diff --git a/changes/issue-2434-change-webhook b/changes/issue-2434-change-webhook
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6825773cff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/issue-2434-change-webhook
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+* Update key text for webhook from message to text to support Slack out of the box
diff --git a/frontend/components/forms/admin/AppConfigForm/AppConfigForm.jsx b/frontend/components/forms/admin/AppConfigForm/AppConfigForm.jsx
index a677407a17..e018082f1e 100644
--- a/frontend/components/forms/admin/AppConfigForm/AppConfigForm.jsx
+++ b/frontend/components/forms/admin/AppConfigForm/AppConfigForm.jsx
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ class AppConfigForm extends Component {
     }
 
     const json = {
-      message:
+      text:
         "More than X% of your hosts have not checked into Fleet for more than Y days. You’ve been sent this message because the Host status webhook is enabled in your Fleet instance.",
       data: {
         unseen_hosts: 1,
diff --git a/server/webhooks/host_status.go b/server/webhooks/host_status.go
index a5aa322230..737e9d503c 100644
--- a/server/webhooks/host_status.go
+++ b/server/webhooks/host_status.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func TriggerHostStatusWebhook(
 			percentUnseen, appConfig.WebhookSettings.HostStatusWebhook.DaysCount,
 		)
 		payload := map[string]interface{}{
-			"message": message,
+			"text": message,
 			"data": map[string]interface{}{
 				"unseen_hosts": unseen,
 				"total_hosts":  total,
diff --git a/server/webhooks/host_status_test.go b/server/webhooks/host_status_test.go
index ea57410251..660ab568ae 100644
--- a/server/webhooks/host_status_test.go
+++ b/server/webhooks/host_status_test.go
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ func TestTriggerHostStatusWebhook(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, TriggerHostStatusWebhook(context.Background(), ds, kitlog.NewNopLogger(), ac))
 	assert.Equal(
 		t,
-		`{"data":{"days_unseen":2,"total_hosts":10,"unseen_hosts":6},"message":"More than 60.00% of your hosts have not checked into Fleet for more than 2 days. You’ve been sent this message because the Host status webhook is enabled in your Fleet instance."}`,
+		`{"data":{"days_unseen":2,"total_hosts":10,"unseen_hosts":6},"text":"More than 60.00% of your hosts have not checked into Fleet for more than 2 days. You’ve been sent this message because the Host status webhook is enabled in your Fleet instance."}`,
 		requestBody,
 	)
 	requestBody = ""