Error messages and Alerts should include contextual and actionable information
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Description
##### ISSUE TYPE
* Improvement Request
##### COMPONENT NAME
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UI and Alert messages
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##### CLOUDSTACK VERSION
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14.7.2
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##### CONFIGURATION
##### OS / ENVIRONMENT
NA
##### SUMMARY
Alert messages should include more contextual and actionable information instead of various IDs to address the issue quickly.
##### STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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During error conditions and alerts
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##### EXPECTED RESULTS
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Error messages should include account, domain, template, storage, VM names, and any other easily referenced information.
"Template 06cfc10e-a07d-4cee-8929-ca98946c60ab Windows 2022 Data Center failed to upload. Error details: Maximum number of resources of type secondary_storage for account _accountname_ has exceeded"
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##### ACTUAL RESULTS
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"Template 06cfc10e-a07d-4cee-8929-ca98946c60ab failed to upload. Error details: Maximum number of resources of type secondary_storage for account/project has exceeded"
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the CloudStack UI and Alert messages produced during error conditions, using the template-upload example in the issue as the reference case. Review where the current ID-only messages are generated and map the contextual names and actionable details that should be included; done means the affected alerts consistently provide those details.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- backend, cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100