Event notifications
Botkube sends notifications according to the sources configuration.
Actionable notifications​
If you have kubectl executor enabled for a given channel, you can run commands related to a resource from the notification itself. Use the dropdown on the left to select and run a given command:
The command dropdown is disabled for resource deletion events. It uses executor bindings to determine which commands are available for a given resource.
Actionable notifications are only available for the Slack integration that supports interactive messages. Currently, only a selected list of commands are supported, such as describe, get, or logs.
Notification formats​
Botkube supports two notification formats: short and long. The short format is used by default.
You can change the format by setting the format field in the communication configuration per a given communication platform.
Short format​
Long format​
Managing notifications​
Depending upon your configuration, you will receive notifications about Kubernetes resources lifecycle events and their health. Botkube bot allows you to enable/disable notifications on each configured channel separately. Run @Botkube help, the bot will reply with the help message about the supported message formats.
View Botkube configuration​
Run @Botkube notifier showconfig message from the configured channel where Botkube is added. The bot will reply you with the configuration with which the controller is running.
To see how to update the configuration, see the Updating the configuration section in the Configuration document.
Change notification sources​
To change the notification sources, you can either run the helm upgrade as described in View Botkube configuration or run @Botkube edit SourceBindings.
Depending on the communication platform, the possible options are being printed in response message:
or you are able to pick them from an interactive list:
When you save the new notification sources, changes are applied once the Botkube is restarted. It is an automated process which usually takes a few seconds.
Disable notifications​
If you want to stop receiving notifications from Botkube, run @Botkube notifier stop from the configured channel where Botkube is added. You will no longer receive notifications from the Botkube in a given communication platform.
The notification settings are persisted across Botkube app restarts.
Enable notifications​
If you want to receive Botkube notifications again, run @Botkube notifier start from the configured channel where Botkube is added.
The notification settings are persisted across Botkube app restarts.
For MS Teams integration notifications are disabled by default. You need to turn them on manually using this command.
Check notifier status​
Run @Botkube notifier status to check if notifications are enabled for a given communication platform.
