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Summary​

Slack is a way to communicate with your team. By integrating with Cortex's Slack app, you can use Slash Commands to drive insights into values such as:

  • Ownership
  • Notifications
  • Who's on call

Also with the integration, Cortex will message service owners regarding any Scorecard improvements or if are any action items for upcoming Initiatives.

Setup​

In order to connect Cortex to your Slack instance, you’ll need to install Cortex's Slack app in Settings → Slack.

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If you do not see the Settings page you're looking for in the sidebar, you likely don't have the proper permissions and need to contact your admin.

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If using Cortex Server, you'll need to follow a manual configuration process to use Cortex's Slack app. Reach out to the support team to receive instructions.

Catalog Descriptor​

Ownership​

You can define the following block in your Cortex Catalog Descriptor to add your Slack channels.

x-cortex-owners:
  # List Slack channels, *without* the preceeding "#"
  - type: slack
    channel: team-engineering
    notificationsEnabled: true #optional
    description: This is a description for this Slack channel # optional

Slash Commands​

We have a list of commands you can use to quickly query catalog metadata and Scorecard scores. The <tag> refers to the entity tag.

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You need to be a Slack administrator in order to install Cortex's Slack app.

  • /cortex service <tag>
    • Lists entity information such as owners, current on-call, links, and timeline events
  • /cortex runbooks <tag>
  • /cortex docs <tag>
  • /cortex logs <tag>
  • /cortex links <tag>
  • /cortex links [type] <tag>
    • List all links of optional type param such as "metrics" or "openapi"
  • /cortex oncall <tag>
    • Find current on-call
  • /cortex owners <tag>
    • List all owners, along with their emails
  • /cortex dependencies <tag>
    • List all incoming and outgoing first-level dependencies
  • /cortex scores <tag>
    • List all Scorecard scores
  • /cortex sentry <tag>
  • /cortex timeline <tag>
    • List recent timeline events
  • /cortex search <query>

Privacy Policy​

We will retain basic Slack metadata like user IDs for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in our Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, or where the Customer Agreement requires or permits specific retention or deletion periods.