Messaging

Mattermost

The ANOW! Observe integration with Mattermost routes operational alerts from Alertmanager directly to Mattermost channels through a one-way outbound connection. This integration delivers enriched notifications for workload automation incidents, such as job failures or SLA breaches, directly into your self-hosted Mattermost workspace, preserving data sovereignty.

Mattermost

About the Integration

The ANOW! Observe integration with Mattermost facilitates the secure delivery of critical operational alerts. It enables Alertmanager, the Prometheus alerting component integrated in ANOW! Observe, to post detailed incident notifications to Mattermost channels or users. This one-way outbound communication ensures that sensitive operational data from ANOW! Automate or other workload automation platforms, like BMC Control-M, remains within your controlled infrastructure, addressing stringent data-residency and air-gapped environment requirements.

Alerts are triggered when Alertmanager routes notifications to a configured Mattermost receiver, utilizing Mattermost's Incoming Webhook URLs for authentication. This streamlined method ensures secure communication over HTTPS. Alertmanager deduplicates, groups, and prioritizes alerts before dispatch, providing signal-rich information rather than overwhelming channels with redundant messages. Notifications support 'firing' and 'resolved' states, with rich message formatting compatible with Slack's message-attachment format, including deep links for immediate investigation.

This integration is designed for enterprise IT operations teams in regulated industries, public sector entities, and organizations prioritizing on-premise deployments and data sovereignty. It fits into hybrid IT landscapes where unified operational visibility and control over critical alerts are paramount, especially for workload automation incidents across mainframe and distributed environments.

Integration Benefits

Ensure Data Sovereignty

Maintain complete control over sensitive operational data. By utilizing Mattermost, which is typically self-hosted, message content remains entirely within your own data boundary, meeting strict data-residency and sovereignty mandates.

Deliver Enriched Alerts

Receive highly informative operational notifications directly in Mattermost. Alerts include severity, context, affected job/workflow details, and deep links back to ANOW! Observe for rapid incident triage and resolution.

Streamline Alert Management

Reduce notification fatigue with intelligent alert processing. Alertmanager deduplicates, groups, and prioritizes alerts before dispatching them to Mattermost, ensuring your teams receive only actionable, signal-rich information.

Maintain Compliance & Auditability

Integrate operational alerts into your governed execution record. Every Mattermost notification is linked to its corresponding workflow run within ANOW! Observe's audit trail, with RBAC controlling configuration access for enhanced compliance.

Use Cases

Workflows Supported by This Integration

OPERATIONS

Real-time Workload Incident Notifications

Deliver immediate, detailed alerts to Mattermost when workload automation jobs fail or SLAs are breached, enabling rapid response.

COMPLIANCE

Auditable Incident Communication

Capture and link all operational alert communications in Mattermost to ANOW! Observe's audit trail for compliance.

SECURITY

Secure Alerting for Regulated Environments

Route sensitive operational alerts to a self-hosted Mattermost instance, maintaining strict data residency and security.

IT MONITORING

Consolidated Incident Reporting

Consolidate critical alerts from various sources, including mainframes, into a single Mattermost channel for unified visibility.

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