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Verbosity setting

  • verbosity setting (notification settings)
  • normal verbosity - as is
  • less verbosity - no grouping by severity, no greetings
  • for both - include the number of unresolved dicrepancies

Relevant Slack conversation:

I find the messages to #status-notifications are a bit verbose for me. Could we try a shorter syntax? I'm not sure how complex the changes would need to be, but I find it hard to scroll through a lot of the messages.

Also, is there any way to count the number of outstanding warnings?

Current message format:

Dear recipient,

Following are the notification messages from Status Site.

Severity High:

[07/27/2017 21:50:30] Discrepancy "Gap in data from makerchip has been detected. The gap starts on 07/27/2017 21:08:04." has been resolved!


Always yours, 
Notificator

Could I propose:

[2 min ago] RESOLVED Discrepancy "Gap in data from makerchip has been detected. The gap starts on 07/27/2017 21:08:04." [07/27/2017 21:50:30]
There is still 1 outstanding discrepancy.

I'd skip the greeting/signature, as the messages pile up and have the Slack avatar for the author. It would be nice to glance at the last message and see if it was a new discrepancy to deal with, or if something was resolved and there aren't any other things outstanding.

Just a thought!

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Good thought. The idea behind verbosity was that the notifications may be more frequent and may be aggregated in messages. For now we have just 3 types of discrepancies (4th is coming) - not a lot of notifications. Long term plan is to include daily and weekly reports, some log messages, more discrepancy types. Also, you have 4 metrics, I have 20 on my instance. In long term system should support hundreds of metrics - as a result many more notifications.

However, I think it makes sense to introduce verbosity setting. Less verbosity would mean that the system no longer groups messages by severity, does not include greetings. I would not put “[2 mins ago]” since it is unknown when user actually sees notification. Modern messengers and mail clients will show you “… ago” anyway.