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Top 3 GitHub Enterprise Slack Integrations

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We are going to deep dive in the three ways to connect your engineering team into Slack with GitHub Enterprise and how to do it. The options are:

  • Axolo, the collaborative application.
  • GitHub Enterprise Server, the official integration,
  • Toast, the personal notification bot,

Axolo, the collaborative application

What is Axolo?

In opposition to the other GitHub integrations, each pull request creates an ephemeral Slack channel. Instead of notifying a whole team, Axolo only invites reviewers and assignees and sends only the information that they need to see (comments, CI/CD, GitHub Action, deployments, checks) to process the pull request in due time.

Axolo pull request checks

Then, you will be able to find all of your pull requests in Axolo home in Slack.

Axolo pull request home

Looking for more information on Axolo? Discover our features in our landing page or in our documentation and our security guidelines.

How to set up Axolo for Enterprise?

Axolo for Enterprise is only available upon request. If you wish to try Axolo with your company, contact us.

GitHub Enterprise Server

What is GitHub Enterprise Server

GitHub Enterprise Server is a copy of the GitHub app for Slack dedicated to Enterprise customers.

This application will post commits, pull requests, and activity on GitHub Issues to a specific channel.

How to set up GitHub Enterprise Server?

Step 1

In your GitHub account, select the repository you want to follow. Then, click on Settings in the navigation bar.

GitHub Enterprise set up step 1

Step 2

In the left navigation, click on Webhooks, and press the Add webhook button.

GitHub Enterprise set up step 1

Step 3

Paste https://hooks.slack.com/services/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 as the Payload URL. Make sure that the Content type is application/json and the SSL verification is enabled. You can choose a wide range of events to trigger notifications, but for now, they only support commits, issues, and pull requests. Click on the Add webhook button.

GitHub Enterprise set up step 1

Step 4

You can filter on a specific branch, choose which channel you want to send these notifications to, and personalize the label, name, and icon of your integrations.

Toast, the personnal notification bot

What is ToastE?

Toast is a Slack notification bot for GitHub. It sends alerts upon new pull request reviews, comments, and issues in your direct messages. ToastE is the enterprise version of Toast.

How to set up ToastE

First, you need to answer a form to be eligible.

This is an overview of the following setup:

  • Set up a host.
  • Create a GitHub app.
  • Create Slack app.
  • Deploy ToastE.
  • Expose ToastE API to Slack.
  • Finalize configuration.
  • Use Toast!

If you want to have a detailed overview of the ToastE setup, they have developed a gitbook for that purpose.