Elasticsearch watcher - x-pack - markdown in slack notification

[brijesh_amin]

I am trying to get make user and channels links to work in slack notifications on elasticsearch/x-pack. I have tried using "markdwn": true and ""

  "actions": {
    "notify-slack": {
      "slack": {
        "message": {
          "mrkdwn": true,
          "to": "@brijesh",
          "text": "<!U0FMK07QC|brijesh> errors on test module",
          "dynamic_attachments": {
            "list_path": "ctx.payload.hits.hits",
            "attachment_template": {
              "title": "Error on {{_source.environment}} v{{_source.version}}",
              "text": "{{_source.message}}"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

I noticed such implementation being discussed here,

Markdown in Watcher Slack Action attachements

Hello, I'm configuring my X-Pack to send me Slack messages when I log an error in ES. The trick is I'd like to have the stacktrace formatted as a code block so I tried this "notify_slack": { "slack": { "message": { "to": "@me", "text": "Proxy monitoring", "attachments" : [ { "mrkdwn_in": ["text"], "title" : "Errors Found", "text" : "Encountered {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} errors in the last minute…

I wonder is this feature still not available in x-pack? Any workaround to make this work?

What I want to achieve is to be able to link users and channels mentioned in slack message to be linked and not just display as normal text.

[spinscale (Alexander Reelsen)]

It is not yet available. Do you need the mrkdwn: true field or would the mrkdwn_in field be sufficient for your usecase as well? Just to make sure this works when expected, when taking a stab at it.

happy to get any feedback!

[brijesh_amin]

Hi Spinscale,

I think mrkdwn_in should do the job for now. However, having both of them would be really useful.

Thanks,
Brijesh