Can alert configuration take in parameter?

[yzhang2017]

We are configuring alerts on wavefront for multiple environments, and repeating ourselves by creating / cloning multiple alerts and make adjustments. It is difficult to make changes as there are many alerts to modify.

Is there a way to pass parameter to alert configuration to avoid this redundancy in alert?

[AdamjWF]

A single expression is able to cover multiple alert statements.  E.g. `ts(cpu.loadavg.1m) > 50` will alert any time a system that is reporting cpu.loadavg.1m exceeds 50.  This will cover all metrics in that namespace, and alerts communicate the tags that the offending system had on it.

Alternately, you can manage your alerts via API (documentation found here: Wavefront API | Wavefront ).  This would make it easier to manage multiple alerts all at once.

[durren · Accepted solution]

hi, to add to this, we currently don't support parameters (variables) in alerts like we do with dashboards. However, variables will be added to alerts in a future release.