# Discourse-official-slack: no error message after failed post to slack
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-slack-no-error-message-after-failed-post-to-slack/69421
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [05.Сентябрь.2017 18:49:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-slack-no-error-message-after-failed-post-to-slack/69421 "2017-09-05T18:49:43Z")
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [05.Сентябрь.2017 18:49:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-slack-no-error-message-after-failed-post-to-slack/69421/1 "2017-09-05T18:49:43Z")
While investigating a (probably) unrelated problem I noticed that the slack plugin does not post any kind of message to the error logs (`https://site/logs`) if the slack notification fails.
Tested by setting an invalid `slack outbound webhook url` on a site and posting a new topic as well as pressing ‘Test Notifications’.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [05.Сентябрь.2017 18:57:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-slack-no-error-message-after-failed-post-to-slack/69421/2 "2017-09-05T18:57:48Z")
This is one of the things I fixed with `discourse-chat-integration`, which hopefully will be replacing the slack plugin very soon - it writes errors to the site logs, and shows them in the admin interface next to the associated “channel” as well.
> [@Discourse Chat Integrations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522):
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> information_source Chat Integration is for using an external chat system together with Discourse — you may be looking for [Discourse Chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881) which adds Chat functionality directly to Discourse. discourse2Summaryopen_bookInstall Guide The Discourse Chat Integration plugin lets you send messages in your preferred chat platform when something happens in Discourse. Messages can be triggered by: New topics New replies Messages to a group Mentions of a group Functio…
For example:
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [05.Сентябрь.2017 19:08:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-slack-no-error-message-after-failed-post-to-slack/69421/3 "2017-09-05T19:08:14Z")
Nice, can’t wait for this!
FWIW, I also discovered that the existing ‘Test Notification’ button is a gamble - it isn’t guaranteed to send out a notification. It only does if the post it randomly selects matches the filters.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [05.Сентябрь.2017 19:10:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-slack-no-error-message-after-failed-post-to-slack/69421/4 "2017-09-05T19:10:38Z")
> [@supermathie](#):
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> FWIW, I also discovered that the existing ‘Test Notification’ button is a gamble
Yep, that’s another thing that’s fixed. discourse-chat-integration allows the user to select a specific topic to send, so there’s no chance of it trying to send a PM, and then failing 😃
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [06.Сентябрь.2017 00:09:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-slack-no-error-message-after-failed-post-to-slack/69421/5 "2017-09-06T00:09:20Z")