Do you use Slack as part of your DevOps?

With all these different tools being used to collect information in your application, a developer will frequently need to visit many different sites to get information like:

• Was the last build successful?
• What version is in production?
• What errors are being triggered on the app?
• Is the server running slow?
• What is James working on?

This is where a tool like Slack comes in handy. It can help your team aggregate this information from many separate sources into one dedicated channel for your project. The other benefits also include a new team member instantly having access to the full history of the channel as well so no conversations are lost.

You can integrate Slack with:

• Octopus Deploy
• RayGun.io
• TeamCity
• Visual Studio

Even better, you can create bots in slack to manage things like deployments and updating release notes.

✅ Figure: Good example - One centralized location for team chat, deployment issues, exceptions and TFS changes