About Notifications

DefectDojo keeps you up to date in a variety of ways. Notifications can be sent for upcoming Engagements, user Mentions, SLA expiry, and other events in the software.

This article contains an overview of notifications at both System-wide and Personal levels.

Notification Types#

DefectDojo handles notifications in two different ways::

• System-Wide Notifications are sent to all users.
• Personal Notifications are set by individual users, and will be received in addition to any System-Wide Notifications.

In both cases, Role-Based Access Control rules apply, so users will not receive activity notifications for Products or Product Types (or their related objects) which they don’t have access to.

Notification Delivery Methods#

There are four delivery methods for DefectDojo notifications:

• DefectDojo can share 🔔 Alerts, stored as a list in the DefectDojo interface
• DefectDojo can send notifications to an Email address
• DefectDojo can send notifications to Slack, in either a shared or individual channel
• DefectDojo can also send notifications to Microsoft Teams in a shared channel

Notifications can be sent to multiple destinations simultaneously.

Receiving Slack and Teams notifications will require you to have a working integration. For more info, see our articles:

• Slack Integration
• Teams Integration

Next Steps:

• Learn more about DefectDojo’s internal 🔔 Alerts
• Set up a Slack integration for DefectDojo
• Set up a Teams integration for DefectDojo