Alert Condition Must Exist for as an Alert Action Variable

ryan.davis26

In alert actions, the ability to have the current alert's "Condition Must Exist For" as an available variable in alert trigger/reset actions.

Would be amazing to say, as an example, (please excuse the pseudo variables...)  "Disk ${DiskName} has had ${CriticalRemainingSpaceThreshold} of remaining space for the last ${ConditionMustExistFor}"

Where ${ConditionMustExistFor} would contain the Integer as well as the string duration ( I would even be happy if these two were separate variables ) So, "15 Minutes" [seconds, hours, days...]

bhumphrey

We had talked about using custom properties for this, so teams within our organization can manage their own alerts and Orion administrators can simply create a standard set of alerts that reference drop downs on each monitored object. The teams then manage their own drop downs and we don't have to mess with alerts anymore. Here's an example:

Drop down: Alerting Priority (none, p1, p2, p3, p4)

Drop down: PagerDuty Team (none, system, application, network)

Drop down: Down Alert Delay - Minutes (15, 30, 60, 1440)

Then in an alert, condition must exist for would reference 'Down Alert Delay - Minutes' as a minute-based variable.