First, I have been trying for days to figure out what should be a very simple, straight-forward task - Create a human readable message of a firing alert. In my case the alerts are going to either email or MS-Teams. Grafana official documentation is un-clear and inadequate. The video posted does n…

Hey there, I came across this post today and wanted to mention that we’ve recently revamped the Alerting documentation for notification templates. The new docs include a much broader range of common examples and clearer structure: Templates introduction Template annotations and labels (plus other…

I came back to see if anything has been done to improve documentation for Alert Manager (AM) templating after starting the topic in November. Hey, looks like Grafana took its users issues to heart! Clicked the link to see what’s new – silly me. Documentation is for the next version of Grafana. F…

Hi! Thanks for the feedback! I think there is some misunderstanding on some of the points here. I hope I can clarify it below! Change the design of notifications in instant messaging services such as Slack and Microsoft Teams does not refer to the text in the notification, but refers to changing …

anyone? im stuck with this issue

so since no one answered, this is what i could do to workaround the issue. here is my message template which is working for me so far. i may need to add more things to it later if need be. hope it could help others. {{ define "Message-Template" }} {{ $summary:= "" }} {{ $description:= "" }} {{ $run…

Hi! Wanted to ask for help @georgerobinson Do You have any idea how Value field could be sorted into more readable information? For example in old grafana (I think version 7, but not sure because recently started to work here) the Alert notification was coming to teams in something like this: […

Please feel free to have a look at templates I shared to help members setup Grafana alerting. [image] Working configuration example for alerts templating - Telegram and Slack Alerting Hi Grafana community! I have spent a lot of time to configure templates of my alerts, a …

Thanks, but this is not helping for me, as Teams does not support HTML? Or I need to upgrade to 9.3.2?

Teams is actually supported in latest version (contact point name is Microsoft Teams). You only have to adapt the markdown characters in the templates, you can look at the difference between Telegram (supports HTML) and Slack (own markdown). Teams markdown seems very similar to Slack: Use Markdown…

Upgraded to 9.3.6 and still Value field prints out like sh :smiley: t Can someone please explain how to print values in normal view, not like this? At least sort them [Screenshot 2023-02-09 at 16.57.33] @bLd759 @grant2 @georgerobinson please check

Hi @twocats , it looks like you might be using a custom template as the Value field changed in 9.3.0?

Documentation of Alert Templating in Serious Need of Improvement!

Grafana Alerting

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Please feel free to have a look at templates I shared to help members setup Grafana alerting.

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