Want to know how much website downtime costs, and the impact it can have on your business?
Find out everything you need to know in our new uptime monitoring whitepaper 2021
We have continued to roll out support for great 3rd party apps and today we are happy to announce StatusCake has put live support for the up and coming real time communication platform – Slack.
Slack is an IRC like environment for your team to be able to communicate with each other, we have seen a surge in users who have requested we added support for it and so continuing with our tradition of you speak we listen we have added two new ways to integrate this great piece of software
Notifications from StatusCake to Slack
You can now set-up StatusCake to send notifications to one or more of your Slack Channels. To get started is easy – follow these easy steps:
Inside Slack:
- In the Slack App menu, scroll down and click the “Customize Slack” option.
- Next click “Configure Apps” to the left.
- In the “Manage” menu, select “Custom Integrations”
- Add a new incoming web hook configuration, if you don’t see this already, you’ll need to create one.
- Choose a channel to which the alerts should be sent.
- Copy the URL with the Token that’s provided.
Inside StatusCake:
- Go to the Integrations section
- Select Slack in the drop down
- Insert your Token URL, and optionally type a channel name to send slack to
- You must add an “Alias” (Name for the integration) – or the integration will not work
- Save and then add this 3rd party service to any contact group of your choice under the “Push Notifications” field
We’ve also added the ability to query your StatusCake accounts key statistics right from inside Slack. No need to go to StatusCake every time you want to see what sites (if any) are down from your account. To get started with this –
Inside StatusCake:
- Go to the Integrations section
- Scroll down and in the Pull Service URLs copy the StatusCake URL for Slack
Inside Slack:
- Go to “Your Account”
- In the Slack App menu, scroll down and click the “Customize Slack” option.
- Next click “Configure Apps” to the left.
- In the “Manage” menu, select “Custom Integrations.
- Add a new outgoing web hook configuration, if you don’t see this already, you’ll need to create one.
- Optionally pick channel (or use “All”)
- Pick your Trigger Word(s), We’d suggest something like “StatusCake”
- Put the URL you copied from StatusCake in the URL(s) box
James Barnes
Share this
More from StatusCake
A Notification List Is Not a Team
3 min read In the previous post, we looked at how alert noise is rarely accidental. It’s usually the result of sensible decisions layered over time, until responsibility becomes diffuse and response slows. One of the most persistent assumptions behind this pattern is simple. If enough people are notified, someone will take responsibility. After more than fourteen years
James Barnes
February 11, 2026
Alert Noise Isn’t an Accident — It’s a Design Decision
3 min read In a previous post, The Incident Checklist: Reducing Cognitive Load When It Matters Most, we explored how incidents stop being purely technical problems and become human ones. These are moments where decision-making under pressure and cognitive load matter more than perfect root cause analysis. When systems don’t support people clearly in those moments, teams compensate.
James Barnes
February 4, 2026
The Incident Checklist: Reducing Cognitive Load When It Matters Most
4 min read In the previous post, we looked at what happens after detection; when incidents stop being purely technical problems and become human ones, with cognitive load as the real constraint. This post assumes that context. The question here is simpler and more practical. What actually helps teams think clearly and act well once things are already
James Barnes
January 28, 2026
When Things Go Wrong, Systems Should Help Humans — Not Fight Them
3 min read In the previous post, we explored how AI accelerates delivery and compresses the time between change and user impact. As velocity increases, knowing that something has gone wrong before users do becomes a critical capability. But detection is only the beginning. Once alerts fire and dashboards light up, humans still have to interpret what’s happening,
James Barnes
January 21, 2026
When AI Speeds Up Change, Knowing First Becomes the Constraint
5 min read In a recent post, I argued that AI doesn’t fix weak engineering processes; rather it amplifies them. Strong review practices, clear ownership, and solid fundamentals still matter just as much when code is AI-assisted as when it’s not. That post sparked a follow-up question in the comments that’s worth sitting with: With AI speeding things
James Barnes
January 14, 2026
Make Your Engineering Processes Resilient. Not Your Opinions About AI
4 min read Why strong reviews, accountability, and monitoring matter more in an AI-assisted world Artificial intelligence has become the latest fault line in software development. For some teams, it’s an obvious productivity multiplier. For others, it’s viewed with suspicion. A source of low-quality code, unreviewable pull requests, and latent production risk. One concern we hear frequently goes
James Barnes
January 8, 2026