How to report to Slack

With this tutorial, our goal is to explain how to configure eHive and Slack to be able to report messages to a Slack channel.

First of all, you obviously need to have a Slack team. You or someone else will have to be allowed to configure Apps.


Let’s first add the “Incoming WebHooks” app to your team:

  1. In the main Slack menu select “Apps & Custom Integrations”.

  2. Find “Incoming WebHooks” via the search box and select it.

  3. You should be on a page that gives an introduction about WebHooks and lists the teams you belong to. Somebody may have already configured some WebHooks for your team.

    1. If it is the case, click on the “Configure” button next to your team name and then “Add Configuration”.

    2. Otherwise, click on the “Install” button next to your team name.

Let’s now configure a webhook to use with eHive:

  1. You first need to choose the channel eHive will write too. Although the Slack API allows to override the channel and thus use a single webhook to post to different channels, we advise to configure one webhook per channel.

  2. Click “Add Incoming WebHooks Integration”.

  3. The page now shows advanced configuration for the integration. The most important here is the “Webhook URL”. This is what eHive needs.

  4. If you scroll down to “Integration Settings” you can give a description for the WebHook, change its name and emoji. Note that the latter can be overridden in the Runnable SlackNotification.

Use the WebHook in eHive:

  1. Define the EHIVE_SLACK_WEBHOOK environment variable when running your Beekeeper.

  2. Configure the slack_webhook parameter in the SlackNotification Runnable.