Splunk alert to Slack message URL encode something

ryangoodwin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:03:17 GMT

I would like to clean up the messaging I'm sending to Slack for splunk alerts.

I've tried markdown [text](http://url) which doesn't work and renders the text exactly as displayed here.

I've also tried <text|http://url> which renders verbatim also.

Is there anyway to have slack hide URLs behind text like a normal hyperlink?

My alerts look really awful with huge links back to slack searches and dashboards.

TYIA

Re: Splunk alert to Slack message URL encode something

jgalante — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:08:47 GMT

@ryangoodwin angle brackets will work, but you've got it backwards. It should be

<http://url|your-text>