Alerting

Alerts: Webhook Trigger Action and Slack Incoming WebHooks Custom Integration

dwspncr
Explorer

I have an Alert that successfully creates an entry in Trigger History via the "Add to Triggered Alerts" Trigger Action; however, the Webhook Trigger Action for the same Alert does not appear to fire.

The webhook URL (of the form https://hooks.slack.com/services/#########/#########/########################) is generated by Slack's Incoming WebHooks Custom Integration, and making a curl request to it is successful.

Any suggestions on how to debug this are appreciated.

dwspncr
Explorer

Using the Slack Webhook Alert add-on, as @aaraneta mentions, works.

I'm still not entirely satisfied, though, as all the documentation that I've read seem to indicate that "standard" webhooks should work.

chadwell
Explorer

I'm hoping someone can answer this.

Using the provided 'webhook' functionality (without any additional apps etc) - how can we POST to a slack web hook.

I can use Postman on my laptop to post to the slack channel without issue. But when the splunk alert is triggered the webhook seems to do nothing.

Any ideas?>

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known_user
Engager

How can we integrate without having to configure anything at the splunk enterprise level?

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aaraneta_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

@dwspncr - Are you using the Slack Webhook Alert add-on in Splunkbase? Or a different Slack related app/add-on in Splunkbase? I just want to make sure your post is tagged appropriately for best visibility. Thank you.

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dwspncr
Explorer

No add-ons. I was hoping to get it to work using a plain webhook post to Slack.

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