Set up alerts
Horus runs on its own overnight, so you shouldn't have to sit in the dashboard to find out something went wrong. Connect a notification channel and Horus tells you when a finding worth your attention appears.
Alerts are managed under Settings → Integrations and require the admin role.
Supported channels
| Channel | Type | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Slack | slack | A team channel that pings on new high/critical findings. |
| Microsoft Teams | teams | The same, for Teams shops. |
email | One or more inboxes; also carries the monthly board report. | |
| PagerDuty | pagerduty | Waking someone up for Act-level issues. |
| Opsgenie | opsgenie | On-call routing and escalation. |
| Webhook | webhook | Anything else: pipe events into your own system. |
(Jira, AWS, and GCP are also integrations, but they're for ticketing and cloud audits rather than alerts. See ticket creation and cloud audits.)
Add an integration
- Go to Settings → Integrations → Add integration.
- Pick the channel type.
- Fill in the connection details:
- Slack / Teams / Webhook: the incoming webhook URL.
- Email: the recipient address(es).
- PagerDuty / Opsgenie: the integration/API key.
- Set the minimum severity. This is your noise dial:
high(recommended) means you're only pinged for high and critical findings;mediumwidens it;criticalnarrows it to the most urgent only. - Save, then use Send test to confirm the channel actually receives a message. Fix the connection details if the test fails.
Secrets you enter (webhook URLs, API keys) are masked in the UI afterwards; Horus never shows them back to you in full.
Tune the volume
If a channel is too noisy, raise its minimum severity. If people are ignoring it, it's usually because the threshold is too low, not too high. A good default:
- Slack/Teams:
high, so the channel stays credible. - PagerDuty/Opsgenie:
critical, reserved for wake-someone-up territory. - Email:
highormedium, since inboxes tolerate more volume.
You can run several integrations at once with different thresholds, e.g. a broad email digest plus a narrow PagerDuty escalation.
Monthly board report by email
Any email integration can be opted in to the monthly executive posture report. Toggle Board report on the integration, and Horus emails a board-ready PDF of your security trend on the first of each month. See the board posture report guide for what's in it.