Create and manage notifications

This page explains how to create and manage notifications.

Required permissions

• For organization-wide notifications: Manage settings.

• For New invoice, Due or overdue payments, and Credit utilization notifications: Invoice viewer.

• For Quota utilization, Cloud cost anomalies, and Digests notifications: Cloud Analytics.

• For Cloud incidents notifications: Issues viewer.

Access notifications

To access notifications, sign in to the DoiT console, select the gear icon () from the top navigation bar, and select Notifications. On the Notifications page, you can create notifications for your organization, edit your personal email notifications, or edit your in-app notifications.

Create notifications

You can create, personal, organization-wide, and in-app notifications.

Create personal notifications

1. Select Set up notifications.

   

2. Specify the notification types you want to receive.

3. Select Save.

Create organization-wide notifications

You can set up notifications for different providers such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email. To receive a notification in different providers, create one notification per provider.

1. Select Create new notification. There are three steps to create a new notification.

   

2. Select the notification provider.

   1. Enter a name for the new notification.

   2. Choose how you want to get the notification, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Email:

      • Slack: To receive Slack notifications, you need to install the DoiT app for Slack.

      • Microsoft Teams: To receive notifications in Microsoft Teams, you need to add the DoiT app for Microsoft Teams to the team you want to send notifications.

   3. Select Next.

3. Select channels. This setting varies with the notification provider.

   • Slack: You can choose shared, public, or private Slack channels in your workspace.

   • Microsoft Teams: Choose channels of the team that has been connected in the previous step. To add additional channels to the connected team or connect a new team, see DoiT app for Microsoft Teams.

   • Email: You can add multiple email addresses.

4. Specify the notification types you want to receive.

5. Save the configurations to create the new notification.

Send notifications to private Slack channels

To send notifications to a private channel, you must be a member of that channel.

Run the following command inside the channel to allow it to receive notifications:

/invite @DoiTInternational

If you can't find the private channel after running the command, refresh the page in the DoiT console.

Once you've added a private Slack channel, anyone in your organization with the Manage settings permission can use it to set up notifications for shared Slack channels.

In-app notifications

To create an in-app notification:

1. Select In-app.

2. In Select in-app notifications, choose which in-app notifications you want to receive. You can choose Cost anomaly, Cloud incident, Alert, Budget, New invoice, Invoice reminder.

3. (Optional) Turn on the Enable real-time notifications toggle to display real-time notifications while you are using the console. Select Notification preview to view how real-time notifications are displayed.

   

4. Select Save.

Edit a notification

To edit a notification:

1. Sign in to the DoiT console, select the gear icon () from the top navigation bar, and then select Notifications.

2. On the Notifications page, find the notification of interest, select its name, or select the three dots menu (⋮) at the rightmost end of the notification entry and choose Edit notification.

3. Update the notification. For organization-wide notifications, you can edit the channels as well as the notification types.

4. Save your changes.

Remove a notification

To remove a notification:

1. On the Notifications page, select the three dots menu (⋮) at the rightmost end of the notification entry, and select Remove notification.

2. Confirm that you want to remove the notification.