SlackAlertClient

class gafaelfawr.slack.SlackAlertClient(hook_url, application, logger)

Bases: object

Publish alerts to Slack.

Use an incoming webhook to publish an alert to a Slack channel.

Parameters:

• hook_url (str) – The URL of the incoming webhook to use to publish the message.

• application (str) – Name of the application reporting an error.

• logger (BoundLogger) – Logger to which to report errors sending messages to Slack.

Methods Summary

message(message)	Post a Markdown message to Slack.
uncaught_exception(exc)	Post an alert to Slack about an uncaught webapp exception.

Methods Documentation

async message(message)

Post a Markdown message to Slack.

Slack limits the main section of the message to 3000 characters. It will be truncated if longer than that.

Parameters:

message (str) – The message to post, in Markdown format.

Return type:

None

async uncaught_exception(exc)

Post an alert to Slack about an uncaught webapp exception.

Parameters:

exc (Exception) – The exception to report.

Return type:

None