Slack Notifications
Connect a Slack workspace to your organization and route selected notifications to a shared channel so the whole team sees them in one place.
Send selected notifications to a shared Slack channel so your whole team sees them in one place, instead of relying on individual inboxes. Slack is connected once for the entire organization, not per person.
Open Notification channels in appNote: Connecting Slack and choosing what posts there is an admin task. If you don't see the Notification channels page, ask an admin. Personal email and in-app notifications are set separately on your notification preferences.
Connect Slack
- Open Notification channels.
- Connect your Slack workspace and authorize Ours Privacy.
- Choose the channel where notifications should post.
You connect Slack once for the organization, and your admins choose which notifications post.
Important: The Ours Privacy app must be a member of the channel you choose. For a private channel, add the Ours Privacy app to it in Slack first so it appears in the list.
The connection belongs to the organization, not the person who set it up. It keeps working if that person later leaves the team. You can change the channel or disconnect from the same page at any time.
Choose which notifications post
Slack delivery is set per notification, and every notification starts off. Turn on the ones your team should see in the channel:
- Version published: a new configuration version is published.
- Web scanner findings: a web scan detects new or higher-risk scripts.
- Coverage & risk findings: a scan finds a new high-risk script or an uncovered consent vendor.
- MTU usage warning: the account reaches 95% of its monthly tracked-user limit.
- MTU limit reached: the account has been at or above its monthly tracked-user limit for two consecutive billing months. In beta; contact your account representative to turn it on.
- Funnel metric change: a watched funnel's step conversion moves beyond its expected range.
- Event volume drop: a tracked event stops firing, or falls well below the volume expected for that day of the week. Delivered on weekdays only. In beta; contact your account representative to turn it on.
- Monthly cookie digest: a monthly summary of cookies, trackers, and consent-coverage recommendations.
- Destination delivery stalled: one or more destinations stop delivering events successfully. In beta; contact your account representative to turn it on.
Note: Slack routing is separate from each person's notification preferences. A notification turned on here posts to the channel whatever anyone's email or in-app settings are.
What a Slack post looks like
Posts are intentionally minimal: a one-line summary and a link back into Ours Privacy where the full detail lives. For example:
- Version published: "Version 42 was published by Jordan." with a View version link.
- Web scanner findings: "Web scan of example.com completed with changes from the previous run. 2 high, 5 medium, 1 low risk." with a View scan results link.
Posts carry only summary counts and a link, never your customers' data.
FAQ
Can I use a private channel? Yes. Add the Ours Privacy app to the private channel in Slack first, then choose it during setup.
How often do posts arrive? A post is sent each time the notification happens.
I manage several organizations: can I reuse one Slack workspace? Yes. Connect Slack in each organization separately; you can authorize the same workspace for each and point each organization at its own channel.
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