Won't this be far too noisy?

Filter to the handful of features that actually predict expansion; everything else streams to the warehouse without an alert.

Can I spot free users hitting paid features?

The plan field rides along — branch on it to flag free-plan users leaning on paid surfaces, a clean upsell trigger.

How do I roll this up per account?

enrich.entity attaches the account id so usage aggregates cleanly in Postgres by company, not just by user.

ingestlayer/recipes/v0.4

Track feature usage in Slack

Watch the features that signal expansion — exports, API calls, integrations — and route the moments that hint a customer is ready for more.

01source

sourcesdk.eventTypeScript SDK

matchfeature.used

02pipeline · 2 steps

01CTLfilter.matchfeature in {export, api, webhook}
02ENRenrich.entityuser → account · plan · owner

03destinations · 1

toslackSlack
channel#alerts

the event

You emit feature.used with this shape. The TypeScript SDK keeps the call type-safe, and the event is stored whole — so every field below is available to the pipeline by name.

user_idstring
featurestringfeature key
countnumberuses in window
planstring

emit it

From your code with the TypeScript SDK — or any language over the REST endpoint and signed webhook ingress.

emit feature.used

import { ingest } from "@ingestlayer/sdk";

await ingest("feature.used", {
  user_id: ctx.user.id,
  feature: "csv.export",
  count:   1,
  plan:    ctx.user.plan,
});

route it to Slack

Post to any channel in your workspace. Connect once with OAuth, pick the channel per pipeline.

01
connect your workspace
Authorize the ingestlayer Slack app over OAuth from the destinations page. We hold only a channel-scoped bot token, in-region, in the same KMS as your other credentials.
02
pick a channel
Choose any public channel, or invite the bot to a private one. The channel is set per pipeline, so different events can land in different places.
03
map the message
Reference event fields with $event.* in the message template. The default renders a titled block with the event name and its key fields.

in slackdelivered

┌─ #alerts ──────────────────────────────┐
│  ingestlayer  APP                       │
│  user.signed_up                         │
│  email   ada@acme.com                   │
│  plan    pro                            │
│  source  marketing-site                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

notes

Slack rate-limits to roughly one message per second per channel; bursts are queued and retried, never dropped.
The bot must be a member of a private channel before it can post there — invite it explicitly.
Block Kit caps a message at 50 blocks and 3000 characters per text field; oversized events are truncated with a link to the full payload.

questions

Won't this be far too noisy?: Filter to the handful of features that actually predict expansion; everything else streams to the warehouse without an alert.
Can I spot free users hitting paid features?: The plan field rides along — branch on it to flag free-plan users leaning on paid surfaces, a clean upsell trigger.
How do I roll this up per account?: enrich.entity attaches the account id so usage aggregates cleanly in Postgres by company, not just by user.

build this pipeline or read the quickstart →