README.md

Insights Slackbot

Simple Slack Bot that posts updates about systems monitored by Red Hat Insights to a Slack channel.

Running

1. Get a Slack token for the Bot
2. Run Insights Slackbot

   SLACK_TOKEN='<put token here>' npm start
   

   The server needs to be accessible from the Internet. Alternatively, use ultrahook to route webhooks to your local machine.
3. Configure a webhook in Insights

Configuration

The following environment variables can be used to tune Insights Slackbot:

• SLACK_TOKEN - token for authentication
• SLACK_CHANNEL - Slack channel the bot will post messages to (insights-webhooks by default)
• SERVER_SECRET- secret part of the URL that prevents unauthorized actors from posting
• SERVER_PORT - server port (3006 by default)