Slack App for Splunk

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Seamlessly monitor your team's Slack activity with the Slack App for Splunk! By leveraging Slack App’s modular inputs, messages generated in your public Slack channels are collected and indexed into Splunk, ready for reporting.

The Slack App for Splunk also provides prebuilt dashboards for Slack monitoring. Effortlessly track metrics including: where and how often your users are logging in, and storage usage by team member with ready-to-use dashboards.

In the details tab, you can learn how to generate a Slack token for Splunk.

Full documentation can be found in the README file within the app.

Features:
Native Splunk Modular Inputs
- Access key user and message data from Slack’s Web API.
- Index Slack metrics into Splunk for fast searching and reporting.

Gain Visibility into User Activity
- Report when and where your team members login.
- Discover the most frequent users and their device usage.

Explore Messaging Metrics
- Assess message volume trends over time.
- Examine which users are utilizing the most storage.

How to Generate a Slack Token for Splunk

On May 5, 2020 Slack announced that developers and users will no longer be able to create legacy tester tokens. Existing tokens will continue functioning as long as they are in use.

Follow these steps to generate a Slack token for use in Splunk with the Slack App for Splunk Add-on:

Create a new Slack App with the following scopes:

Install the App to your workspace.
Copy the token from the App and use that in Splunk.

Watch the 3-minute tutorial

We hope this helps! If you have any questions or suggestions please don't hesitate to contact our development team at support@function1.com.

Thank you for being a part of the Slack App community.

Release Notes

Version 1.2.3

July 2, 2020

Minor dashboard updates for version and cloud compatibility.

Version 1.2.2

April 14, 2020

Version 1.2.2 includes the following changes:
- Dashboard Search Performance Improvements

Version 1.2.1

April 12, 2020

Version 1.2.1 includes the following changes:

Python 3 Compatibility
Updating of Slack Libraries
Updating Message Attachment Panels for new Slack API

Version 1.2.0

April 12, 2020

Version 1.2.0 includes the following changes:

Python 3 Compatibility
Updating of Slack Libraries
Updating Message Attachment Panels for new Slack API

Version 1.0.0

Sept. 18, 2018

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