influxdata / influxdata/kapacitor
Customize alert message in topic handler
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Description
Just like alert filtering using the *match* directive, it would be nice if kapacitor would allow for custom message formatting to benefit from various alert target specific formats.
When sending to slack URLs can be embedded like `` while this is not suited for other alert handlers.
See this community discussion for more details:
https://community.influxdata.com/t/handler-specific-message-formatting/4722
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the topic handler and read the linked community discussion for the proposed handler-specific message formatting. Define how custom messages should be selected and formatted for different alert targets, then verify that Slack-style links can coexist with formats suitable for other handlers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100