Our new plugin lets you push logs to your Slack workplace
We just released a new plugin that may be useful for teams that use Slack. The plugin, Logs2Slack, will publish logs from the Pioreactor to a chosen Slack channel, so you and your team can discuss important events in Slack. Installation is quite easy, too!
1. Setting up your Slack workspace
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You probably want a dedicated channel for incoming logs, as it can get chatty. So go ahead and create a dedicated channel in your Slack workspace. I've called mine
experiment_logs
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In Your Apps, click "Create New App" -> From "Scratch". Give it a name (something descriptive, like
Pioreactor Logs2Slack
), and select the workspace. -
On the next page, select "Incoming Webhooks", and turn "Activate" to
On
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Click "Add new webhook to workspace"
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In the next section, select the channel you made in step 1. Click "Allow".
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On the next page, under "Webhook URL", is your new webhook URL, something like
https://hooks.slack.com/services/ABC.../124...
. Important: this is private, don't share it with untrusted people, don't commit it into Github, etc.
2. Installing this plugin
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In your Pioreactor interface, click on "Plugins". Find
pioreactor-logs2slack
, and click "Install" beside it. This will install the plugin for each Pioreactor in your cluster. -
After installing (should take less than a minute), click on "Configuration". At the bottom of the page will be a section called
[logs2slack]
.
[logs2slack]
slack_webhook_url=
log_level=INFO
Add your webhook URL from step 6. here. Click "Save". You can also change the level of logs to report, see Python logging levels.
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In the "Pioreactors" page, you should see "Logs2Slack" as an activity now. You can start this activity like you would any other activity. Go ahead and start it.
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In your dedicated Slack channel, you should start to see logs arrive!
Check out the source code, too.