# Lampwick alerts in Slack

> Send Lampwick alerts and new or reopened issues to a Slack channel through an incoming webhook. Team owners set it up in a minute, with a test message.

An alert channel posts a team's alerts, and its new and reopened issues, to a Slack channel. Push notifications and e-mail keep going out as well.

## What you get

- **Down** and **Up again** for uptime monitors, SSL and domain expiry, **DNS records changed**, **Broken links**, and **Missed**, **Failed** or **Slow** scheduled tasks.
- New and reopened **Issues**, with the exception class; turn on **Include exception messages in issue notifications** for the message too.
- What happened, the reason and a link to the dashboard, never a URL's query string.
- For all projects of a team, or for one project.

## Set it up

1. In Slack, go to **Apps → Incoming Webhooks**, pick the channel and copy the webhook URL. It looks like this:

   ```text
   https://hooks.slack.com/services/…
   ```

2. In Lampwick, click **Alert channels** in the sidebar.
3. Under **Add a channel**, pick **Slack** as the **Kind**, give it a **Name** (such as `#ops`) and paste the **Webhook URL**.
4. Under **Alerts of**, pick **All projects** of a team or one project, and click **Add channel**.
5. On the channel's page, click **Send test message**.

Only team owners add channels; members see them. The URL is stored encrypted and never shown again, only its host.

## Ask your agent

When an alert lands in Slack, paste it into an agent that is [connected to Lampwick](/integrations/mcp/):

```text
Lampwick just alerted in Slack: "Down: Checkout API, HTTP 404 Not Found, 2 failed checks in a row". Look at that monitor and at the issues and error logs of the same project around that time, and tell me the most likely cause.
```

## Next step

The [alerts docs](/docs/alerts/#alert-channels) cover the hourly limits, retries and the **Deliveries** log of each channel.