# Slack Integration — ZopNight Alerts Where Your Team Already Works

> Send ZopNight schedules, budget alerts, cost anomalies and remediation updates to any Slack channel, with interactive action buttons.

Source: https://zop.dev/integrations/slack
Updated: 2026-08-20

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## Common questions

### What Slack scopes does ZopNight need?

Two bot scopes: chat:write and chat:write.public. The second covers public channels. For a private channel, invite the bot to it.

### Which values do I paste into ZopNight?

Three. The Bot User OAuth Token, which starts xoxb-, the target channel ID from View channel details, and the Signing Secret from Basic Information. All three are required, and ZopNight verifies them live with auth.test plus a channel lookup when you save.

### Can an engineer act on an alert without leaving Slack?

Yes. Slack is the only channel with interactive action buttons, which are signature-verified and rate-limited, so an on-call engineer can respond in the thread instead of switching tools.

Connect Slack once and every ZopNight event your team cares about lands in the channel of your choice as a rich, readable card: resources stopped and started, budgets crossing thresholds, cost anomalies, remediation approvals, report exports. Slack is ZopNight's most capable channel: cards include interactive action buttons, so on-call engineers can respond without leaving the thread.

## Two bot scopes, cards, and live credential checks

ZopNight uses a Slack app you create in your workspace with two bot scopes (chat:write and chat:write.public). Messages are delivered as Block Kit cards with a title, facts, severity and a deep link back to ZopNight. Every channel gets a per-channel subscription matrix: pick exactly which event types it receives, scoped org-wide or to specific cloud accounts, resource groups, resources or teams. Credentials are verified live at setup (auth.test plus a channel lookup) so misconfigurations surface immediately, and a test-send button confirms end-to-end delivery.

## Six steps from a new Slack app to a test message

1. Create a Slack app (api.slack.com/apps > Create New App > From scratch).
2. Under OAuth & Permissions, add bot scopes chat:write and chat:write.public, then Install to Workspace.
3. Copy the Bot User OAuth Token (starts xoxb-).
4. Right-click your target channel > View channel details > copy the Channel ID.
5. From Basic Information > App Credentials, copy the Signing Secret.
6. In ZopNight: Settings > Notifications > Add Channel > Slack; paste all three values and send a test notification.

## Interactive buttons and per-event subscriptions

All ZopNight event families with per-event, per-scope subscriptions. Severity-aware formatting (info, warning, critical). Interactive action buttons (signature-verified, rate-limited). Recommendation sharing to any Slack channel. Live credential validation and test sends.