# Elastic integration with slack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-integration-with-slack/357857>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 21, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-integration-with-slack/357857 "2024-04-21T13:14:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yashar.ansari76](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yashar.ansari76/32/131835_2.png) [@yashar.ansari76](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashar.ansari76)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-integration-with-slack/357857/1 "2024-04-21T13:14:16Z")

</div>

Hi everyone  
I have installed Elasticsearch with Kibana and fluentd.  
now I want to send my logs to slack and I follow this doc ([Watcher Slack Action | Elasticsearch Guide [8.13] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/actions-slack.html)).  
when I add

```auto
"actions" : {
  "notify-slack" : {
    "transform" : { ... },
    "throttle_period" : "5m",
    "slack" : {
      "message" : {
        "to" : ["#admins", "@chief-admin"], 
        "text" : "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors in the last 5 minutes (facepalm)" 
      }
    }
  }
}

```

my container could not run.  
the error log is:

```auto
unknown setting [actions.notify-slack.slack.message.text] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.13.1

```

Thnks for your help.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-integration-with-slack/357857/2 "2024-04-21T13:32:24Z")

</div>

Which version of Elasticsearch are you using?

Which license type are you using?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yashar.ansari76](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yashar.ansari76/32/131835_2.png) [@yashar.ansari76](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yashar.ansari76)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-integration-with-slack/357857/3 "2024-04-21T15:44:44Z")

</div>

@Christian_Dahlqvist  
Thanks for your response.  
my elastic version is 8 and I use opensource version

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-integration-with-slack/357857/4 "2024-04-21T16:45:14Z")

</div>

> [@yashar.ansari76](#):
>
> my elastic version is 8 and I use opensource version

You mean the basic license, right? There is no Opensource version of Elastiscsearch anymore, the last one was 7.10, after that the license changed and you have.

Watcher needs a license, it does not work with the Basic (free) license, you need to have a paid license for it to work.