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Splunk alert to Slack message URL encode something

ryangoodwin
Engager

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

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jgalante
Engager

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

<http://url|your-text>

.

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jgalante
Engager

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

<http://url|your-text>

.

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