Slack Account Permissions
Permissions RequiredYou must be an Owner or Admin user in order to install Slack on your Rootly organization account.You must also have admin rights to your Slack account.
- app_mentions:read: View messages that directly mention @rootly in conversations that the app is in.
- commands: Add /rootly and /incident Slack shortcuts.
- channels:manage: So we can create a public dedicated Slack channel.
- channels:read: View basic information about public channels in a workspace.
- groups:read: View basic information about private channels that Rootly has been added to.
- groups:write: So we can create a private Slack channel for sensitive data ( eg: security ).
- chat:write + chat:write.public: So we can write a beautiful welcome message in your dedicated incident Slack channel and respond to different actions.
- files:read: So when you pin or react to a message in Slack, we can also save the file assocciated in Rootly timeline.
- files:write: So our genius workflows can upload some files (console output) directly in Slack. We will never delete files in your Slack workspace.
- pins:read: So we can add Slack message to your incident timeline through pinning.
- reactions:read: So we can add Slack message to your incident timeline through a reaction of your choice.
- reactions:write: So we can react to your message when we successfully added it to your incident timeline.
- users.profile:read: So we can turn your Slack internal username to something more human (Firstname + Lastname)
- usergroups:read: View user groups in a workspace (Aliases so you can invite @security people directly for example).
- users:read + users:read.email: View email addresses of people in a workspace so you can invite them with one click. We will never invite them in your behalf
Installing Slack on Rootly
Locate Slack on on the Integrations catalogue and selectSetup
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Installing Slack Enterprise Grid on Rootly
You will need to be a Slack Workspace Owner to complete the setup.