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title: "Alerts in Slack and Discord"
url: https://wpforeman.com/docs/slack-discord/
description: "Send downtime, failed backups, new admins and other alerts to Slack or Discord channels, with different alerts for each channel."
updated: 2026-10-31
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# Alerts in Slack and Discord

WP Foreman can post alerts to your team’s Slack or Discord. Add as many channels as you like. Each one gets the alerts you pick, for all your sites or for one client’s sites. For example, downtime and failed backups to **#ops**, new administrators to **#security**, and everything about Acme to the channel you share with Acme.

## Get a Slack webhook

1. Go to [api.slack.com/apps](https://api.slack.com/apps), click **Create New App** › **From scratch**, name it (for example “WP Foreman”) and pick your workspace.
2. Open **Incoming Webhooks**, switch it on, and click **Add New Webhook to Workspace**.
3. Pick the channel and click **Allow**. Copy the webhook URL (it starts with `https://hooks.slack.com/services/`).

Each webhook posts to one channel. For another channel, click **Add New Webhook to Workspace** again.

## Get a Discord webhook

1. In Discord, open the channel’s settings (the cog next to its name) › **Integrations** › **Webhooks**.
2. Click **New Webhook**, give it a name, then **Copy Webhook URL** (it starts with `https://discord.com/api/webhooks/`).

You need the **Manage Webhooks** permission on the server.

## Add it to WP Foreman

1. Go to **Settings › Notifications** and click **Add a Slack or Discord channel**.
2. Paste the webhook URL and give the channel a name you’ll recognise.
3. Choose **All sites** or one client’s sites.
4. Tick the alerts this channel should get. The usual ones are ticked to start with.
5. Click **Add and send a test**. A “WP Foreman is connected” message shows up in the channel within a few seconds.

To change a channel’s alerts or sites later, click **Choose alerts** next to it. The paper plane sends another test; pause and remove are next to it. Only the account owner can add or change channels.

## The alerts

- **Downtime:** a site goes down (confirmed from more than one location), comes back up, or an SSL certificate or domain is about to expire.
- **Backups and updates:** a backup fails, an update fails or only partly works.
- **Changes outside WP Foreman:** a new administrator, a plugin installed, deleted or switched off, WordPress updated by hand, or any change at all.
- **Site health:** a site disconnects, a known security issue is found, mobile speed drops, a visual check finds pages that look different, the site’s emails stop sending or arriving.
- **Forms:** a form test fails, or a failing form works again.
- **Your team:** someone [logs hands-on work](https://wpforeman.com/docs/hands-on-work/); the morning report (sent on the account owner’s report schedule, to channels set to all sites).

Each message names the site (and its client), says what happened, includes the error when there is one, and links to the site’s log. Messages use your agency name from **Settings › Branding** when you’ve set one. They never mention `@everyone` or `@here`.

## If messages stop

If Slack or Discord says the webhook was deleted or revoked, or it keeps failing, WP Foreman switches the channel off and shows why on **Settings › Notifications**. Fix or replace the webhook, then click the play button to switch it back on.

Emails and push notifications are set separately on the same page, so a channel doesn’t change what you get by email. For alerts that also do something (take a backup, email the client), use a [rule](https://wpforeman.com/docs/how-rules-work/).

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