquist Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:25:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: more details about slack notifier closes #11059 --- docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md b/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md index 453d169457b..fe57fd0fa8f 100644 --- a/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md +++ b/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Recipient | allows you to override the Slack recipient. Mention | make it possible to include a mention in the Slack notification sent by Grafana. Ex @here or @channel Token | If provided, Grafana will upload the generated image via Slack's file.upload API method, not the external image destination. +If you are using the token for a slack bot, then you have to invite the bot to the channel you want to send notifications and add the channel to the recipient field. + ### PagerDuty To set up PagerDuty, all you have to do is to provide an API key.