Pull content from slack as JSON

Question

I am part of a company slack workspace, we get alerts from all the systems that we have deployed (via various channels). I was looking for a way to extract the information out via json and create a node app to show the alerts as dashboards, so if a service is down for more than 10 minutes it triggers an alert, etc. I want to know if there is a way to do that. Thank you

Answer 1

You can do this by creating a custom app.

Process Flow:

1. Create an app with relevant scopes
2. Subscribe to message event
3. Add your bot to the channels, where alerts are received

You app will listen to the message event & the payload of the event will contain details of message. You can write your business process based on that.

Reading Materials
https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/events-api
https://api.slack.com/tutorials/hello-world-bolt