Google Chat alert channel

To send alert notifications from Instana to Google Chat in real time, create a Google Chat alert channel.

Creating a Google Chat alert channel

To create a Google Chat alert channel, click Settings > Team Settings > Events & Alerts > Alert Channels > Add Alert Channel in the Instana UI.

Google chat alert channel

Add the Google Chat webhook URL, which you can create in Google Chat by going to the chat room and clicking Configure webhooks > Save.

Incoming webhooks

Alerting examples

After you create the alert channel, alerts for the events are received as an HTTP POST request to the configured Google Chat webhook URLs (HTTP or HTTPS), the address which the alerts will be sent to.

See the following examples:

On open issues or incidents

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On close issues or incidents

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