How do you send detailed error message notification in slack using notify?

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I was wondering if this is possible to pass the error message to the one who run the pipeline.

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@Joe

You could absolutely do that! The way it would work is to create a dynamic pipeline that generates a notify step and passes the error message inside the script generating the dynamic pipeline.

Here is an example script that would create a notification and passes the user that unblocked a deploy step:

set -eu

echo 'steps:' >> notification.yml
echo '  - label: "🚀 Deploy time"' >> notification.yml
echo '    command: "echo deploy_time"' >> notification.yml
echo '    notify:' >> notification.yml
echo '      - slack:' >> notification.yml
echo '          channels:' >> notification.yml
echo '            - "#test-notifications"' >> notification.yml
echo "          message: |
            Deployed by $BUILDKITE_UNBLOCKER <$BUILDKITE_UNBLOCKER_EMAIL>" >> notification.yml

buildkite-agent pipeline upload notification.yml

There are other ways to do it, but the idea would be to generate that step as a dynamic pipeline with the info you need in it.

Hope that helps!