Integrating Confluence with Slack
Asked by Chris Schilling:

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to integrate Confluence with Slack, such that any updates or comments made to pages will appear in a specific Slack channel. What would be the best way to go about accomplishing this?

Thanks!


Answers:
author: Shrey
body: Hi there, great news!!! We now have a free Confluence Cloud \<\> Slack integration (built by Atlassian) available for your team to use.

Please visit [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219518/confluence-cloud-for-slack?hosting=cloud\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219518/confluence-cloud-for-slack?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) for more details. Looking forward to hearing feedback from you.

comments: author: Robert Schrier
body: Thanks, works great!


author: Andreas Kleiber
body: Awesome! Thank you :-)


author: Jessie
body: Hey, question - is there a way to use this integration to receive notifications from new questions being posted in the Questions for Confluence rather than a page? I'm not seeing any of the settings mentioned in the documentation in that section of the space?


author: Shrey
body: Hi Jessie, this functionality is not there yet. Please feel free to provide in-product feedback using /confluence feedback slack command.


author: Jessie
body: Thanks, will do!


author: Cian O'Reilly
body: Hi Shreshth, Are Atlassian working the free Confluence Server \<\> Slack integration?


author: Shrey
body: Hi Cian,

Currently we don't have a free Confluence Server \<\> Slack integration. It is only available through third party vendors.


author: Noel Howell
body: @shreshth -- with the new slack app, can I SEARCH confluence? Thats the most requested feature from my team.

E.G. the conversation in slack is:

Q\> Where is the information?

A\> In Confluence...

...and then the person has to actually navigate to confluence in their browser to search rather than being able to search directly from Slack.


author: Vitalii Saienko
body: [@Noel Howell](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/955038) We just added this feature. Try **/confluence help** command in Slack channel for the instruction ;)


author: Nikola Stjelja
body: Do we have a similar solution for customers using Confluence Server?


author: Shrey
body: Hi there,

Currently we don't have a free Confluence Server \<\> Slack integration. It is only available through third party vendors.


author: Nikola Stjelja
body: Hi there,

thank you for your answer.

This is a sad piece of news for Server version users who relied on the integrations with Hipchat.

Any plans when this functionalities will be brought back to the Server versions of Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket - in the same/similar way they were present for Hipchat?


author: Ludia Administrator
body: As [@Nikola Stjelja](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2163267)said, HipChat is retiring soon. More effort from Atlassian should be done to replace the integrations from JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket/etc to Slack ASAP.

Your decision to retire HipChat and force us to Slack should not make us buy third party addons to have the same features as before.

O.


author: Vitalii Saienko
body: Hi [@Ludia Administrator](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/676318). Thanks for your comment. We have [Bitbucket Cloud for Slack](https://slack.com/apps/A8W8QLZD1-bitbucket-cloud) and [Jira Cloud for Slack](https://slack.com/apps/A2RPP3NFR-jira-cloud) integrations. They're completely free, so you can start using them.


author: Bruce Reed
body: Wish Atlassian would support Confluence server in the same respect. I don't understand why integrations like these are not made to work with both. Doesn't it use the REST api?

Those of us running server due to specific needs (branding, wider range of add-ons, sso that doesn't cost us an arm and a leg,) are 2nd class citizens to Atlassian these days. It's not as if our licensing and ongoing support costs are any less than cloud customers. In fact, we pay more considering we must run our own infrastructure. Very sad.


author: Bruce Reed
body: I wish this support would be extended to Confluence Server. There is a trends towards Atlassian only building integration for the cloud products. Can't the REST api be used in both cases?

Bottom line is that Server customers now feel like 2nd class citizens. It's not as if we pay less for Atlassian products, actually, far more considering we manage our own infrastructure. Either kill the server products altogether or fully support them. Recognize that your customers have specific needs for running server based products, like branding, more flexibility in customization, a richer set of add-ons, etc. and support us comparably.


author: Andrew Rayner (RizzelDazz)
body: *Sure it can*

But we all know how annoying oAuth is


author: Tom De Blende
body: What would be cool is updating a Knowledge Base in Confluence from within Slack... Then we can have people ask questions and post both the question and its replies to Confluence.

comments: author: Toby Richards
body: This is the type of integration I'm after from Confluence / Slack. To automatically post certain messages and their threads into a Confluence space to aid building up a Knowledge Base. I can then leverage the 'live search' facility in Confluence to surface the results.


author: Tim Wisniewski
body: I came here to ask this as well -- I'm a developer so I'd be happy to work on it but it's not clear that it's actually **possible** as Confluence only seems to work with apps in the official atlassian marketplace.


author: John Wall
body: Is there a way to subscribe to a Tag in Confluence? e.g. I want to tag important pages in confluence as "announcements," and have that automatically push into a corresponding slack channel.

I tried creating a "stream" page using a widget, but because the page itself doesn't update (the widget does) no update is pushed to Slack.

comments: author: David Mason
body: Gosh, is there a way to do this with a webhook, like there is with Jira?


author: Adrian Wieczorek
body: Hi All,

Our [Slack Connector](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/eu.wisoft.slack.jira/cloud/overview) add-on will support Confluence very soon. We should start working on this in next two weeks. This will be the Cloud-only version however.

comments: author: Rick Beecroft
body: Hi Adrian,

Just wondering why it will be a Cloud Only connector?

Thanks,

Rick


author: Adrian Wieczorek
body: Hi Rick,

We built our add-on using [Atlassian Connect Framework](https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/guides/introduction.html) which, at the moment, supports only Cloud products. Building a Cloud add-on is more like building a web application where we maintain all the backend infrastructure on our own. Server add-ons however are more like desktop application with completely different approach (and technology used). Therefore, there is no easy way to "port" already existing Cloud add-on into Server and that's why we don't have plans of doing so at this point.

We'll let you know if anything change regarding this.

Cheers,


author: Dave Albert
body: Any luck building this integration?


author: Terrance Teoh
body: Any forecast on when this will e ready ?

Thanks !


author: Andreas Kleiber
body: As HipChat and Stride are deprecated is there any official Bot planned for Confluence?


author: Pierre-Fran?ois Gonon
body: I would like to have this feature as well.

It's possible with JIRA, it should be possible with Confluence.


author: Filippo Russo
body: I hope that soon will be possible to have a free integration from Confluence and Slack!!


author: Junaid Mohammed
body: Hi,

I understand there is a possibility of notifications coming into slack if a page is crested, comment made etc. However can I integrate in such a way that whatver I am discussing in slack automatically gets posted on confluence?

comments: author: ?ukasz
body: How would you imagine it? Like a history of all messages from Slack? What would be a purpose for that?


author: Fowler
body: [@?ukasz R?anek1](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/946067), I think what he's talking about, and what I'm looking for, is link previews, which are extremely common in Slack. Paste any public URL into a slack message and you'll get a rich preview (if enabled)

I'd love to see the page title, first line of content, and number of comments and likes on the page when pasting confluence link.

Atlassian already does it for Jira issues (see <https://slack.atlassian.com>) - giving me hope they'll do something for Confluence


author: Adrian Wieczorek
body: [@Fowler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/499884) So, in short, you would like the page's links from your Confluence instance to be unfurled (that's the term they use for that) on your Slack channels when pasted there?


author: Fowler
body: Yep - link unfurling is the main thing I'm looking for. Notifications are great but can overwhelm a channel, rich previews are far more important to me and my team


author: Stephen
body: Nope I want to collaborate on a confluence page via a slack channel. So I link a slack channel to a confluence page and everytime I post a msg on that slack channel it appears either as appended text to the confluence page body or as a comment. It is my choice whether it appears in confluence as a page append or comment.

Please implement this feature next for the confluence slack integration :)


author: Alex Medved _ConfiForms_
body: Hi

We develop a plugin for JIRA Cloud ([JIrassimo notifications for JIRA](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/net.vacom.jirassimo)), that does this sort of the integration for JIRA (between JIRA and Slack, among the other channels/messengers)

I would start with <https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/latest/modules/common/webhook.html>

It has the event you are looking for, so it should be possible to implement it as a plugin


author: Igor Kosoy
body: QQ, can I create new Blog post in Wiki (linked page) when new message created on Slack channel?


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