For a long time, [Deploy](https://www.deployhq.com) has been able to send messages to your private chat system of choice (Hipchat, Slack, Campfire or Flowdock) to alert you to the success for failure of a deployment. Up until now, this message has been uncustomisable.

Today we're releasing a feature which will allow you to modify the format of the messages sent to your chat system. By deafult this will read Successful/Failed deployment of Git HTTP Test - a94a1c98 - a94a1c98 to Server01, however using our comprehensive list of variables you can customise your message to make it useful to your organisation.

![Configuring Slack](https://blog.deployhq.com/attachment/edc313f6-9520-485b-854f-fb9053422066/e-RL7vat.png)

As an added bonus, the new variables we've added to support chat notifications are available in Config Files and SSH Commands in your project.