Chat outside the dashboard

You do not have to open the dashboard to ask the Sazabi agent a question. Slack and Microsoft Teams are two of the surfaces a thread works across: mention the agent in a channel and it investigates and replies right there, with a link back to the full thread in Sazabi. By the end of this guide you will have asked a question from chat and confirmed the reply. Setup takes a few minutes if the integration is already connected.

Prerequisites

• The Slack or Microsoft Teams integration must be connected for your organization, under Settings > Integrations. These are organization-level integrations. See Slack and Microsoft Teams integration pages to connect one.
• The Sazabi bot must be present in the channel you want to use — add it to the channel before mentioning it.

Both connect through a browser OAuth flow you authorize under Settings > Integrations in the dashboard. Slack is connect-from-the-dashboard only — the CLI cannot start its browser flow, so use the dashboard to connect it. Microsoft Teams can also be connected from the Sazabi CLI with sazabi integrations connect teams, which opens the authorization page and waits for it to complete (see CLI reference); if the CLI reports that Microsoft Teams can't be connected from the CLI in your environment, connect it in the dashboard instead. Adding the bot to a channel and mentioning it happen in Slack or Microsoft Teams — there is no CLI equivalent for those chat-side steps. Once connected, sazabi integrations list shows the connection (filter with --provider slack or --provider teams).

Slack

In a channel where the Sazabi bot is present, mention it with your question:

@Sazabi why are checkout errors elevated in the last hour?

The agent acknowledges the message, investigates, and replies in the thread with what it found. Continue with follow-up messages in the same Slack thread. Sazabi also supports direct messages — message the bot directly to start a private thread.

Microsoft Teams

Add the Sazabi bot to a standard Microsoft Teams channel and mention it with your question:

@Sazabi show me recent errors in the orders service

The agent replies in the channel with its findings. Microsoft Teams chat works in standard channels; private and shared channels are not supported.

How chat threads relate to dashboard threads

A conversation you start from Slack or Microsoft Teams is a normal Sazabi thread — the same thread you would see in the dashboard, with the same messages, tool calls, and artifacts. The agent's reply includes a View in Sazabi link that opens that thread in the dashboard, where you can see the full evidence trail and continue there if you prefer.

Verify

Confirm the agent answers from chat and links back to the dashboard.

1. In a channel where the Sazabi bot is present, post: @Sazabi find the most recent ERROR log in this project and summarize it.
2. The agent reacts to acknowledge, then replies in the thread with a summary grounded in your logs.
3. The reply includes a View in Sazabi link. Open it and confirm it opens the same thread in the dashboard.

If the bot does not respond, confirm the integration is connected under Settings > Integrations and that the bot has been added to the channel.

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