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The notifications service component of Cloud Foundry
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Notifications other than email #15

Closed aegershman closed 5 years ago

aegershman commented 5 years ago

As a CF operator, in order to notify platform consumers of anything (but specifically important but short notifications like upcoming/ongoing platform upgrades), I'd like to be able to send notifications such that they could be rendered in a UI rather than via email.

Presumably this would be predicated on some UI client being able to receive / render notifications at all. I'm completely unaware if the Pivotal CF UI has an exposed endpoint to do this, if stratos has an ability to do this, etc...

... So I'm entirely talking out of my butt here. I imagine this would require many more moving parts than the notifications service. But I figured I'd put the idea out there.

This is just a spitball idea, so feel free to close this whenever. Thanks for your time 👍

cf-gitbot commented 5 years ago

We have created an issue in Pivotal Tracker to manage this. Unfortunately, the Pivotal Tracker project is private so you may be unable to view the contents of the story.

The labels on this github issue will be updated when the story is started.

AllenDuet commented 5 years ago

For UI representation an event model seems like a better approach for what you're suggesting. Loggregator supports an event type and Log cache presents a REST like interface that seems like a better pattern for what you are suggesting.

For things like state change those would be better represented as discreet events. Are you asking about interpreting events from metrics (like a service warning if disk space is low)?
Pivotal Event Alerts would be a better product for converting metrics to events and providing it out for visual representation.

aegershman commented 5 years ago

Very helpful, thank you for explaining that out. Honestly I was poorly articulating a desire to send notifications that would appear as something like a modal in an application-manager UI. Regardless your comments about loggregator & logcache are helpful, though.

Unfortunately I don't think I did a great job of expressing that, nor is this really the best place for it.

I'll go ahead and close this out. Thanks for your response and your time!