How to Enable or Disable Notifications for a Particular Team in Cortex

Cortex allows you to control notifications at both the team and individual member level using the entity descriptor (YAML file). Here’s how you can manage notification settings for your teams:

1. Configure Notifications for Individual Team Members

You can enable or disable notifications for specific team members by setting the notificationsEnabled field in the team entity YAML. For example:

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
 title: Eng Team
 x-cortex-tag: eng-team
 x-cortex-team:
   members:
   - name: Jane Doe
     role: Engineering Manager
     email: jdoe@example.com
     notificationsEnabled: true
   - name: Aaron Smith
     role: Staff Software Engineer
     email: asmith@example.com
     notificationsEnabled: false

In this example, Jane will receive notifications, but Aaron will not. This allows you to tailor notifications to only those team members who need them.

2. Configure Notifications for Team Slack or Microsoft Teams Channels

You can also control notifications for specific Slack or MS Teams channels associated with a team:

x-cortex-slack:
 channels:
 - name: team-insights
   notificationsEnabled: true
 - name: escalate-insights
   notificationsEnabled: false

This configuration enables notifications for the team-insights channel, but disables them for escalate-insights.