How to monitor your Sails application with Slack.

Monitoring your Sails application has never been easier! In this article I will show you how to setup your Sails application with Slack.

Prerequisites

• Get your Slack webhook from the Slack channel you want to send messages to.

Installation

npm install sails-hook-slack

Usage

To use the Slack hook in your Sails.js application, add the following configuration to your config/slack.js file:

module.exports.slack = {
  webhookUrl: process.env.SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL,
  defaultUsername: process.env.SLACK_DEFAULT_USERNAME,
  defaultIcon: process.env.SLACK_DEFAULT_ICON,
  logLevels: process.env.SLACK_LOG_LEVELS,
};

Configuration

• webhookUrl: Your Slack Webhook Url.
• defaultUsername: The default username for sails to use when sending the message to Slack.
• defaultIcon: The default icon for sails to use when sending the message to Slack.
• logLevels: A comma separated list of log levels to send to Slack.

Bonus

There is a helper function sails.helpers.slack that you can use to send messages to Slack directly without logging the message.

sails.helpers.slack("Hello from Sails!", {
  username: "Sails",
  icon: ":boom:",
});

The username and icon options are optional. If not passed then the default values will be used.

That’s it!

That’s all it takes to monitor your Sails application with slack. See you on the next one.