Alerting status updates in Slack

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Overview of steps

1. Set up webhooks for Slack
2. Update Mage project settings

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Set up webhooks for Slack

Follow these instructions on Slack to setup incoming webhooks for your workspace.

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Update Mage project settings

Once you’ve set up webhooks for Slack, you should have a webhook URL that Slack provides.

Here is an example webhook (yours may vary):

https://hooks.slack.com/services/T01XXXXRKMJ/B04XXXXGY67/1UgUkao8pXXXXPmsuXXXX2lk

Follow these steps to add that webhook URL to your project settings:

1. Open the Mage tool in your browser (e.g. http://localhost:6789/).

2. Open a pipeline and start editing it (e.g. http://localhost:6789/pipelines/example_pipeline/edit).

3. In your left sidebar in the file browser, scroll all the way down and click on a file named metadata.yaml.

4. In the metadata.yaml file, add a section with the following configuration or update the existing notification_config section:

   notification_config:
     alert_on:
       - trigger_failure
       - trigger_passed_sla
   

   If you omit the alert_on section it will default to trigger_failure and trigger_passed_sla.

   Options:

   • trigger_failure: alert when a run of a trigger fails
   • trigger_success: alert when a run of a trigger succeeds
   • trigger_passed_sla: alert when a SLA is missed.
     • In this context, SLA (Service Level Agreement) is an expected amount of time for the pipeline to complete.
     • If the pipeline runs longer than the SLA, an alert will be sent.

5. In the metadata.yaml file, add the following values:

   notification_config:
     alert_on:
       ...
     slack_config:
       webhook_url: ...
   

   Change the webhook_url value to be the webhook URL you created from Slack.

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Customize message templates

You can customize message templates in notification_config. Here is an example config:

notification_config:
  alert_on:
    ...
  slack_config:
    ...
  message_templates:
    failure:
      details: >
        Failed to execute pipeline {pipeline_run_url}.
        Pipeline uuid: {pipeline_uuid}. Trigger name: {pipeline_schedule_name}.
        Test custom message."
    success:
      details: ...
    passed_sla:
      details: ...

You can customize the message template for success, failure, passed_sla scenarios. For each message template, you can specify either summary or details.

• If you specify the summary, the slack message will be your summary + the url of the pipeline run page
• If you specify the details, the details will be used as your slack message directly

To interpolate variables in the message template, you can use {variable_name} syntax. Here are the supported variables:

1. execution_time
2. pipeline_run_url
3. pipeline_schedule_id
4. pipeline_schedule_name
5. pipeline_uuid
6. error
   • available only for the failure message template
7. stacktrace
   • available only for the failure message template

For pipeline_run_url, the default host is http://localhost:6789. You can specify MAGE_PUBLIC_HOST to be the host url you want to use in the notification messages.

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What next?

Whenever a pipeline run is successfully completed or fails, a Slack message will appear in the channel you configured the webhook URL for.

Here is an example of what that message could look like: