Use Tags to determine Notification

[derekoharrow]

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🏷️ Feature Request Type

Settings

🔖 Feature description

Tags seem to have changed in V2 - in V1 they use to have a tag and a value, now it just seems to be a tag.

This seems an ideal opportunity to start to use tags for other things.

In this instance, it would be great to have a Setting on a Notification that applies that notification to any monitor with a specific tag.

e.g. I could create a tag called "Notify Me", and then in my Pushover notification settings have that notification apply to any monitors with the Notify Me tag - this would save having to setup notifications on every monitor individually.

✔️ Solution

Add the ability to list tags against Notification agents so that those agents automatically apply to any monitor with those tags.

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[CommanderStorm]

Tangling the notification and the Tag system seem like a really strange choice. I don't think that this is a good choice and would add a ton of issues from users not knowing where their notifications are coming from.

[CommanderStorm]

You are likely looking for config templates or bulk editing instead..

[derekoharrow]

Tangling the notification and the Tag system seem like a really strange choice. I don't think that this is a good choice and would add a ton of issues from users not knowing where their notifications are coming from.

I disagree. If Tags cannot be used for things like this, then what is their value, other than cosmetic?

I have over 170 monitors and setting the notifications for them individually is painful to say the least.

Even with a bulk editor you'd need to decide what notifications to enable for each and, like with Maintenance windows, ensure you have selected every monitor you want individually which is really prone to error. (In fact, Notification windows would be another good use of tags).

Using tags is the perfect solution and choosing good tag names such as "notify-p1" easily gets around the issue of knowing what triggers what.

Coming from an Enterprise IT monitoring background, manually configuring each individual monitors notifications is painful at best and very error prone. Tags would be a simple and effective way to automate much of that.