Feature Request - Option of Slack Username

[vikas027]

It would be good to have an option to define SLACK_USERNAME in order override the default username incoming-webhook

[whs]

You can configure the username from Slack's incoming webhook configuration. Is there any use case missing from this?

If you're on the free tier, each instances of incoming webhook are not counted as separate integrations.

[vikas027]

Hey @whs ,

Yeah, I can do the same using on the Slack UI. But it would be useful to the know the source of the alerts if I want to use the same channel for alerts from various applications

This is my use case

• Slack Channel Name - k8s-alerts
• GitLab alerts are thru name gitlab
• Grafana alerts are thru name grafana
• Similarly, I want a customized name for kube-slack

I hope the use case is clear now.

Cheers, Vikas

[whs]

You can create 3 incoming webhooks that point to the same channels with different name. That's what we're using as well.

[vikas027]

Yes, but IMHO that is a work around and then has limits. It would still be convenient to have variable SLACK_USERNAME so that we don't need to have multiple hooks, and just one hook is sufficient for all alerts. I have plans to have more services alerting to the same channel.

[whs]

I'm sorry but adding this feature which has equivalent option available would cause additional maintenance work on our part.

[vikas027]

It is up to you, equivalent options are not really equivalent when you have multiple applications pointing to the same channel.