Authorize Slack in Incident Response

Select a Slack channel and authorize the channel to collaborate with team members.

Before you begin

Note:

If you do not use the same email address for Slack and Lightstep Incident Response (LIR), then you must create a secondary email address in your LIR Profile, under Contact Methods, for the email address that you want to use for Slack.

Role required: Responder, Manager, or Administrator

Procedure

  1. Log in to Lightstep Incident Response.
  2. On the navigation pane, select Integrations.
    Collaboration integrations.
  3. Click the Slack integration card.
    The Slack integration page appears.
    Slack integration page.
  4. Click Authorize.
    The workspace page appears.
  5. Select your workspace.
    The workspace page appears.
    Select your workspace.
  6. Enter the credentials for workspace and click Continue.
    Note: If you created a secondary email address in your Profile, you can use those credentials instead of your primary email address to authorize.
  7. Select the channel name that you want to use to communicate.
    Select the channel that you want to use to communicate.
  8. Click Allow.

    Slack is now integrated with Incident Response.

    Any issues found during authorization, even when it succeeds, are listed here.

    Slack is integrated with Incident Response

What to do next

In Slack, navigate to your workspace and try out our Slack commands to collaborate with team members. See Slack commands to work with Incident Response for the list of built-in commands.