Slack Notifications
Description
Notify team members of running experiments. The Chaos Engine generates two types of notifications:
- Chaos Experiment Event - generated during experiment lifecycle
- Chaos Message - general notifications
Note
Slack notifications are buffered. The buffer is flushed every minute or when buffer size reaches 20 items.
Chaos Experiment Event Structure
| Field | Description | Example Value |
|---|---|---|
| Header | Event Prefix | Chaos Experiment Event |
| Notification Level | Event severity | ERROR, WARN, GOOD |
| Message | Event description | Starting new experiment |
| Experiment ID | UUID of an experiment | 505ec298-d4c6-4be0-b209-7f4aae78b359 |
| Experiment Method | Experiment implementation | nullRoute.sh |
| Experiment Type | Type of an experiment | state, resource, network |
| Aggregation Identifier | Resource group identifier | nginx (k8s deployment name) |
| Container Type | Type of targeted container | CloudFoundryContainer, KubernetesPodContainer,.. |
| Simple Name | Container simple name | ngnix-hm5d2 (k8s container name) |
Chaos Experiment Event Examples
| ERROR | WARN | GOOD |
|---|---|---|
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Chaos Message Structure
| Field | Description | Example Value |
|---|---|---|
| Header | Event prefix | Chaos Message |
| Message | General notice | Chaos Engine has been started |
Chaos Message Examples
| GOOD | WARN |
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Configuration
Configure a Slack Webhook and provide the URI as an argument.
| Variable | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| slack_webhookuri | Web Hook URI for pushing to Slack. | None |
For more details see webhook creation manual