Adding Label Values to Alert Notifications – How is this done?

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#1

Hi all, had a question about adding alerts.

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it’s suggested that the query triggering the alert can have labels from the query templated into the alert message. As per the documentation, this is how:

Refer to the alert query labels in the alert rule name and/or alert notification message field by using the ${Label} syntax.

Who knows where the ${Label} was created? Thanks so much.

#2

welcome to the :grafana: forum, @df1242636102

first question: the docs you linked are for legacy alerting. You should check if you are using legacy alerting or the new unified alerting platform. What version are you on?

#3

I am using legacy alerting

#4

With the Unified Alerting, you can extract labels out of the metric name field. It’s not pretty, but it works. Here’s an example where I have the metrics in the format: diamond.$dc.$role.$host.*

dc: {{ reReplaceAll "^diamond\\.([^.]+).*" "$1" $labels.name  }}
role: {{ reReplaceAll "^diamond\\.[^.]+\\.[^.]+\\.([^.]+).*" "$1" $labels.name  }}
host: {{ reReplaceAll "^diamond\\.[^.]+\\.[^.]+\\.([^.]+).*" "$1" $labels.name  }}

You can then use those labels for silences and notification policies.