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# Slack Alerts

Nightfall automatically create a Slack channel to send alerts.

To configure Slack alerts to be received in a Slack channel, 

For Slack DLP,

1. Add Nightfall app to the Slack alert channel.
   1. Go to channel settings > Integrations.
   2. Invite Nightfall application.
2. Go to Settings in the Nightfall console. These settings are available for both Slack Pro and Slack enterprise users.

For non-Slack DLP apps,

1. Add Nightfall Alerts app to the Slack alert channel. 
   1. Go to channel settings > Integrations.
   2. Invite Nightfall Application.
2. Go to Settings in the Nightfall console. These settings are available for both Slack Pro and Slack enterprise users.

* Alert messages for policy violations are sent to #nightfall-alerts-slack channel, which is automatically created by Nightfall.
* For quarantined messages, alerts are sent to the #nightfall-quarantine-slack channel for all quarantined message alerts. The content of the quarantined messages is sent to the #nightfall-content-slack channel.

### Information in Slack Alerts

A Slack alert provides detailed information about a violation as shown in the table below:

<table><thead><tr><th width="208.5">Metadata</th><th></th><th>Information</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Finding</td><td></td><td>Where</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Channel Name</td><td>Name of Slack channel</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Channel Type</td><td>Public, Private, Direct Message</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>When</td><td>Timestamp</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Detection Rules</td><td>Detection rules violated by the message</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Policies Violated</td><td>Nightfall Policies violated by the message</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Who</td><td>Name of the user who violated the policy</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Link to violations dashboard</td><td>Link to the violation in the console</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Finding Snippets</td><td>Original message that violated the policy in redacted format.</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>Remediation actions</td><td>Links to supported remediation actions like notify user, delete, quarantine, redact and acknowledge. </td></tr></tbody></table>