Pipe Security Alerts Into Slack — With Footage Attached

Rhombus + Claude Series — Tying Into the Enterprise

Your security team doesn’t live in the camera dashboard. Nobody does. They live in Slack, where their messages are, their incidents are tracked, and their team operates.

So when an alert fires in the VMS, what happens? Usually nothing — until someone notices the email, opens the dashboard, screenshots the alert, and pastes it into the relevant Slack channel. By the time the team is actually looking at it, ten or fifteen minutes have passed. For a real incident, that delay is the difference between response and post-mortem.

The problem isn’t that people aren’t paying attention. It’s that the alert and the place where the team would act on it live in two different applications.

Rhombus exposes alerts as structured data with attachable media. Anything that can post to Slack can deliver an alert with full context.

For the developers:

With Claude and the Rhombus plugin, the alert pipeline is a scheduled prompt:

“Every time a new alert fires at the data center, post it to #security-ops in Slack with the clip and a one-line summary.”

Claude pulls the alert, the thumbnail, and the video — then posts everything to the channel.

The payoff: Alerts stop being something your team checks when they remember to. They become part of the same conversation the team is already having, in the same tool they’re already using. Response times collapse, coverage improves, and the dashboard stops being a single point of failure for whether anyone noticed.