diff --git a/docs/sources/escalation-chains-and-routes/_index.md b/docs/sources/escalation-chains-and-routes/_index.md index 2c9a255f..036ea6d0 100644 --- a/docs/sources/escalation-chains-and-routes/_index.md +++ b/docs/sources/escalation-chains-and-routes/_index.md @@ -56,9 +56,8 @@ need a larger time interval, use multiple wait steps in a row. from an on-call schedule. * `Resolve incident automatically` - resolve the alert group right now with status `Resolved automatically`. -* `Notify whole slack channel` - send a notification to a slack channel (not recommended -to use as it will spam the channel). -* `Notify Slack User Group` - send a notification to a slack user group. +* `Notify whole slack channel` - send a notification to the users in the slack channel. +* `Notify Slack User Group` - send a notification to each member of a slack user group. * `Trigger outgoing webhook` - trigger an [outgoing webhook][outgoing-webhooks]. * `Notify users one by one (round robin)` - each notification will be sent to a group of users one by one, in sequential order in [round robin fashion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_item_allocation). @@ -69,6 +68,14 @@ Useful when you want to get escalation only during working hours passes some threshold * `Repeat escalation from beginning (5 times max)` - loop the escalation chain +> **Note:** Both "**Notify whole Slack channel**" and "**Notify Slack User Group**" will filter OnCall registered users +matching the users in the Slack channel or Slack User Group with their profiles linked to their Slack accounts (ie. users +should have linked their Slack and OnCall users). In both cases, the filtered users satisfying the criteria above are +notified following their respective notification policies. However, to avoid **spamming** the Slack channel/thread, +users **won't be notified** in the alert group Slack **thread** (this is how the feature is currently implemented) +but instead notify them using their **other defined** options in +their [respective policies]([url](https://grafana.com/docs/oncall/latest/notify/#configure-user-notification-policies)). + ### Notification types Each escalation step that notifies a user, does so by triggering their personal notification steps. These are configured in the Grafana diff --git a/helm/oncall/Chart.yaml b/helm/oncall/Chart.yaml index ed4d6ec6..12eb4b2d 100644 --- a/helm/oncall/Chart.yaml +++ b/helm/oncall/Chart.yaml @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ apiVersion: v2 name: oncall description: Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration type: application -version: 1.3.50 -appVersion: v1.3.50 +version: 1.3.55 +appVersion: v1.3.55 dependencies: - name: cert-manager version: v1.8.0