notify/slack: add post_updates_to_thread option to post updates as thread replies - #5540
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SlackNotifier
participant nflog
participant SlackAPI
SlackNotifier->>nflog: Retrieve root thread timestamp and channel ID
SlackNotifier->>SlackAPI: Send initial notification or update root message
SlackAPI-->>SlackNotifier: Return Slack response
SlackNotifier->>SlackAPI: Send subsequent notification with thread_ts
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config/notifiers.go (1)
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APIURLbefore callingString.When
update_message: trueandpost_updates_to_thread: trueare configured withoutapi_url, line 372 panics before line 376 can return the intended validation error. This makes an invalid configuration terminate loading instead of reporting a configuration error.Proposed fix
- if c.UpdateMessage && c.APIURL.String() != "https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage" { + if c.UpdateMessage && (c.APIURL == nil || c.APIURL.String() != "https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage") {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@config/notifiers.go`:
- Line 372: Update the validation condition around UpdateMessage so APIURL is
checked for nil before invoking its String method. Preserve the intended
configuration error path for update_message with post_updates_to_thread enabled
when api_url is absent, while retaining the existing URL comparison for non-nil
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In `@config/notifiers.go`:
- Around line 374-375: Update SlackConfig validation around Validate and
LoadFile so api_url_file is resolved before checking bot-token options. Use the
effective URL from APIURL or APIURLFile, then require the exact
https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage endpoint for UpdateMessage without
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Real-world validationWe built an image from this branch cherry-picked onto v0.34.0 and deployed it on one of our internal Kubernetes clusters (alertmanager managed by the VictoriaMetrics operator, Slack bot-token flow with Test scenario:
Result in Slack (root message updated + 1 threaded reply, ~3 minutes apart): 
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Hey @sebastien-glon-cko, I didn't realize until after I submitted #5577 that you already PR'd this, my bad. Curious what you think of mine though. It's very similar, but mine is a bit more conservative about when a reply actually lands in the thread. Same idea: reuse the nflog store that Main differences: Happy to collapse into one PR if that's cleaner though, would rather land the better behavior. |
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Thanks for reaching out, and no worries at all. I read through #5577 — the core mechanism is identical (parent I have pushed two of your behaviours onto this branch, credited to you:
One thing of yours I deliberately left out: reading On naming I kept Would you be up for closing #5577 and reviewing this one instead? It has been running on one of our clusters since the beginning of the month, and there is a downstream VictoriaMetrics operator PR (VictoriaMetrics/operator#2580) waiting on whichever field name lands here. |
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I think you need to sign your commits to get the actions to run? That's the only difference I can see between mine and yours, they all ran on mine. |
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Post subsequent notifications for an alert group as replies in the thread of the initial Slack message, instead of new channel messages. When combined with update_message, the initial message is updated in place and a reply is also posted to its thread. The root message timestamp and channel are recovered from the nflog receiver data store introduced for update_message, so threading works across restarts and in clustered setups. Fixes prometheus#3221 Signed-off-by: Sébastien GLON <sebastien.glon@checkout.com>
…instead of panicking Validating a Slack configuration with update_message enabled but no api_url set (e.g. when using app_token) dereferenced a nil APIURL and crashed config loading. Return the existing validation error instead, and add a doc comment on Validate. Signed-off-by: Sébastien GLON <sebastien.glon@checkout.com>
… global resolution Checking the endpoint in SlackConfig.Validate rejected valid configurations whose api_url is only known after unmarshalling: api_url provided via api_url_file (read at notification time), via the global slack_api_url, or resolved from an app token. Move the check to global config resolution where the effective URL is known, and accept api_url_file configurations as-is since their content cannot be verified at load time. Signed-off-by: Sébastien GLON <sebastien.glon@checkout.com>
When update_message and post_updates_to_thread are combined, a notification triggered only by repeat_interval elapsing edited the initial message and also posted a full copy of it in the thread. The edited channel message already carries the current state, so the thread reply only added noise on every repeat. Such notifications now only edit the initial message. The notification reason is already available on the context from the dedup stage. When post_updates_to_thread is used without update_message, repeats still post a thread reply, otherwise Slack would receive nothing at all. Behaviour suggested by @cxdy in prometheus#5577. Signed-off-by: Sébastien GLON <sebastien.glon@checkout.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The chat.postMessage requirement of update_message and post_updates_to_thread is validated during config resolution, but an api_url_file cannot be checked there: its content is only read when a notification is sent, so that a rotated value is picked up without a reload. A file holding a hooks.slack.com URL therefore reached the notifier, which sent ts or thread_ts to an incoming webhook that returns no message identifiers, silently doing nothing useful. The resolved URL is now checked once the file has been read, with the same error as config validation. Signed-off-by: Sébastien GLON <sebastien.glon@checkout.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes #3221 (see also #2165)
What this PR does
Adds a new
post_updates_to_threadboolean option toslack_configs. When enabled, subsequent notifications for an alert group (resolved, group changes, repeats) are posted as replies in the thread of the initial Slack message instead of new channel messages.It composes with the existing
update_messageoption (#5115):update_messagepost_updates_to_threadDesign notes
tsand channel id are recovered from the nflog receiver data store introduced by theupdate_messagefeature, so threading survives restarts and works in clustered setups — this addresses the original concern raised in Send subsequent notifications to a slack thread instead of channel #3221 (comment) about state sharing between nodes.tsis preserved (Slack requiresthread_tsto be the root message'sts, not a reply's).update_message, the option requires the bot-token flow (api_url: https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage); incoming webhooks do not support threads. Config validation enforces this.postRequesthelper so the combined mode issues two sequential API calls (chat.updatethenchat.postMessagewiththread_ts). If the thread reply fails with a retriable error, the whole notification is retried; the repeatedchat.updateis idempotent.Testing
postJSONFunc(request URL + payload assertions, nflog store contents).update_messagewebhook-URL test.go test ./notify/slack/... ./config/passes.🤖 Generated with Claude Code