# How to Monitor Slack Uptime

> Slack is a messaging platform for teams, offering channels, direct messages, and integrations with business tools.

*Source: https://monitoristic.com/monitor/slack*

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## Why Monitor Slack?

When Slack goes down, team communication stops. Integrations break, bots stop posting, and critical alerts from other tools never arrive. The irony: you can't even tell your team Slack is down... on Slack.

## What to Monitor

- `slack.com` — Main app availability
- `api.slack.com` — Bot and integration API
- `hooks.slack.com` — Incoming webhook endpoints

## What You Should Actually Do

1. Monitor slack.com and hooks.slack.com — catch both app and integration outages
2. Never rely on Slack as your only alert channel — if Slack is down and your alerts go to Slack, you get nothing
3. Set up Telegram as a backup alert channel — it's independent of Slack's infrastructure
4. Document a backup communication plan — Google Meet link, email list, or phone tree
5. Bookmark status.slack.com — Slack's official status page

## Slack's Official Status Page

Slack publishes real-time status at https://status.slack.com. Your own monitor complements it by catching connection-level issues, often before the status page updates.

## Takeaway

The Slack outage paradox: the tool you'd use to tell your team about a problem is the problem. Every team that runs on Slack needs a monitoring and alerting system that doesn't depend on Slack. The 30-minute gap between "Slack is down" and "the team knows Slack is down" is entirely preventable with a single alert to a non-Slack channel.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do I get notified when Slack goes down?

Set up an HTTP monitor for slack.com on Monitoristic with Telegram alerts (not Slack webhooks). When Slack goes down, you get a Telegram notification instead — which actually works because it's a separate service.

### Should I send monitoring alerts to Slack?

Not as your only channel. If Slack is your alerting destination and Slack goes down, you lose your alerts exactly when you need them most. Use Telegram or webhooks as your primary alert channel, and Slack as a secondary.

### Can I monitor Slack's webhook API separately?

Yes. Create one monitor for slack.com (the app) and another for hooks.slack.com (the webhook API). The app can be working while webhooks are degraded, or vice versa.

### How is this different from status.slack.com?

Slack's status page covers their global platform. Your monitor checks whether YOU can reach Slack — which catches network-level issues, regional problems, and DNS failures that their status page might not reflect.