Grafana image alert firing in a slack reply

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Hello,

I have Grafana v9.4.1 and am setting up notifications with images to slack.
This is all that I have achieved so far:
image

There are two problems here:

  1. The image is attached to the reply rather than to the original message.
  2. I want to get rid of the text above the image.

Regarding the first problem I cannot find anything on the forums or in the documentation.
The second issue I see that there is the configuration for [unified_alerting.reserved_labels]
disabled_labels which I have set to grafana_folder,alert-group,alertname,__alert_rule_uid__. This did not help.

What can I do to include the image in the original message and get rid of excess message body text?

Thank you

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Hi! To answer your questions:

  1. I’m afraid the image must be attached as a reply rather than in the original message because the Slack API does not allow bot tokens to upload images with the chat.postMessage API. Bots use files.upload API to upload images, but the file must be uploaded to the channel as a separate message or as a reply to the original message otherwise the image is private to the bot, and no one else can see it.

  2. I’m afraid it’s not possible to remove the text from above the image, this is there so when notifications contain multiple alerts (due to grouping in the notification policy) you can match each image to its corresponding alert.

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