slackreceiver

Slack Receiver

The Slack receiver is designed to retrieve Slack message statistical data from a single Slack workspace: it generates metrics from the channel messages in the workspace.

Prerequisites

This collector receiver works as a Slack application, so you need to prepare the token in advance. Especially, because this only works in the socket mode, you need both a bot token and an app token.

Configuration

The following settings are required:

• bot_token: Slack Bot token for a workspace.
• app_token: Slack App token for a workspace.
• server_wide (default = false): If it is true, the receiver collects statistics from all channels in the server. If it is false, the receiver collects statistics per channel.
• buffer_interval (default = "30s"): Interval period to buffer Slack messages to collect metrics. Valid units are the ones supported by time.ParseDuration.

The following settings are optional:

• channels (dafault = ""): The list of channels to collect statistics from. If it is blank, all channels are collected. This setting is ignored if server_wide is true.

Example:

receivers:
  slack:
    bot_token: <YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>
    app_token: <YOUR_APP_TOKEN>
    server_wide: false
    buffer_interval: "1m"
    channels:
      - "general"
      - "random"