Send a Slack message

The action identifier is newrelic.notification.sendSlack.

Sends a Slack message to a channel, integrated with destinations.

The following table describes all available input fields for this action.

Input	Type	Description	Example
destinationId	String	Required. DestinationId associated with the New Relic destination. See NerdGraph tutorial: Alerts destinations to configure a destination and retrieve its ID, and Destinations for more information.	`123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000`
text	String	Optional. Text message to send. Provide either `text` or `blocks`, but not both.	`Hello from Workflow Automation`
blocks	List	Optional. JSON array of Slack Block Kit elements. See Supported block types. Provide either `text` or `blocks`, but not both.	`[{"type":"section","text":{"type":"mrkdwn","text":"Hello"}},{"type":"divider"}]`
channel	String	Required. Channel name to send the message to.	`help-nomad`
threadTs	String	Optional. Timestamp of the parent message, used to post a reply in a thread.	`1770206770.789949`
selectors	List	Optional. Selectors to extract specific fields from the output.	`[{"name": "success", "expression": ".success"}]`

Supported block types

The sendSlack action supports only two block types and rejects any others during validation.

Block type	Description	Allowed keys	Example
`section`	The only block type that renders text. The `text` object's `type` must be either `mrkdwn` or `plain_text`, and `text` must be a non-blank string.	`type`, `text`	`{"type":"section","text":{"type":"mrkdwn","text":"Service: checkout-api"}}`
`divider`	Renders a visual horizontal line.	`type`	`{"type":"divider"}`

For more information, see the Slack Block Kit reference and the Slack Block Kit Builder.

The following table describes all output fields returned by this action.

Output	Type	Example
`success`	Boolean	`true/false`
`sessionId`	String	`"sessionId": "7fa97f26-3791-492e-a39b-53793163dfb9"`
`errorMessage`	String	`"Channel is a required field in the notification send"`

Workflow example: text message
`name: slack_notification_workflow description: This is a test workflow to test slack notification send action steps: - name: SendMessageUsingSlackChannel type: action action: newrelic.notification.sendSlack version: 1 inputs: destinationId: xxxx-ed6f-xxxx-bc7d-b7ea982xxxx text: Hi , Testing notifcation api using slack channel name channel: test-channel-workflow`

Workflow example: text message

name: slack_notification_workflow
description: This is a test workflow to test slack notification send action
steps:
  - name: SendMessageUsingSlackChannel
    type: action
    action: newrelic.notification.sendSlack
    version: 1
    inputs:
      destinationId: xxxx-ed6f-xxxx-bc7d-b7ea982xxxx
      text: Hi , Testing notifcation api using slack channel name
      channel: test-channel-workflow

Workflow example: Block Kit blocks
`name: slack_notification_workflow description: This is a test workflow to test slack notification send action steps: - name: sendSlackBlocks type: action action: newrelic.notification.sendSlack version: '1' inputs: destinationId: xxxx-ed6f-xxxx-bc7d-b7ea982xxxx channel: test-channel-workflow blocks: - type: section text: type: mrkdwn text: "Investigation complete" - type: divider - type: section text: type: plain_text text: "All systems normal"`

Workflow example: Block Kit blocks

name: slack_notification_workflow
description: This is a test workflow to test slack notification send action
steps:
  - name: sendSlackBlocks
    type: action
    action: newrelic.notification.sendSlack
    version: '1'
    inputs:
      destinationId: xxxx-ed6f-xxxx-bc7d-b7ea982xxxx
      channel: test-channel-workflow
      blocks:
      - type: section
        text:
          type: mrkdwn
          text: "Investigation complete"
      - type: divider
      - type: section
        text:
          type: plain_text
          text: "All systems normal"

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Supported block types