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name: event-notifications-en-test-destination
title: Testing destinations
description: Maintaining the health and integrity of your connections is paramount. Making sure that your destinations deliver events reliably and the connection to the third-party apps is always up to date, is vital. To verify that the connection to your destination is correct, you can run a test.
last-updated: 2024-02-21
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# Testing destinations
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Maintaining the health and integrity of your connections is paramount. Making sure that your destinations deliver events reliably and the connection to the third-party apps is always up to date, is vital. To verify that the connection to your destination is correct, you can run a test.
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Currently the following destinations support this functionality:

1. Slack
2. PagerDuty
3. ServiceNow
4. Microsoft® Teams
5. IBM Cloud Code Engine
6. IBM Cloud Object Storage
7. Webhook
8. App Configuration

## Before you begin
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Before you can start testing your destinations, you must have the following prerequisites in place:

* A valid destination configuration.
* Access to the Event Notifications console or the valid credentials for the API calls.

## Testing your destination
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1. From your Event Notifications instance, click **Destinations**.
1. For the destination that you want to test, click the **Options** menu and select **Test**. Wait for the test to finish.
1. When the test is complete, review your results. The results typically include the following information:

   - **Status**: Whether the test is successful or failed.
   - **Response Code**: If there is a test failure, the response code from the end destination client is returned.
   - **Response Message**: If there is a test failure, the response message from the end destination client is returned.
   - **Destination Activity**: If the test is successful, a test event is delivered to the destination. The activity varies by destination type: a new message is created for Slack, Webhook, and Microsoft® Teams; a new incident is created for PagerDuty and ServiceNow; a new invocation occurs for IBM Cloud Code Engine; and a new object is created in the specified bucket for IBM Cloud Object Storage.