Slack hook only have option for failed deploy but not cancel

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Thanks so much, Jen!

Making the webhook triggers higher resolution would go a long way in helping use the recommended workflows and take full advantage of all of Netlify’s native features. Rather than ejecting and using custom integrations to fit our use case.

In case it’s useful to the team, here are some triggers that we would love. And below I’ll describe our use case and solutions (which seem quite common based on other forum threads I’ve read).

Webhook Triggers

“Deploy cancelled” or “Deploy ignored”
As described above. Usually happens when the “no content change” step happens. Or when an ignore flag passes. Maybe this webhook response includes the reason in the body.

“Deploy continued”
The opposite of cancelled. The build and deploy decided to continue.

Use case

We have a monorepo with ~6 different sites (and growing!). And we use Slack notifications heavily to monitor our systems.

If we make a change to one site, then we get bombarded with “Build Started” and then seconds later “Build Failed” for all the repos with no change.

We are currently solving this by:

  • Using GitHub Actions and the path: site/** directive
  • Disabling automatic git deploys using this strategy you mentioned
  • Triggering all deploys via Build Hooks
  • Finally, we are using some middleware (Zapier) to filter out webhook triggers that don’t need to be notified (e.g. Cancelled Builds)

So, if Netlify adds the webhooks above, then we would be able to skip all of these steps. And instead we would use the normal Netlify deploy process and listen for webhooks:

  • Continued (instead of Started)
  • Failed (which does not include Cancelled)
  • Successful

Thanks again for all the support and the super clear answers on the other threads. We’re very happy new Netlify users!

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