I am attempting to create a message template for my alerts. My goal is a simplified message using labels. I will paste my template below and the message I receive in slack. The ‘variable’, ‘location’, etc are names of labels. {{ define "Alerting Template" }} Alert: {{ .Labels.variable }} on {{ .Lab…

[image] melori.arellano: Edited this solution to add the most common answers in this thread in one place, including template functions and labels with dots in the name - read through to the end for those I came across this post today, and since this thread has seen a lot of activity, I wanted…

@milinpatel13298 Yes, if you create a custom template for your alert messages, you should be able to include (in that custom template) the default annotations like Summary, Description, SilenceURL, etc.

@grant2 Thank you for replying so quickly. Would that be by modifying this to add {{ .Annotations.Summary }} and such? If so, how are you able to handle the space in “Runbook URL”? [image] melori.arellano: {{ define "myalert" }} [{{.Status}}] {{ .Labels.alertname }} {{ .Annotations.Alert…

Here is my template: {{ define "slack.body" }} {{- range .Alerts -}} {{ if gt (len .Annotations) 0 }} *Summary*: {{ .Annotations.summary }} *Description*: {{ .Annotations.description }} {{ end }} {{ end }} {{ end }} For Runbook URL, I have never used/tried that but acc. to this , the syntax is runb…

@grant2 Thanks again! That’s interesting! So, then theoretically, I should be able to use the label/variables in my Summary and Description annotations and then bring them into my email message without having to creating a custom AlertValues annotation from the example shown by @melori.arellano , a…

Hi @grant2 I was trying to test this so I went and created a Grafana Cloud instance for myself since I do not have admin privileges at work. I have realized that it is possible to parse label values without even needing to create any custom message templates. All I did was use the variables in the …

Hi! I’m afraid the preview button cannot be used to preview custom labels and annotations (with or without templating) because the preview button is an estimation of the alert condition in the user interface, and doesn’t use alerting to expand custom labels and annotations. We know that this is an i…

HI @georgerobinson Thank you for the quick response. I think there is a misunderstanding. The Preview Alerts content was just to provide context so that the content in the Descrption annotation made sense. [image] milinpatel13298: {{ with $values }} {{ $values.B }} value found for {{ $values…

Hi! Yes this feature is available in all versions of Grafana 9.x.

@gregbeyer I am working on consolidating this information into an official tutorial and have shared the post with our doc writers. They’ve started to add the information into official docs. The community is so helpful for us to learn where people get stuck and where our docs can use improvement - t…

How To Use Alert Message Templates in Grafana

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@milinpatel13298 I posted a similiar question here. Give me a hint If you succed. Thanks.

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