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Get DLP Alerts and Prompt Notifications in Slack
March 17, 20264 min readTeamPrompt Team
## Why Slack?
Your security team lives in Slack. When a DLP guardrail blocks an employee from pasting a customer's Social Security number into ChatGPT, the right people need to know — immediately, not the next time someone checks the admin dashboard.
TeamPrompt's Slack integration brings three types of real-time notifications to your channels.
## Three notification types
### 1. DLP Violation Alerts
When a team member's message is blocked or flagged by a guardrail rule, Slack gets an instant notification with:
- The rule that triggered (e.g. "SSN Pattern Detected")
- The category (PII, credentials, financial, etc.)
- The severity level (block or warning)
- Which user and which AI tool
This gives your security team immediate visibility into data leak attempts — without anyone needing to log into the admin panel.
### 2. Prompt Approval Notifications
When a team member submits a new prompt for review (because they don't have auto-approve permissions), a Slack message appears with:
- The prompt title
- Who submitted it
- A direct link to the approval queue
Managers can see what needs review without checking the app. Approval workflows move faster.
### 3. Weekly Activity Digest
Every Monday, Slack posts a summary card showing:
- Total AI conversations this week
- Number of DLP events
- New prompts created
- Active users
- Your most-used prompt
It's a quick pulse check on how your team is using AI — delivered where you already look.
## How to connect
1. Go to **Settings → Integrations**
2. Click **Connect Slack** on the Slack card
3. Authorize TeamPrompt in your workspace
4. Select a notification channel (e.g. #teamprompt-alerts)
5. **Important:** Invite the bot to the channel — type `/invite @TeamPrompt` in Slack
6. Toggle which notifications you want on/off
Each notification type can be enabled or disabled independently. The channel picker lets you choose any public or private channel the bot has been invited to.
## Designed to not be noisy
Notifications are fire-and-forget — they don't slow down the extension or the scan. DLP alerts are batched per scan (one message per incident, not one per rule match). The weekly digest is a single card, not a thread.
If your team has strict guardrails with many rules, you'll get one alert per blocked message, not one per matched pattern.
## What's next
Phase 2 will add **slash commands** — search your prompt library and run DLP checks directly from Slack:
- `/teamprompt search onboarding` — find prompts
- `/teamprompt check [paste text]` — DLP scan
- `/teamprompt help` — see available commands
Phase 3 adds **interactive buttons** — approve or reject prompts directly from the Slack notification, no browser needed.
## Get started
Connect Slack in under a minute from **Settings → Integrations**. Your security team will thank you.
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