Backup alerts in Slack.
Post failed and missing backups to the channel your team already watches, with a recovery message when the next report is OK.
- Webhook
- A Slack incoming webhook on hooks.slack.com.
- One channel
- Alerts post to the channel the webhook belongs to.
- Recovery
- A message when the next report is OK.
- Send test
- Check the webhook before the first alert.
Connect Slack.
A channel takes a minute to add. Owners and admins manage channels; everyone sees where each alert went.
- In Slack, create an incoming webhook for the channel that should receive alerts.
- In BackupSentinel, open Settings → Alert channels, add a Slack channel and paste the Slack webhook URL (it starts with https://hooks.slack.com/).
- Choose which clients it covers, or keep it for escalations only.
- Press Send test to see a message arrive.
What it sends.
- Alerts
- Failed and missing backups, and warnings outside quiet hours, with the job and the client.
- Recovery
- A recovery message when the next report is OK, or a resolved message when someone resolves the alert.
- Escalations
- "Not acknowledged" when the channel is used for escalations.
The same rules on every channel.
- One alert per job
- A job with an open problem has one alert. A warning that becomes a failure raises the same alert instead of sending a second one.
- Retries
- A delivery that fails is retried every 10 minutes, up to 5 attempts in all, while the alert is still open.
- Quiet hours
- Warnings are not sent during the workspace's quiet hours; they stay in Needs attention. Failed and missing backups are always sent.
- Scoping
- A channel can take every client's alerts or only some clients', or be kept for escalations only.
- Failures shown
- Each alert shows where it was sent and what failed. A channel with a failed delivery in the last 24 hours appears in Needs attention.
What it does not do.
- Only Slack incoming webhooks (hooks.slack.com) are accepted; there is no Slack app with buttons.
- Acknowledging and resolving happen in BackupSentinel, not from Slack.
Send your first backup alert to Slack.
Start the free trial, add the channel, and point one backup's report at its client address.