---
title: "Start a Cloud Slack install"
method: POST
path: "/api/{org_id}/slack/install/start"
tags: ["Slack"]
---

# Start a Cloud Slack install

`POST /api/{org_id}/slack/install/start`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.openobserve.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.openobserve.ai/api/{org_id}/slack/install/start`
- Auth: API key in header `Authorization`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/openobserve/apis/openobserve-api-http/docs/api/:org_id/slack/install/start/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Returns the Slack authorize URL for the shared Cloud app, with the source signed into the state. Cloud only; self-hosted answers 404.

## Path parameters

- `org_id` string, required

## Request body

- object

## Response `200`

`{"authorization_url"}`

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Unknown source
- `403`: Not an admin, or the OSS build
- `404`: Slack is not enabled for this organization, or not Cloud

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/openobserve/apis/openobserve-api-http.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/openobserve/apis/openobserve-api-http/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/openobserve/apis/openobserve-api-http/revisions/0529b8a10252?raw)