# Configuring Slack info in elasticsearch.yml file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465 "2017-05-11T18:53:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@sLuvpreet33](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sLuvpreet33)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465/1 "2017-05-11T18:53:43Z")
The options for configuring Slack are not present in the elasticsearch.yml file by default.
Do we have to write them manually OR they are present already ?
Can anyone give a little hint ?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465/2 "2017-05-11T21:18:49Z")
I moved your question to #x-pack as I believe it's related to the alerting feature.
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### Author:  [@sLuvpreet33](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sLuvpreet33)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465/3 "2017-05-12T06:16:40Z")
Thank you. Can you help me here ?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465/4 "2017-05-12T07:13:33Z")
No experience here about this. I can only link to the docs in case you missed it: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.4/actions-slack.html#configuring-slack](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.4/actions-slack.html#configuring-slack)
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465/5 "2017-05-15T21:24:11Z")
Hey,
as you need to supply your own tokens and endpoints as part of the slack configuration, you need to specify this yourself. Please check the link that David posted for further information and come back with any questions (including your configuration as well as the concrete watches).
thanks a lot!
--Alex
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-slack-info-in-elasticsearch-yml-file/85465/6 "2017-06-12T21:39:28Z")
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