Connecting Slack
The Slack integration gives you execution notifications and quick actions directly in your workspace. It's optional but recommended — especially before creating schedules, so you can select a notification channel.
Slack is for notifications and quick actions only. All management — creating Connections, Targets, and Schedules — is done on the web dashboard.
Prerequisites
- Slack workspace admin access (to approve the app installation)
- A Slack channel for frugally.app notifications (e.g.
#cloud-ops)
Installing the Slack app
1. Open the Install page
Navigate to Settings > Install Slack App in the dashboard, or use the link below.
[SCREENSHOT: install-slack-app.png — dashboard Install Slack App page]
2. Authorise in Slack
Click Install to Slack. Slack's OAuth screen shows the permissions frugally.app requests. Review and click Allow.
[SCREENSHOT: slack-oauth-permissions.png — Slack OAuth screen]
3. Confirm connection
You'll be redirected back to the dashboard. The status shows Connected.
[SCREENSHOT: slack-connected-status.png — Connected status]
What you can do with Slack
- Execution notifications — Receive results in a Slack channel after every execution
- Quick actions — Trigger schedules directly from Slack
- Home tab overview — See upcoming schedules and recent activity from the Frugally Home tab in Slack
[SCREENSHOT: slack-home-tab.png — Frugally Home tab in Slack]
What Slack cannot do
Slack cannot create, edit, or delete Connections, Targets, or Schedules. It also cannot access Cost Intelligence or Cost Guard. All of these are managed via the web dashboard.
You can skip this step and return later. Executions and Schedules work without Slack — results are always visible on the Executions page.
Next up: Running an Execution — test your setup with a manual action.