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Have you considered providing an option to pipe the output to a Slack channel or something similar to that?

Haha. I don't know if this is satire or not, but in case it's not: You can pass any writable stream as the first argument and PySnooper will use it. So it should be easy to integrate with Slack or anything else.

It's not :) This way, I get to see the debug stream in real time, but separate from stdout.

You can output to file and use tail -f

Oh, yeah! Thanks for the suggestion!

Unsure if serious, but if you're looking for a crash reporter tool that integrates with Slack, you might be interested in something more like Sentry.

Yes, I was serious. I'm curious why you thought I was joking? cool-RR thought I was joking, as well, so I must be missing something... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks for the tip on Sentry -- I'll take a look!

Oh, just that "chat ops" is one of those goofy fads that seemed to flare up everywhere and burn itself out really quickly, so any mention of it immediately triggers my satire meter.

Quite apart from that, the tool described looks like something you'd use in an intensive debugging session, so it's hard for me to imagine how it would fit in with an alerting workflow.

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