# Email and Slack Notifications

Render can notify you via email and/or Slack when certain events occur (such as when your service's deploy fails). You can [set workspace-level defaults](#setting-workspace-defaults) for notifications, and you can also [customize notifications](#customizing-per-service) for individual services.

> *Want to trigger custom workflows from a wide variety of platform events?*
>
> See [Webhooks](webhooks).

## Supported notifications

Render can notify you of the following events, depending on which notification level you set (*Only failure notifications* or *All notifications*):

| Event | Minimum Notification Level |
|--------|--------|
| A service build or deploy fails. | Only failure notifications |
| A Docker [image pull](deploying-an-image) fails. | Only failure notifications |
| A [cron job](cronjobs) execution fails. | Only failure notifications |
| A [one-off job](one-off-jobs) execution fails. | Only failure notifications |
| A running service becomes unhealthy. | Only failure notifications |
| A deploy successfully goes live. | All notifications |
| An unhealthy service becomes healthy. | All notifications |

To request notification support for additional events, please [submit a feature request](https://feedback.render.com/features).

## Setting workspace defaults

From your workspace home in the [Render Dashboard][dboard], click *Integrations > Notifications* in the left pane:

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From here, you can configure the following:

| Setting | Description |
|--------|--------|
| *Notification Destination* | Receive notifications via *Email*, *Slack*, or both. To receive via Slack, you must first [connect your Slack workspace](#connecting-to-slack). |
| *Default Service Notifications* | Specifies which [supported notifications](#supported-notifications) Render sends for your services. Options include: - *Only failure notifications.* Render sends notifications only for failures (includes failed deploys, cron jobs, and running services). - *All notifications.* Render sends _all_ supported notifications, including for successful deploys. - *None.* Render does not send any notifications. |
| *Preview Notifications* | If *Enabled*, Render sends the same set of notifications for a [service preview](service-previews) or [preview environment](preview-environments) that it does for the preview's base service. This setting requires a *Professional* workspace or higher. |

### Connecting to Slack

From your workspace's *Integrations > Notifications* page, click *Connect Slack* under the *Notification Destination* setting:

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Proceed through the authorization flow to connect your Slack account.

## Customizing per service

You can customize notification settings for an individual service. Doing so overrides your workspace's [default notification settings](#setting-workspace-defaults) for that service.

In the [Render Dashboard][dboard], go to your service's *Settings* page and scroll down to *Notifications*:

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For any setting, choose a value besides *Use workspace default* to customize the service's notification behavior.

After you customize notification settings for a service, that service appears in your workspace's *Integrations > Notifications* page, under *Notification Overrides*:

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