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docs: more details about slack notifier

closes #11059
bergquist 8 years ago
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@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Recipient | allows you to override the Slack recipient.
 Mention | make it possible to include a mention in the Slack notification sent by Grafana. Ex @here or @channel
 Mention | make it possible to include a mention in the Slack notification sent by Grafana. Ex @here or @channel
 Token | If provided, Grafana will upload the generated image via Slack's file.upload API method, not the external image destination.
 Token | If provided, Grafana will upload the generated image via Slack's file.upload API method, not the external image destination.
 
 
+If you are using the token for a slack bot, then you have to invite the bot to the channel you want to send notifications and add the channel to the recipient field.
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 ### PagerDuty
 ### PagerDuty
 
 
 To set up PagerDuty, all you have to do is to provide an API key.
 To set up PagerDuty, all you have to do is to provide an API key.