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Kris_Wolton's avatar
12 years ago

Alert Rules Simulator

Hi,
I think it would be great to have a simulator for alert rules. Without an actual event occurring it's very difficult to test the rules.

  • Something like...

    Alert : Critical Alert

    Alert Type : Windows Event

    Customer : XYZ

    Time : 14:00

    This alert would go to support email & Bob SMS

  • If you go to a host in the hosts tab, select the tool next to an Event Source, and pick Manage Alerts, there is a button Show Alert Routing on the form that pops up. This does (I think) exactly what you are asking for. 

    Correct me if I'm misunderstanding...

  • Hi,

    Thanks for the reply, yes i have seen that feature before and it does indeed give me the information i need, however you have to go hunting a bit for it. It would be great to be able to simulate an alert and then see which alert it triggers. It's not an essential requirement but would be a great feature in my book.

  • The "Show Alert Routing" is nice, but it only lets you act on one data point for one instance at a time. I'd like to have an API call that would run every data point for every instance through the same simulation and report back to me a graph representation (maybe in the DOT language how they're all connected. Then I can filter and visualize this on my side.

  • I started a chat under ticket 119191 and discussed this with Seth. I would like to +1 this for your next roadmap. I want to be able to see what alerts "would fire" without enabling the alerts. If I add 10 devices, I want to QUICKLY see how many would fire if I enabled them. No hunting, no slow rollouts.

    Maybe a report with applied thresholds and current values with clear indicators what alert level the value is within at the report runtime. 

     

  • Would be nice to have a form in the Alert Rules section where we can do tests.