Custom measurements not available in metric alerts

[JLuse]

Environment

SaaS (https://sentry.io/)

Steps to Reproduce

Description: When adding a custom metric, you are unable to select it as an option in metric alerts.

Custom metric:

Alert options:

Steps:

1. Send custom metric with a transaction.
2. Create alert -> select Custom Metric
3. Attempt to select metric from dropdown

Expected Result

Custom metric to be utilized in alert

Actual Result

Unable to select custom measurements besides the predefined options

Product Area

Alerts

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[getsantry[bot]]

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Routing to @getsentry/product-owners-performance for triage ⏲️

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[nanoburd]

@JLuse what was the use case the customer was trying to do here?

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[guiquintelas]

@nanoburd

@JLuse what was the use case the customer was trying to do here?

Hey, customer here! The goal is to create alerting based on the custom.waiting_time custom measurement and many others. We're trying to use Sentry to monitor our internal job queue. So we have many metrics that don't fit into the existing ones.

Another use case is to use custom metrics as a way to filter down our transactions. Not sure if it's related to this issue thought ...

We currently have:

Solving this issue allows us to finally stop jamming data into our transaction names:

[brentc]

Thanks for this additional context. I'm adding this to our backlog for now and we'll provide an update when we have more information.

[nanoburd]

Yup this is likely something we can work on, I think this is valuable. Thanks for bringing this up!~