Slack Agent
Feb 27, 2026 | by openstatus | [notifications]
Meet the OpenStatus Slack agent — manage your incidents without leaving Slack.
Mention @openstatus in any channel to create, update, and resolve incidents or schedule maintenance windows. Your status page and subscribers stay in sync automatically.
Here's what you can do:
- Create incidents —
@openstatus create an incident for the payment API – high latency detected. - Update incidents —
@openstatus keep the status page updated that we are still monitoring the issue. - Resolve incidents —
@openstatus resolve the ongoing incident on my API status page. - Schedule maintenance —
@openstatus schedule a maintenance window for my database next Friday from 2–3 PM.
Head to Settings > Integrations in your dashboard to install the Slack agent.