[Feature flag] Enable Alert Slack notifications
What
Remove the :alert_slack_event
feature flag.
Removal of this will enable:
- Addition of
Alert
checkbox in Slack Notifications page - Processing of Alert Slack Notifications when an alert comes through
Owners
- Team: Monitor: Health
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_monitor_health
- Best individual to reach out to: Sean Arnold @seanarnold
Expectations
### What are we expecting to happen?
Removal of this will enable:
- Addition of
Alert
checkbox in Slack Notifications page - Processing of Alert Slack Notifications when an alert comes through
What might happen if this goes wrong?
- Slack notifications fail to send when an alert is sent
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
- Manually test Slack Notifications with alerts
- Check logs & Sentry for errors
Beta groups/projects
If applicable, any groups/projects that are happy to have this feature turned on early. Some organizations may wish to test big changes they are interested in with a small subset of users ahead of time for example.
-
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/monitor/tanuki-inc
project
Roll Out Steps
-
Enable on staging -
Test on staging -
Ensure that documentation has been updated -
Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour -
Coordinate a time to enable the flag with #production
and#g_delivery
on slack. -
Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com -
Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production
-
Cross post chatops slack command to #support_gitlab-com
(more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs) and in your team channel -
Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled -
Remove feature flag and add changelog entry -
After the flag removal is deployed, clean up the feature flag by running chatops command in #production
channel
Edited by Sean Arnold