Slack

Connect Cardinal to Slack to send AI-generated notifications and alerts to your Slack channels.

Overview

With the Slack integration, the AI agent can:

• Send notifications to specified Slack channels
• Deliver alerts when triggered by monitoring rules or workflows
• Post summaries of incidents, reports, or query results

Capabilities

Configuration

Credentials

Prerequisites

• A Slack workspace where you have permission to install apps
• A Slack app with a Bot Token that has the chat:write scope
• The bot must be invited to any channels where you want it to post

Creating a Slack App

1. Go to api.slack.com/apps 
2. Click Create New App > From scratch
3. Name the app (e.g., “Cardinal Bot”) and select your workspace
4. Navigate to OAuth & Permissions
5. Under Bot Token Scopes, add:
   • chat:write — send messages to channels
   • chat:write.public — (optional) send to channels the bot hasn’t been invited to
6. Click Install to Workspace and authorize the app
7. Copy the Bot User OAuth Token (starts with xoxb-)

Setup

1. Navigate to Settings > Integrations and click Add Integration
2. Select Slack
3. Paste the Bot Token (xoxb-...)
4. Click Test Connection to verify the token is valid
5. Click Save
6. Invite the bot to the desired channels using /invite @Cardinal Bot in Slack

What This Enables

Once configured, the AI agent and automated workflows can send messages to Slack, such as:

• Alert notifications when anomalies are detected
• Incident summaries posted to on-call channels
• Scheduled report digests