Testing Slack alerts should include some payload

[ivankube]

Describe the bug
Slack integration for Recurring updates is not working.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create new Recurring Updated alert with Slack web hook
2. Click "Test Alert"
3. Receive null payload

Expected behavior
Slack alert for Recurring Update should work.

Please share the support case, if any
https://kubecost.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/4096

[kwombach12]

@ivankube This is WAI for me. I get a test alert with the window, aggregation, and filters.

[ivankube]

@kwombach12 I believe we are missing data in this test alert.

For example, if I follow the same steps for Allocation budget alert, I receive:

{ "text": "This is a test Kubecost Budget Alert. No budgets have actually been exceeded.\nYou are receiving this alert because a set budget of USD100.00 has been exceeded.\n\nCluster Name: kc-demo-prod\n\n Namespace nginx-ingress\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace miketest\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace netapp-ingress\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace __unmounted__\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace aks-app1\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace qa-stage\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace staging-app\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace kubernetes-dashboard\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace cert-manager\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace audit-demo\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace kubecost-cloud\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace qa-prod\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace qa-dev\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace kubecost\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace demo-app\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace pacman\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace thanos\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace infra-kubecost\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace opencost\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace default\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace grafana\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace kube-system\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace acme-fitness\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace netapp-loadbalancer\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace ingress-nginx\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace nginx-mikem\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n Namespace monitoring\n Cost USD150.00\n % Overage 50.0%\n\n" }

[kwombach12]

@ivankube I believe that recurring alerts simply dont send data today when users send a test. @cliffcolvin please correct me if I'm wrong. I think it makes sense to send some data in the test message, and so I would consider this a feature request we can look to pickup in a future release

[pjaak]

+1 to having this as a feature request, would be really useful for us to see data when we send the test alert to slack

[chipzoller]

Hello, in an effort to consolidate our bug and feature request tracking, we are deprecating using GitHub to track tickets. If this issue is still outstanding and you have not done so already, please raise a request at https://support.kubecost.com/.