# Customize the name in slack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163 "2018-02-23T04:45:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Pororo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pororo/32/27711_2.png) [@Pororo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pororo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163/1 "2018-02-23T04:45:18Z")

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Hi,  
I was trying to customize the name of the alerting provider in slack. And I completed the settings in slack incoming webhooks. But when I actually tested the alerting function, the name was not changed as what I customized.

 ![08](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/a/ea629ce5916503c0631968b7f4503404397bc46a.jpg)  
 ![54](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/7/f7ea0bd03ecf974d29a35bfd6d5a5b17a7afae0f.png)

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**Author:** ![Pororo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pororo/32/27711_2.png) [@Pororo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pororo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163/2 "2018-02-23T04:46:52Z")

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In the second pic, we can see the slack already recognized it by"added an integration to this channel : Watcher". But the name is just not changed at all in the actual parts below.

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163/3 "2018-02-23T08:54:51Z")

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which name are you referring to exactly? The message can contain a `from` field which should allow you to changet his. Can you share your watch as well?

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**Author:** ![Pororo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pororo/32/27711_2.png) [@Pororo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pororo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163/4 "2018-02-23T17:57:29Z")

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![55](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/0/9084e794aa29f7e604de47e76824065d5c8f04bc.png)

 ![30](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/b/4b900ea8b3a2a2d357bda84e4764e726d62a41d5.png)

I did not see the option for "from".

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**Author:** ![Pororo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pororo/32/27711_2.png) [@Pororo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pororo)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163/5 "2018-02-24T00:02:05Z")

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I am not sure if I need to create the watcher by the console like putting code block in or just use the watcher interface to do the settings. Cuz as far as I see, the watcher interface could not provide us such detailed fields to customize.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-name-in-slack/121163/6 "2018-03-24T00:02:06Z")

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