Need Looker Alert to tag Slack User in a specific channel when message is generated

[dimitribenchev]

Hello members, I am aware that Looker can send alert messages in a Slack Channel or to a specific Slack User. However, I am interested to merge the 2, so that I can still send it in a specific Slack channel but also tag specific people in the message (perhaps based on Tag or Slack User ID).

Is this doable and if so, how?

## Solution ##

After some testing and experimentation, I discovered the way , basically in the alert title you add something like "<@UserSlackID>"

[sam8]

Interesting idea! I don't think this is possible, as I'm pretty sure that Slack treats the alert messages as plaintext. But you could try using the Slack @-mentioning syntax with a valid username and see if it generates a ping to that user!

[dimitribenchev · Accepted solution]

After some testing and experimentation, I discovered the way , basically in the alert title you add something like "<@UserSlackID>"

[sam8]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing!