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Integration for Slack

The Cypress integration for Slack allows you to see your Cypress test results directly in your teams' Slack channels.

Cypress notification feed in Slack channel

Install the Cypress integration for Slack​

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Ownership Requirements

In order to install the Cypress integration for Slack, you must be an admin or owner of both your Cypress Cloud organization and your Slack workspace.

To install the Cypress integration for Slack:

  1. Go to Cypress Cloud Organizations page or open the organization switcher.

  2. Select the organization you wish to integrate with Slack.

    Select an organization

  3. Visit the selected organization's Integrations page via the side navigation.

    Install Cypress Slack from Integrations

  4. Click the Enable button in the Slack section.

    Click enable under Slack Integration

  5. You'll see a popup window that requests permission for Cypress to access the workspace and allows you to choose your Slack workspace and channel to associate with the installation. Once you've selected a channel and allowed access, the installation is complete! Cypress Cloud will post run results for all projects in your organization to the specified Slack channel.

For more information about how the Cypress integration for Slack collects and manages your information, please visit our Privacy Policy.

Per-organization configuration​

Add additional Slack channels​

You can have Cypress Cloud post run results to an additional channels. To add a channel:

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the organization with the installed integration.
  2. Within the Slack integration, click Configure.
  3. Click Add Slack Channel.
  4. You'll see a popup window that allows you to choose the channel to associate with the organization. Cypress Cloud will post run results for all projects in your organization to the new Slack channel.

Set notification preferences​

By default, Cypress Cloud will post a Slack message to each configured channel only for failing runs. If you'd like to change these preferences:

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the organization with the installed integration.
  2. Within the Slack integration, click Configure.
  3. Under Notifications, select your preference for each Slack channel:
  • Failed runs: will notify on runs with a failed status.
  • Passed runs: will notify on runs with a passed status.
  • Flaky tests: will notify on runs that have an identified flaky test.

Mute a channel​

If you want Cypress Cloud to temporarily stop posting Slack messages to a certain channel, you can Mute that channel. This allows you to easily pause and resume notifications for a specific channel without losing the configuration you've put in place.

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the organization with the installed integration.
  2. Within the Cypress integration for Slack, click Configure.
  3. Under Actions, select your Mute for each Slack channel you want muted.

Remove a Slack channel​

You can have Cypress Cloud stop posting notifications to a channel. You can remove all Slack channels if you'd prefer to disable global notifications altogether in favor of per-project notifications.

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the organization with the installed integration.
  2. Within the Cypress integration for Slack, click Configure.
  3. Under Actions, select your Delete for each Slack channel you want deleted.

Per-project configuration​

If your organization has multiple teams working on separate projects, you can tailor the Slack notifications of each project to match your teams' needs.

Add a new Slack channel​

You can have Cypress Cloud post run results for a specific project to an additional channel.

  1. Select your organization in the organization switcher.
    Select an organization
  2. Select the project you wish to integrate with Slack.
    Select a project
  3. Go to the project's settings page.
    Visit project settings
  4. Scroll down to the Slack Integration section.
  5. Click Add Slack Channel.
  6. You'll see a popup window that allows you to choose the channel to associate with the project.

Set notification preferences​

By default, Cypress Cloud will post a Slack message to each configured channel only for failing runs.

If you'd like to change these preferences:

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the project with the installed integration.
  2. Scroll down to the Slack Integration section.
  3. Under Notifications, select your preference for each Slack channel:
  • Failed runs: will notify on runs with a failed status.
  • Passed runs: will notify on runs with a passed status.
  • Flaky tests: will notify on runs that have an identified flaky test.
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You cannot override the notification preferences for globally configured Slack integrations.

Filter notifications by tag​

You can filter notifications posted to Slack based on a tag the run was recorded with. This can be helpful to only post notifications on certain runs, like those to a staging or release environment.

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the project with the installed integration.
  2. Scroll down to the Slack Integration section.
  3. Under Tags, select the Tag dropdown for the desired integration and select which tag to filter.
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Filtering by tags is only available on integrations configured at the project level.

Mute a channel​

If you want Cypress Cloud to temporarily stop posting Slack messages to a certain channel, you can Mute that channel. This allows you to easily pause and resume notifications for a specific channel without losing the configuration you've put in place. You can even mute the messages for the global organization channels!

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the project with the installed integration.
  2. Scroll down to the Slack Integration section.
  3. Under Actions, select your Mute for each Slack channel you want muted.

Remove a channel​

You can have Cypress Cloud stop posting notifications to a channel. You cannot delete the global notification channels from a project.

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the project with the installed integration.
  2. Scroll down to the Slack Integration section.
  3. Under Actions, select your Delete for each Slack channel you want deleted.

Remove the integration​

You can completely remove the Cypress integration for Slack from your workspace. This will remove the @cypress bot from your workspace and will delete all of the Slack configurations you've set in Cypress Cloud. You cannot undo this, but you will be able to install the Cypress integration for Slack again in the future.

  1. Navigate to the Integrations page for the organization with the installed integration.
  2. Within the Slack Integration, click Configure.
  3. Click Uninstall Slack Integration to uninstall the Cypress integration for Slack.

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