diff --git a/http/notification_endpoint_test.go b/http/notification_endpoint_test.go
index 63bfe125cd5..1157efaa64a 100644
--- a/http/notification_endpoint_test.go
+++ b/http/notification_endpoint_test.go
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ func TestService_handleGetNotificationEndpoints(t *testing.T) {
 									OrgID:  influxTesting.MustIDBase16Ptr("50f7ba1150f7ba11"),
 									Status: influxdb.Active,
 								},
-								URL: "http://example.com",
+								URL: "http://slack.com",
 							},
 							&endpoint.HTTP{
 								Base: endpoint.Base{
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ func TestService_handleGetNotificationEndpoints(t *testing.T) {
 									OrgID:  influxTesting.MustIDBase16Ptr("7e55e118dbabb1ed"),
 									Status: influxdb.Inactive,
 								},
-								URL:             "example.com",
+								URL:             "http://example.com",
 								Username:        influxdb.SecretField{Key: "http-user-key"},
 								Password:        influxdb.SecretField{Key: "http-password-key"},
 								AuthMethod:      "basic",
@@ -152,11 +152,11 @@ func TestService_handleGetNotificationEndpoints(t *testing.T) {
 			 "type": "slack",
 			 "token": "",
 		     "updatedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
-		     "url": "http://example.com"
+		     "url": "http://slack.com"
 		   },
 		   {
 		     "createdAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
-		     "url": "example.com",
+		     "url": "http://example.com",
 		     "id": "c0175f0077a77005",
 		     "labels": [
 		       {
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ func TestService_handleGetNotificationEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 									Name:   "hello",
 									Status: influxdb.Active,
 								},
-								URL:             "example.com",
+								URL:             "http://example.com",
 								Username:        influxdb.SecretField{Key: "http-user-key"},
 								Password:        influxdb.SecretField{Key: "http-password-key"},
 								AuthMethod:      "basic",
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ func TestService_handleGetNotificationEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 		  "createdAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
 		  "updatedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
 		  "id": "020f755c3c082000",
-		  "url": "example.com",
+		  "url": "http://example.com",
 		  "username": "secret: http-user-key",
 		  "password": "secret: http-password-key",
 		  "token":"",
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ func TestService_handlePostNotificationEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 					"orgID":           "6f626f7274697320",
 					"description":     "desc1",
 					"status":          "active",
-					"url":             "example.com",
+					"url":             "http://example.com",
 					"username":        "user1",
 					"password":        "password1",
 					"authMethod":      "basic",
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ func TestService_handlePostNotificationEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
     "members": "/api/v2/notificationEndpoints/020f755c3c082000/members",
     "owners": "/api/v2/notificationEndpoints/020f755c3c082000/owners"
   },
-  "url": "example.com",
+  "url": "http://example.com",
   "status": "active",
   "username": "secret: 020f755c3c082000-username",
   "password": "secret: 020f755c3c082000-password",
@@ -489,6 +489,44 @@ func TestService_handlePostNotificationEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 `,
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			name: "create a new notification endpoint with bad URL",
+			fields: fields{
+				Secrets: map[string]string{},
+				NotificationEndpointService: &mock.NotificationEndpointService{
+					CreateNotificationEndpointF: func(ctx context.Context, edp influxdb.NotificationEndpoint, userID platform.ID) error {
+						edp.SetID(influxTesting.MustIDBase16("020f755c3c082000"))
+						edp.BackfillSecretKeys()
+						return nil
+					},
+				},
+				OrganizationService: &mock.OrganizationService{
+					FindOrganizationF: func(ctx context.Context, f influxdb.OrganizationFilter) (*influxdb.Organization, error) {
+						return &influxdb.Organization{ID: influxTesting.MustIDBase16("6f626f7274697320")}, nil
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			args: args{
+				endpoint: map[string]interface{}{
+					"name":            "hello",
+					"type":            "http",
+					"orgID":           "6f626f7274697320",
+					"description":     "desc1",
+					"status":          "active",
+					"url":             "example.com",
+					"username":        "user1",
+					"password":        "password1",
+					"authMethod":      "basic",
+					"method":          "POST",
+					"contentTemplate": "template",
+				},
+			},
+			wants: wants{
+				statusCode:  http.StatusBadRequest,
+				contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
+				body:        `{"code":"invalid","message":"the provided url should match the standard url schema"}`,
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, tt := range tests {
@@ -796,7 +834,7 @@ func TestService_handleUpdateNotificationEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 					"orgID":  "020f755c3c082001",
 					"type":   "slack",
 					"token":  "",
-					"url":    "example.com",
+					"url":    "https://slack.com",
 				},
 			},
 			wants: wants{
@@ -815,7 +853,7 @@ func TestService_handleUpdateNotificationEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 		  "id": "020f755c3c082000",
 		  "orgID": "020f755c3c082001",
 		  "name": "example",
-		  "url": "example.com",
+		  "url": "https://slack.com",
           "type": "slack",
 		  "status": "active",
 		  "token": "",
diff --git a/notification/endpoint/http.go b/notification/endpoint/http.go
index 75cf1e66d09..d831f662988 100644
--- a/notification/endpoint/http.go
+++ b/notification/endpoint/http.go
@@ -133,6 +133,25 @@ func (s HTTP) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 		})
 }
 
+func (s *HTTP) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
+	type Alias HTTP
+	var a Alias
+
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &a); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if a.URL != "" {
+		if u, err := url.Parse(a.URL); err != nil || u.Scheme == "" || u.Host == "" {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the provided url should match the standard url schema")
+		}
+	}
+
+	*s = HTTP(a)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Type returns the type.
 func (s HTTP) Type() string {
 	return HTTPType
diff --git a/notification/endpoint/service/testing/service.go b/notification/endpoint/service/testing/service.go
index 408b18d82bc..028f94f5804 100644
--- a/notification/endpoint/service/testing/service.go
+++ b/notification/endpoint/service/testing/service.go
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpointByID(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL: "example-slack.com",
+						URL: "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{
 							Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID),
 						},
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpointByID(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpointByID(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.HTTP{
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", fourID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp4",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", fourID)},
 					},
 				},
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.HTTP{
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.HTTP{
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", fourID)},
 					},
 				},
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", fourID)},
 					},
 				},
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.HTTP{
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", fourID)},
 					},
 				},
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.HTTP{
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", fourID)},
 					},
 				},
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", fourID)},
 					},
 				},
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.HTTP{
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL:  "example-pagerduty.com",
+						ClientURL:  "https://example-pagerduty.com",
 						RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", threeID)},
 					},
 				},
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp1",
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.HTTP{
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp2",
 						},
-						URL:        "example-webhook.com",
+						URL:        "http://example-webhook.com",
 						Method:     http.MethodGet,
 						AuthMethod: "none",
 					},
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ func FindNotificationEndpoints(
 							Status: influxdb.Active,
 							Name:   "edp3",
 						},
-						ClientURL: "example-pagerduty.com", RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", threeID)},
+						ClientURL: "https://example-pagerduty.com", RoutingKey: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-routing-key", threeID)},
 					},
 				},
 			},
@@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ func UpdateNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ func UpdateNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ func PatchNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ func PatchNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ func DeleteNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ func DeleteNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ func DeleteNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@ func DeleteNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ func DeleteNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 					&endpoint.PagerDuty{
@@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@ func DeleteNotificationEndpoint(
 								UpdatedAt: timeGen2.Now(),
 							},
 						},
-						URL:   "example-slack.com",
+						URL:   "https://example-slack.com",
 						Token: influxdb.SecretField{Key: fmt.Sprintf("%s-token", oneID)},
 					},
 				},
diff --git a/notification/endpoint/slack.go b/notification/endpoint/slack.go
index f164475b00a..b5f69ad02db 100644
--- a/notification/endpoint/slack.go
+++ b/notification/endpoint/slack.go
@@ -77,6 +77,25 @@ func (s Slack) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 		})
 }
 
+func (s *Slack) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
+	type Alias Slack
+	var a Alias
+
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &a); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if a.URL != "" {
+		if u, err := url.Parse(a.URL); err != nil || u.Scheme == "" || u.Host == "" {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the provided url should match the standard url schema")
+		}
+	}
+
+	*s = Slack(a)
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Type returns the type.
 func (s Slack) Type() string {
 	return SlackType