Elementary can send alerts about:
  • Failures and/or warnings of dbt tests
  • Failures and/or warnings Elementary tests
  • Model runs failures
  • Source freshness failures
You can enrich your alerts by adding properties to tests and models in your .yml files. The supported attributes are: owner, subscribers, description, tags. You can configure and customize your alerts by configuring: Custom channel, suppression interval, alert filters, etc.
Slack alert format

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Enable Slack alerts

On the environments page, select an environment and click connect on the Connect Slack card. After connecting your workspace, you will need to select a default channel for alerts.

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Alerts configuration

Alerts rules

Use Alert Rules to distribute your alerts to the right channels.

Alerts configuration in code

Alert content and properties configuration as code in your project YML files.