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description: Send Report URI Watch alerts to a Google Chat space using an incoming webhook.
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# Google Chat

Google Chat spaces accept incoming webhooks that take a `{"text": "..."}` body - the same shape our payload carries - so alerts arrive as messages with nothing to configure in between.

## Creating the webhook URL

1. Open the Google Chat space you want alerts in.
2. From the space name at the top, select **Apps & integrations > Webhooks**.
3. Select **Add webhook**, give it a name, and save.
4. Copy the URL.

It looks like:

    https://chat.googleapis.com/v1/spaces/SPACE_ID/messages?key=KEY&token=TOKEN

Both credentials are in the URL as query parameters, so no header is needed.

## Sending alerts to Google Chat

Open the **Config** modal on the watcher you want alerts from, enable **Send Webhook alerts**, and paste the URL into **Target webhook URI**.

## Things to watch for

- **Paste the URL complete, including `?key=` and `&token=`.** Everything after the `?` is the credential. A URL truncated at the question mark authenticates as nobody and the post fails.
- The `token` value must be kept secret - it is what authorises posting to the space.
- Webhooks can only be added to spaces, not to direct messages.
- A webhook posts to the space it was created in. For alerts in a different space, create another webhook and point the relevant watchers at it.

## Official documentation

[Google - Send messages to Google Chat with incoming webhooks](https://developers.google.com/workspace/chat/quickstart/webhooks)

## Start Monitoring with Report URI

**Already using us?** Add the webhook to your space, then paste its URL into any watcher's Config modal.

**New to Report URI?** Watch products and webhooks are available on Business plans and higher.

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