#39 Slack App shortcuts

To view all your Slack apps: https://api.slack.com/apps. To create a new Slack app: https://api.slack.com/apps?new_app=1.

To create a new Slack app with webhooks, just use the following template:

display_information:
  name: My Alert
  description: Alerts from the My Monitoring System.
  background_color: "#8B0000"
features:
  bot_user:
    display_name: My Alert
    always_online: true
oauth_config:
  scopes:
    bot:
      - incoming-webhook
settings:
  org_deploy_enabled: false
  socket_mode_enabled: false
  token_rotation_enabled: false

More info here:

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