New Slack Integration: Customizable Slack Notification Content
H
Henna Abbas
Allow users to configure which details are included in native Slack failure notifications. Teams have different signal-to-noise preferences — some want full context, others want lean, scannable alerts.
Initial fields to consider toggling on/off:
* Commit message
* Branch name
* Triggered-by user
* PR link
Customer evidence:
A beta user with a high-volume monorepo specifically requested the ability to hide commit messages for better information density. This is a broader pattern — teams migrating from legacy Slack integrations have often already tuned their notifications, and customization parity is a key adoption driver.
Expected outcome:
Users can tailor notification content to avoid information overload while ensuring the details most relevant to their workflow are always surfaced — leading to notifications that are actually read and acted on, rather than missed, dismissed or muted.
H
Henna Abbas
Merged in a post:
Customize Slack Notifications
M
Mike@bolt.com
I would like more ability to customize slack notifications.
Ability to include various pieces of information. Perhaps an env vars that can be sent in the slack message. I'm particularly interested in including the build number.
Ability to send a notification to when a job has started with a link to the job. It's annoying to have to navigate from the CC app home to the project and find my build. I would like a link sent in the slack message. Pairing this with request 1 would also be nice, so we can have build number and branch.
Thanks!
CCI-I-956
V
Vinny Thanh
You should be able to accomplish this with the Slack orb: https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/orb/circleci/slack.
B
Brian Ross
Specifically want the ability to filter on specific branches so we can have separate channels per deployed environment (prod, staging) and reduce the noise.
N
Nora Lin
+1
we'd like to customize our message to show what env vars were passed in from the api, option to notify for specific branches
V
Vinny Thanh
+1 to this.
Additionally, it'd be nice to customize other aspects of Slack notifications, such as only notifying of activity for specific branches, for specific users, only on failures, only on successes, etc.