Slack connector overview - Amazon Q Business

Slack connector overview

The following table gives an overview of the Amazon Q Business Slack connector and its supported features.

Category Feature Support
Security Authentication type Token based authentication
Authentication credentials

  • Slack workspace ID

  • Either Slack Bot token or User token

    User token lets you make API requests on behalf of the user. Bot token lets you make API requests as a Slack bot.
Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Identity crawling Yes
VPC Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata No
Entities Yes. The following entities are supported:

  • Public channels

  • Private channels

  • Group messages

  • Private messages

  • Bot messages

  • Archived messages

See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.
Field mappings Yes. Supports default and custom field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Yes. The following filters are supported:

  • Crawl public channel

  • Crawl private channel

  • Crawl group messages

  • Crawl private messages

  • Crawl channel by type

  • Crawl channel by name

  • Including and excluding content by file type

  • Including and excluding content based on file name
Sync mode Supports full and incremental sync.
File types Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.
Crawled as a document

  • Each message

  • Each message attachment

  • Each channel post