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[Feature flag] Enable Alert Slack notifications

What

Remove the :alert_slack_event feature flag.

Removal of this will enable:

  • Addition of Alert checkbox in Slack Notifications page
  • Processing of Alert Slack Notifications when an alert comes through

Owners

  • Team: Monitor: Health
  • Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_monitor_health
  • Best individual to reach out to: Sean Arnold @seanarnold

Expectations

### What are we expecting to happen?

Removal of this will enable:

  • Addition of Alert checkbox in Slack Notifications page
  • Processing of Alert Slack Notifications when an alert comes through

What might happen if this goes wrong?

  • Slack notifications fail to send when an alert is sent

What can we monitor to detect problems with this?

  • Manually test Slack Notifications with alerts
  • Check logs & Sentry for errors

Beta groups/projects

If applicable, any groups/projects that are happy to have this feature turned on early. Some organizations may wish to test big changes they are interested in with a small subset of users ahead of time for example.

  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/monitor/tanuki-inc project

Roll Out Steps

  • Enable on staging
  • Test on staging
  • Ensure that documentation has been updated
  • Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour
  • Coordinate a time to enable the flag with #production and #g_delivery on slack.
  • Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com
  • Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production
  • Cross post chatops slack command to #support_gitlab-com (more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs) and in your team channel
  • Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled
  • Remove feature flag and add changelog entry
  • After the flag removal is deployed, clean up the feature flag by running chatops command in #production channel
Edited by Sean Arnold