{"id":4403,"date":"2014-03-12T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:16:52","slug":"updates-alerts-now-webhooks-slack-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/updates-alerts-now-webhooks-slack-integration","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Webhooks and Slack integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/14_03_12_slackwebhooks_01.png\" alt=\"GoSquared traffic spike notifications integrate with Webhooks Slack and Emails\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re announcing some updates to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/traffic-spike-alerts\" title=\"Real-time traffic spike alerts\">real-time traffic alerts<\/a>. Now, as well as being able to receive alerts via email, you can also choose to receive alerts via custom <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Webhook\" title=\"More information on Webhooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webhooks<\/a>. On top of that, you can now receive alerts about traffic spikes and dips through our new <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/r\/024ge12x-0253s6ep\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Slack - awesome team collaboration and chat\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slack<\/a> integration.<\/p>\n<h2>Slack Integration<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/14_03_12_slackwebhooks_02.png\" alt=\"GoSquared traffic alert in Slack\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here at GoSquared we use <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.gosquared.com\/switching-from-campfire-to-slack\" title=\"Why we switched to Slack for team communication\">Slack<\/a> for team communication. It&#8217;s a fantastic group chat service that&#8217;s also great for pulling in data in real-time via their many <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/integrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">integrations<\/a>. We&#8217;re pleased to announce GoSquared&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/integrations\" title=\"Official Slack integrations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official Slack integration<\/a>, which (if you&#8217;re already a Slack user) you can activate <a href=\"https:\/\/my.slack.com\/services\/new\/gosquared\">here<\/a>. Now your whole team can be kept in the loop of traffic spikes or dips with real-time notifications psoted straight into a Slack channel.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you want to try out Slack, you&#8217;ll get $100 of credit, and also give us a nice kickback of the same amount, if you <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/r\/024ge12x-0253s6ep\" title=\"$100 of credit for using Slack via this link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Custom Webhooks<\/h2>\n<p>GoSquared Notifications now support custom webhooks, allowing you to trigger your own custom actions based on alerts such as traffic spikes or sudden traffic dips. You could trigger any custom action based on a GoSquared alert, such as scaling your infrastructure, or post alerts via your own communication channel. Take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/gosquared.desk.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/1036771-setting-up-and-using-traffic-alerts\">webhook integration docs<\/a> to get set up!<\/p>\n<h2>What happened to Twitter DMs?<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had the option to receiver traffic alerts via Twitter DM for a while now. Unfortunately, Twitter imposes a limit on the number of DMs an account can send per day, and we quickly passed that number. There&#8217;s no way around the limit and Twitter doesn&#8217;t make exceptions, so sadly we&#8217;ve had to remove support for alerts via DM. We&#8217;re sad to say goodbye to alerts via Twitter Direct Messages, but we&#8217;re very excited with where these new integrations will enable people to take their GoSquared data going forward.<\/p>\n<h2>Feedback<\/h2>\n<p>As with any new feature we roll out, we&#8217;re always very keen to get your feedback. If you want another service integrated in GoSquared, or you have ideas for an integration you want to do through Webhooks, please let us know \u2013\u00a0we want to make it happen! We&#8217;re on all the usual channels, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/support\/emails\/new\" title=\"Email us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoSquared\" title=\"GoSquared on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gosquared.desk.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/1036771-setting-up-and-using-traffic-alerts\" title=\"More information about GoSquared traffic alerts and notifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about the new Notifications over on our support site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/14_03_12_slackwebhooks_01.png\" alt=\"GoSquared traffic spike notifications integrate with Webhooks Slack and Emails\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re announcing some updates to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/traffic-spike-alerts\" title=\"Real-time traffic spike alerts\">real-time traffic alerts<\/a>. 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