# Slack

Set up a **Slack** connection for Streaming Data Platform alerts and notifications.

### Set up  <a href="#set-up" id="set-up"></a>

**1.** Visit **Admin → Connections** and click **New connection**

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**2.** Select **Slack**

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**3.** Provide a name and configuration

You can also optionally add tags (i.e. dev), and for the URL endpoint, check Slack API Help.

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### Add channel  <a href="#add-channel" id="add-channel"></a>

Next, add one or multiple target Slack channels.

**1.** Visit **Admin → Channels** and click **Slack**

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**2.** Setup the configuration options

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For example, the above will create the `DevOps Slack`, that is, using the **Slack** connection to post to the `#devops` channel using the `alerting` username.

Do not forget to prepend the Slack channel name with a `#`.

### An example  <a href="#an-example" id="an-example"></a>

If, for example you create a rule to send infrastructure notifications to Slack, then the moment a Broker becomes offline, you will be notified:

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