# Slack

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## Overview

Stay informed about Fly without leaving Slack. You'll know the moment a release ships, a deploy lands, or something you watch happens.

From Slack you can:

- **Get the notifications you need.** Releases, deployments, and custom watches all land in your channels.
- **Bring the team along.** Subscribe channels to the releases and environments your team should track.
- **Ask Fly anything in chat.** Queries, searches, and watch management, all in natural language.

Fly meets your team where they already work.

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## Setup

1. **Connect Fly to your Slack workspace.** In **Fly Web → Settings**, click **Connect to Slack** and authorize the Fly app. (Admin-level, one time.)

2. **Link your Slack account.** Open the **Fly Slack app**, go to the **Home** tab, and click **Connect to Fly**. Now Fly responses in Slack are scoped to you.

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## Using Fly in Slack

- **`/fly`** — In any Slack channel or DM, type the slash command followed by what you want. Quickest way to ask Fly or set a watch.
- **Fly Slack app** — In your Slack sidebar, click the **Fly** app. The Home tab has connection status, channel subscriptions, and a personal chat space.

Pick whichever fits.

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## Notifications in Slack

Set a watch on what you care about, and Fly notifies you when something matches. Set watches through `/fly`, the Fly Slack app, or your coding agent.

Notifications 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.

Fly notifies you about:

| Event | What you see | Example watch |
|---|---|---|
| **Release** | What was released, a short summary, when, and by whom. | *"Notify me when a new release is created for payment-service."* |
| **Deployment** | What was deployed, the repository, when, the image version, and which environment. | *"Notify me when a new version is deployed to production."* |
| **Distribution** | Who distributed it. Where to find it. | *"Notify me when a new public version of my-app is distributed."* |

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## Ask Fly in Slack

Understand everything happening with your team, directly from Slack. Ask anything through `/fly` or the Fly Slack app:

- *"What's the latest release from payment-service?"*
- *"Notify me when a new release is created for payment-service."*
- *"Is the login fix live in production?"*
- *"List my watches."*

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## Next steps

- [Notifications →](../../fly-platform/notifications/) - The watch model and semantic matching
- [Where to Use Fly →](../) - The other interfaces