Notifications

Overview

Stay connected to what’s happening with your team and your product. Know about everything that ships and deploys.

Describe what you care about in plain language, and Fly notifies you in Slack.

Manage your watches

A watch is a free-text description of what you want to be notified about.

Set up a new watch

Tell Fly what you care about in plain language. Fly uses semantic matching, so your watch doesn’t need exact keywords. “Alert me when something hits production” matches deployment events to your prod environment.

When you set up a watch, you decide:

  • What you want to be notified about — a release, deployment, or distribution event.
  • Where notifications go — your DM, a channel, or your whole team.

Notifications arrive in Slack regardless of which interface you used to set the watch. Multiple watches can overlap; Fly deduplicates equivalent ones automatically.

Watch types

Fly notifies you about:

EventWhat you seeExample watch
ReleaseWhat was released, a short summary, when, and by whom.“Notify me when a new release is created for payment-service.”
DeploymentWhat was deployed, the repository, when, the image version, and which environment.“Notify me when a new version is deployed to production.”
DistributionWho distributed it. Where to find it.“Notify me when a new public version of my-app is distributed.”

Notification levels

Each watch can be delivered as:

  • Personal notification — Fly DMs you when the watch matches.
  • Channel notification — Fly posts in a specific Slack channel.
  • Team notification — Fly notifies your whole team.

Where to set watches

Set, list, edit, or remove watches from any of these. All work in plain language:

  • Your coding agent. Ask in natural language.
  • Fly Web. Ask Fly Chat in your web interface to set a watch for you.
  • Slack. Use /fly from any channel or DM, or open the Fly Slack app.

Each team can have up to 50 watches.

Edit or remove watches

Edit or remove watches the same way you set them up. Any interface, in plain language: “Remove the watch about production deployments.” “List my watches.”

Note

Make sure your Fly Slack app is connected. See how to set up Slack.

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