On a schedule

Alert Slack when monday.com items get stuck

When an item on your monday.com board is marked Stuck, Slack gets a message with the owner and a link.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Slack, monday.com
AI: Not needed
Access: boards:read; chat:write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, check my Projects board in monday.com for items with status Stuck, and post each new one to #projects with the owner and a link.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Marking an item as Stuck on a monday.com board is meant to ask for help, but often nobody notices until the next status meeting. Days pass, and a small blocker becomes a missed deadline.

Posting stuck items in the team's Slack channel turns the status into a real request for help. Someone who can unblock it sees it within the hour.

What you get out of it

Blockers get seen
Stuck items appear where the team is talking, not only on a board people check weekly.
Faster unblocking
Managers and colleagues can step in the same day, which protects deadlines.
Owner and link included
Each message shows who owns the item and links straight to it, so help is one click away.
One alert per item
Items are only posted when they first become stuck, so the channel is not repeated every hour.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every hour ClickRuntime reads your monday.com board and finds items with the status Stuck.
It skips items it has already posted while they stay stuck.
Each newly stuck item is posted to your Slack channel with the owner and a link.
When an item leaves Stuck, it is forgotten, so a later block is posted again.

Before it runs live

Connect Slack, then invite the app to the channel (type /invite @ClickRuntime there)
Connect monday.com

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Alert Slack when monday.com items get stucktoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #projects🚧 Stuck: *Northwind data migration* – owner Priya northwind.monday.com/boards/…/pulses/…

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Google Sheets
Combine it with other Slack and monday.com steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

alert_slack_about_stuck_monday_com_items.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, notify

BOARD = 1234567890
ITEMS = """query ($board: [ID!]) { boards(ids: $board) { items_page(limit: 200) { items {
  id name url column_values { id text } } } } }"""
def monday(query, **variables):
    resp = http.post("https://api.monday.com/v2", json={"query": query, "variables": variables},
                     headers={"Authorization": credentials.secret("MONDAY_API_TOKEN"), "API-Version": "2024-10"})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return resp.json()["data"]

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    items = monday(ITEMS, board=[BOARD])["boards"][0]["items_page"]["items"]
    stuck = {}
    for i in items:
        c = {v["id"]: v["text"] for v in i["column_values"]}
        if c.get("status") == "Stuck":
            stuck[i["id"]] = (i, c)
    alerted = set(state.get("alerted") or [])
    for item_id, (i, c) in stuck.items():
        if item_id not in alerted:
            notify.slack(f"🚧 Stuck: *{i['name']}* – owner {c.get('person') or 'unassigned'}\n{i['url']}", channel="#projects")
    state.set("alerted", list(stuck))
    return {"stuck": len(stuck), "new": len(set(stuck) - alerted)}

FAQ

Common questions

Can it watch several boards?

Yes. List the boards, and each message says which board the item is on.

What if an item gets stuck again later?

Once it leaves Stuck and later returns, it is posted again.

Can it tag the owner in Slack?

Yes, if monday.com and Slack use the same email addresses. Ask your AI assistant to add mentions.

What permissions does it need?

boards:read; chat:write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (on a schedule). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

On a schedule