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Setting up Alerts for Specific Exceptions with SigNoz

TLDR Taylor asked about setting up alerts for specific exceptions. Pranay shared a helpful resource and suggested go templates. Srikanth advised to group by exception type using labels to format the message.

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Apr 05, 2023 (8 months ago)

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Taylor

09:07 PM

Is there a guide somewhere on setting up alerts for exceptions? I have exception logging working and I created an alert for exceptions, but the alert that I receive in Slack is more of a metric than the specific exception.

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Pranay

09:34 PM

Taylor Can you share more on what do you mean by
> alert that I receive in Slack is more of a metric than the specific exception.

09:35

Pranay

09:35 PM

We had done an office hrs on Alerts. Might be helpful for you to get an idea - https://youtu.be/oQFMfEc9JNI

Taylor

09:35 PM

What I would like to be able to do is just receive a message in Slack when I receive a new error. Something like this that we were getting from New Relic:

Image 1 for What I would like to be able to do is just receive a message in Slack when I receive a new error. Something like this that we were getting from New Relic:

09:36

Taylor

09:36 PM

It contains the basic error message and a link to the error in New Relic to view more details.

09:36

Taylor

09:36 PM

I don't really see anyway to configure an alert in SigNoz to contain information about a specific exception.

Pranay

09:39 PM

I see, that's a good question.

Did you check this section in the doc - https://signoz.io/docs/userguide/alerts-management/#1-configure-slack-channel

It mentions using go templates for setting alert specific info.

09:40

Pranay

09:40 PM

If that doesn't work, please create an issue - https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/issues/new/choose

Apr 06, 2023 (8 months ago)

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Srikanth

01:11 AM

Taylor, in your query, you could group by an exception type and use the labels to format the alert message as you mentioned above. Let us know if you further help.

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