Send alerts directly to email addresses
Setting Up Email
- Go to Dashboard Settings → Notifications
- Click "Add Email Channel"
- Enter email address and verify
- Configure alert types to receive
Pro Tip: Add multiple email addresses to notify different team members for different alert types
Post alerts to Slack channels
Connecting Slack
- Navigate to Notifications in Dashboard
- Click "Add to Slack" button
- Authorize SEER in your workspace
- Select channels to post alerts
Slack Features
- Rich formatted messages with status colors
- Direct links to pipeline details
- Channel-specific routing
- Thread support for related alerts
Send alerts to custom webhook endpoints
Webhook Setup
- Create a webhook endpoint in your system
- Add webhook URL in SEER dashboard
- Configure authentication headers
- Test the webhook connection
Webhook Payload
{
"event": "pipeline_failed",
"pipeline_id": "uuid",
"pipeline_name": "ETL Pipeline",
"status": "failed",
"timestamp": "2025-11-27T10:30:00Z",
"error_message": "Connection timeout",
"dashboard_url": "https://seer.ansrstudio.com/..."
}Best practices for managing notification channels
Recommended Setup
- Critical alerts: Email + Slack to on-call channel
- Warnings: Slack to monitoring channel
- Success notifications: Email digest (optional)
- Custom integrations: Webhooks to PagerDuty, Opsgenie, etc.
Note: Configure notification throttling to avoid alert fatigue during repeated failures