Microsoft Teams notifications

You can integrate Microsoft Teams notifications with GitLab and display notifications about GitLab projects in Microsoft Teams. To integrate the services, you must:

1. Configure Microsoft Teams to enable a webhook to listen for changes.
2. Configure your GitLab project to push notifications to the Microsoft Teams webhook.

Configure Microsoft Teams

To configure Microsoft Teams to receive notifications from GitLab, you must have a workflow that accepts the GitLab webhook payload and posts messages to your channel. You can create a:

• Power Automate workflow using a template.
• Custom workflow.

Create a Power Automate workflow

1. In Microsoft Teams, next to the chat you want to receive notifications in, select More chat options ( ).
2. Select Workflows.
3. Search for and select the Send webhook alerts to a channel workflow template.
4. Under Parameters, enter the team and channel, and select Save.
5. After the workflow is created, on the Workflows dialog, select Copy webhook link.
6. Copy the webhook URL provided. You use this webhook URL to configure GitLab.
7. Close the Workflows dialog.

Modify the workflow to accept GitLab payloads

The default workflow template expects the Adaptive Card format, but GitLab sends the Office 365 Connector Card format. To modify the workflow:

1. Go to Power Automate and sign in with your Microsoft account.
2. Select My flows and find the workflow you created.
3. Select Edit to modify the workflow.
4. Select the existing Post card in a chat or channel action and delete it.
5. Select Add an action and search for Post message in a chat or channel.
6. Configure the action:
   • Post as: Flow bot
   • Post in: Channel
   • Team: Select your team
   • Channel: Select your channel
   • Message: On the right of the text box, select Insert expression and enter triggerOutputs()?['body']?['attachments'][0]?['content']. Select Add.
7. Select Save.

Create a custom workflow

For more control over the message format, create a custom workflow:

1. Go to Power Automate, and select Create > Instant cloud flow.
2. Name your workflow and select When an HTTP request is received as the trigger, then select Create.
3. Select Add an action and search for Post message in a chat or channel (Microsoft Teams).
4. In the trigger configuration, leave the JSON schema empty to accept any payload.
5. Configure the action:
   • Post as: Flow bot
   • Post in: Channel
   • Team: Select your team
   • Channel: Select your channel
   • Message: On the right of the text box, select Insert expression and enter triggerOutputs()?['body']?['attachments'][0]?['content']. Select Add.
6. Select Save.
7. In the workflow, select the manual trigger. Copy the HTTP URL from the trigger. You use this URL to configure GitLab.

Configure your GitLab project

After you configure Microsoft Teams to receive notifications, you must configure GitLab to send the notifications:

1. Sign in to GitLab as an administrator.
2. On the top bar, select Search or go to and find your project.
3. Select Settings > Integrations.
4. Select Microsoft Teams notifications.
5. To enable the integration, select Active.
6. In the Trigger section, select the checkbox next to each event to enable it:
   • Push
   • Issue
   • Confidential issue
   • Merge request
   • Note
   • Confidential note
   • Tag push
   • Pipeline
   • Wiki page
7. In Webhook, paste the URL you copied when you created a Power Automate or custom workflow.
8. Optional. If you enable the pipeline trigger, select the Notify only broken pipelines checkbox to push notifications only when pipelines break.
9. Optional. If you enable the pipeline trigger, select the Notify only when status changes checkbox to send notifications only when the pipeline status for the ref changes.
10. Select the branches you want to send notifications for.
11. Select Save changes.

Related topics

• Microsoft Power Automate documentation
• Microsoft Teams create incoming webhooks documentation