# How to print the dimension name in the alert notification? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** agent\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144 "2020-08-13T16:14:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pleung2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@pleung2](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pleung2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/1 "2020-08-13T16:14:18Z")
I would like to find out which application triggering the alert but I could not find a way to print the dimension out in the alert notification. The following is my cpu.conf: template: 1min\_appcpu\_usage on: apps.cpu os: linux hosts: \* lookup: average -1m unaligned of \* units: % every: 10s warn: $this \> (($status \>= $WARNING) ? (190) : (400)) crit: $this \> (($status == $CRITICAL) ? (401) : (3200)) delay: down 15m multiplier 1.5 max 1h info: cpu utilization for the last minute to: sysadmin Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![pleung2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@pleung2](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pleung2)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/2 "2020-08-21T04:42:29Z")
Thanks for the update! ---
**Author:** ![Thiago\_Marques](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Thiago\_Marques](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Thiago_Marques)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/3 "2020-08-20T00:01:14Z")
Thank you for the additional information, now I have a clear idea about what is happening. 1. Installedfeom EPEL Netdata official packages are not installed from EPEL, we use another server [netdata/netdata - Packages · packagecloud](https://packagecloud.io/netdata/netdata) and you can take more information in our learning site [Install Netdata with kickstart.sh | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/packaging/installer/methods/packages). About the error you are having, I remembered today that when the multihost was merged, we started to have problems with foreach alarms, but 8 days ago the PR [Fixed issue with missing alarms by stelfrag · Pull Request #9712 · netdata/netdata · GitHub](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/9712) was merged and the problem was fixed. If you install the nightly Netdata using RPMs or compiling Netdata using kickstart, you will have your alarms working as expected. We would like to apologize you and all our users for this problem. Best regards! ---
**Author:** ![pleung2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@pleung2](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pleung2)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/4 "2020-08-19T01:06:47Z")
answers for your questions: 1. Yes 2. Yes. { “labels”: [“time”, “netdata”, “email”, “wifi”, “logs”, “nfs”, “ssh”, “time”, “cron”, “X”, “ksmd”, “system”, “kernel”, “other”, “Simvision”, “Virtuoso”, “CFEngine”, “Spectre”, “Editors”], “data”: [ [1597798483, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6.0001, 0, 0, 0, 284.0053, 0], [1597798482, 1.8902, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2.8368, 0, 0, 0, 299.583, 0], [1597798481, 1.997, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 300.705, 0], [1597798480, 1.001, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 299.305, 0], [1597798479, 3.996, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 299.7063, 0], … 3. Installedfeom EPEL # rpm -qa |grep netdata netdata-data-1.23.2-1.el7.noarch netdata-conf-1.23.2-1.el7.noarch netdata-1.23.2-1.el7.x86\_64 Checked the alarm via localhost:19999/api/v1/alarms?all { “hostname”: “XXXXXXXXXX”, “latest\_alarm\_log\_unique\_id”: 1597170798, “status”: true, “now”: 1597798827, “alarms”: { ``` } ``` } no data is found in the alarm. Again, my conf file is in the following: more APPS\_CPU.conf alarm: appscpu1min on: apps.cpu os: linux hosts: \* #lookup: average -10m percentage foreach Spectre #lookup: average -1m percentage foreach Spectre lookup: average -1m percentage foreach \* unit: % # every: 1m every: 10s warn: $this \> (($status \>= $WARNING) ? (180) : (190)) crit: $this \> (($status == $CRITICAL) ? (190) : (290)) delay: down 15m multiplier 1.5 max 1h info: App CPU Usage above 190 as warning and 290 as critical for the last 10 minutes to: silent ---
**Author:** ![Thiago\_Marques](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Thiago\_Marques](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Thiago_Marques)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/5 "2020-08-18T22:39:15Z")
Hi everybody, I tested your alarm with basically two changes in the lookup, the first change was; lookup: average -30s percentage foreach \* And I had all alarms created according the API (localhost:19999/api/v1/alarms?all). I am copying few of them to reduce the size of my answer: “apps.cpu.1min\_appcpu\_usage\_nfs” “apps.cpu.1min\_appcpu\_usage\_httpd” “apps.cpu.1min\_appcpu\_usage\_sql” “apps.cpu.1min\_appcpu\_usage\_email” After this I changed the lookup line for: lookup: average -30s percentage foreach nfs, email And after to execute the request, I observed that I also had the expected dimensions. Finally I extended the test for 4 dimensions: lookup: average -30s percentage foreach nfs, email, ssh, kernel And again I got all alarms. I would like to call attention that if an dimension was not created, the alarm cannot be created. Considering the tests that I made on my Netdata, I have two questions for you: 1 - Are Spectre,Simvision the exact name that you defined inside your `apps_groups.conf`? 2 - Do you see these dimensions when you do the request `http://localhost:19999/api/v1/data?chart=apps.cpu` 3 - How did you install your Netdata? Best regards! ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Akritid1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/christopher_akritid1/32/419_2.png) [@Christopher\_Akritid1](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Christopher_Akritid1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/6 "2020-08-18T15:16:29Z")
#not working. alarm has diemension names but the status showed uninit and removedand no alarm lookup: average -30s percentage foreach Spectre,Simvision This one should be working. In fact, “foreach” is the only use case where it makes sense to have the specific dimension that triggered the alarm inside the notification. No other alarm configuration has that ambiguity. So getting it uninitialized sounds like a bug and we also need to add something new, so that the dimension that does trigger the alarm appears in the notifications. (see [Custom | Learn Netdata](https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/health/notifications/custom) for the variables that are currently sent to the notifications script, I suggest we add the dimension name to ${info} and/or ${alarm}. ---
**Author:** ![pleung2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@pleung2](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pleung2)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/7 "2020-08-17T14:45:58Z")
That’s correct. I don’t see the app name in both email and alarm in the web UI. For the time being, I just manually configured each of the apps defined in the apps\_groups.conf. That works but troublesome. ---
**Author:** ![zack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f6c823/32.png) [@zack](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/zack)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/8 "2020-08-15T01:27:22Z")
So basically the problem is that you get the alarm, but you don’t know which app triggers it because the app name doesn’t show up? I thought it would pop up under db lookup in the alarm, but I will have to double check it’s working as expected. ---
**Author:** ![pleung2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@pleung2](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pleung2)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/9 "2020-08-14T15:53:02Z")
The dynamic alarm setting just does not work. See my following configuration: alarm: app\_cpu on: apps.cpu #works but it does not provide dimension name in the alarm lookup: average -30s percentage of S\* #not working. alarm has the dimension name but the status showed uninit and removed and no alarm lookup: average -30s percentage foreach S\* #not working. alarm has diemension names but the status showed uninit and removedand no alarm lookup: average -30s percentage foreach Spectre,Simvision #works but it does not provide dimension name in the alarm lookup: average -30s percentage Spectre,Simvision lookup: average -30s percentage foreach \* unit: % every: 3s warn: $this \> 1 crit: $this \> 110 to: sysadmin Goal: I expect the dimension name would be somewhere in the alarm. It takes too much time to look into this dynamic alarm. For the time being, I just need to configure an alarm for each app which defined in apps\_groups.conf ---
**Author:** ![pleung2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@pleung2](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/pleung2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/10 "2020-08-13T22:11:14Z")
I also tried dynamic alarm template setting but no luck. The netdata version is 1.23.2. ---
**Author:** ![boutetnico](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/boutetnico/32/3297_2.png) [@boutetnico](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/boutetnico)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/11 "2023-11-13T09:45:53Z")
It seems to me it’s still not possible to show which dimension triggered the alarm in 1.43.2. Has anyone found a way to do it? ---
**Author:** ![Manolis\_Vasilakis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/manolis_vasilakis/32/820_2.png) [@Manolis\_Vasilakis](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Manolis_Vasilakis)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/12 "2023-11-16T07:25:00Z")
Hi @boutetnico Could you share please an example of what you would like to have? ---
**Author:** ![boutetnico](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/boutetnico/32/3297_2.png) [@boutetnico](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/boutetnico)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 8:59am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/how-to-print-the-dimension-name-in-the-alert-notification/144/13 "2023-11-16T08:59:35Z")
Hi @Manolis_Vasilakis, sure! We monitor unhealthy target groups in our AWS Application Load Balancers. Target groups are dynamic, they come and go, they are not a static list. Each target group status is a dimension in a chart, see below. ![netdata-chart-fixed](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/6/685becef67911098aebe29509c390f907773dd9e.png) We have set an alert rule using `foreach *`that iterates on the dynamic list of target groups, to check if any group has any unhealthy targets. See below. ```auto template: alb_unhealthy_targets on: alb.state_unhealthy class: Utilization type: System component: AWS os: linux hosts: * lookup: min -10s foreach * every: 10s warn: $this > 0 crit: $this > 0 summary: ALB unhealthy targets info: ALB unhealthy targets to: sysadmin ``` The alert is configured to send a Slack notification. It works, however the message received on Slack does not contain the name of the dimension that triggered the alert, see below. ![netdata-slack-notification](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/7/7383124ddd9353122274ff01b1e3a6e6ede4c5d8.png) How to include the dimension name that triggered the alert in the Slack notification?