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Alerts - Allow the email subject and body to be customized

I want to be able to customize the email subject and body for DPA alerts, including choosing dynamic data fields so I can deliver the information users need in the order they need it.

  • For everyone wanting to customize DPA Alert Emails, DPA 2019.4 now provides the ability to:

    1. Create multiple Alert Email Templates with custom subject and body content
    2. Designate a Default Email Template
    3. Configure an alert to use a specific email template or use the currently designated default
    4. Add variables to subject or body content via drag-n-drop
      • The variables will be replaced with appropriate values when the alert is generated
      • Include new Custom Property Variables in email templates
    5. Generate previews for an alert's assigned email template and each of its potential severities to view the result and/or test out any parsers that may receive the emails

    Check out this long-awaited feature and more at Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) 2019.4 Is Now Generally Available

  • It would've been nice if there is a way to change the email format (HTML) that DPA sends out when alert is triggered. For now it seems that it sends and email only in plain-text format. Sending email in HTML format would help to customize its body using HTML tags rather than plain-text output.

  • I love DPA - it's been useful for us.

    However, the anemic alerting capabilities/customizations in DPA are really painful at this point. It especially suffers when compared to baked-in NPM alerting, obviously.

    How anemic, you ask?

    Let's say I want to report on a commit time threshold - say, 20 msec.

    Here's one example of a small thing I can't do.

    I cannot move the actual triggering data (let's say it's 35msec) to the top of the message so people on phones don't have to scroll.

    I cannot insert a variable or other data into the subject so I can see the metric that broke the threshold.

    I can't add text in any meaningful way.

    That's anemic. I know FRs on DPA are slow to gather steam, but all we're looking for is some ability to customize these alerts.

  • Closed another case as a duplicate to this one

    Please vote here.

  • Similar suggested feature here. Just linking them.