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Brian_Mills's avatar
11 years ago

Alert message to include other data(points)

There needs to be a way in an alert message template to use a second value from a query (another DataPoint). For example, if there is a long running query, I\'d like to have the message contain the query itself, not just a message that says, \'\'A query took a long time (2000 seconds)\'\'. The query is long gone by then. Not easy to resolve.

  • It'd be great to have this feature. Sometimes it're really necessary to specify one datapoints value in alert message generated by another datapoint.

  • It would be great if all data points could be interpolated into the alert message, not only the data point that triggered the alert message.  Perhaps something along the lines of ##DATAPOINT[<name>]##?

  • Has anyone come up with a work-around or anything for this? I have a situation where it would be super useful for alerts regarding a firmware update to provide more information. The API I'm using returns a boolean "upgradable" key that I alert on, but would love to be able to put in the alert message something like "Update available (from ##current_version## -> ##new_version##)", where those are tokens for other datapoints already defined.