For my small personal projects, I usually use Slack as a central notification and logging system to help me keep track of the state of my applications.

Below is a simple bash function that I use a lot in many of my bash scripts in order to send a notification to a Slack channel:

######
# Send notification messages to a Slack channel by using Slack webhook
# 
# input parameters:
#   $1 - message level: 'INFO' | 'WARN' | 'ERROR'
#   $2 - pretext
#   $3 - main text
######
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=xxx
SLACK_CHANNEL=xxx

send_notification() {
  local color='good'
  if [ $1 == 'ERROR' ]; then
    color='danger'
  elif [ $1 == 'WARN' ]; then
    color = 'warning'
  fi
  local message="payload={\"channel\": \"#$SLACK_CHANNEL\",\"attachments\":[{\"pretext\":\"$2\",\"text\":\"$3\",\"color\":\"$color\"}]}"

  curl -X POST --data-urlencode "$message" ${SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL}
}

To make it work, you can copy the snippet to your script. Then just fill the SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL with the webhook url you get from Slack, and the channel name you want the message to be sent to in the SLACK_CHANNEL variable.

After the simple setting, you can call the function like this:

send_notification 'INFO' "Message Title" "some long text message"

Hope you will like it!