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31 Oct 2024

Sending Notifications from Uptime Kuma to Slack

Monitoring services play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability of your applications and services. Uptime Kuma is an open-source self-hosted monitoring solution that provides an intuitive interface for monitoring the uptime of your services. One of its valuable features is the ability to send notifications, including those to the popular messaging platform Slack. This article will guide you through the steps to set up Uptime Kuma to send notifications to a Slack channel.

23 Oct 2024

Sending Alert Notifications from Alertmanager to Slack

In an ever-evolving infrastructure landscape, it’s crucial for DevOps engineers to have solid monitoring and alerting setups. Prometheus, a widely-used open-source monitoring system, features Alertmanager which can help manage alerts and send notifications to various platforms, including Slack. This article will guide you through the process of setting up Alertmanager to send alert notifications to a Slack channel, ensuring you and your team are informed about critical issues in real-time.

21 Oct 2024

Building a Simple Python App to Relay AMQP Messages to Slack

In today’s cloud-native environments, services often communicate over various protocols. One common use case is to receive messages from an AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) broker and relay those messages to a channel on Slack. This article will walk you through the process of building a simple Python application that fulfills this task. Overview We’ll create a Python application that listens for messages from an AMQP broker (like RabbitMQ) and sends them to a designated Slack channel using Slack’s Incoming Webhooks.