Set up alert channels

A delivery channel is a place where Pastmark Pro sends alerts. For example, an email to your admins, or a Slack channel. You set up a channel once. Then you can use it in many alert rules.

Go to User Activity → Settings → Alerts → Delivery Channels.

Pastmark Pro creates one channel for you: Administrators (Email). It emails every user with the Administrator role.

Add an email channel #

1. Click Add Channel.
2. Type a Channel Name, for example Site owners.
3. Under Type, keep Email.
4. Choose who gets the email. You can use one, two or all three fields:
   • Role: everyone with this role. When you add a new admin, they get alerts too.
   • Users: search for users by name or email.
   • Recipients (comma-separated): email addresses without a WordPress account.
5. Click Save Channel.

If Role, Users and Recipients are all empty, the email goes to your site’s admin email.

Add a Slack channel #

1. In Slack, create an incoming webhook for your channel. Slack gives you a URL that starts with https://hooks.slack.com/.
2. In Pastmark, click Add Channel.
3. Type a Channel Name, for example #security-alerts.
4. Under Type, choose Slack.
5. Paste the URL into Webhook URL.
6. Click Save Channel.

Add a webhook channel #

Use a webhook to send alerts to another service, for example an automation tool.

1. Click Add Channel and choose the Type Webhook.
2. Enter the Webhook URL.
3. If the service needs extra headers, add them under Extra Headers, one Name: Value per line.
4. Click Save Channel.

Pastmark Pro sends a POST request with JSON data. It includes the rule name, the event type, the action, the severity, the message, the time, the count and a link to the event.

Edit or delete a channel #

Use the pencil icon to edit a channel, and the trash icon to delete it. If you delete a channel, rules that use it stop sending through it.

If a webhook or Slack message fails, Pastmark Pro tries once more. If it still fails, the error is saved in the activity log.