I get a lot of alerts and this is part of the work to investigate

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Hello guys, am I have installed and monitoring. But I do get a lot of alerts but, the alerts are not clear. Also the notifications being sent out readable. How can I make the notification or the alerts very clear and readable.

Example:
Device vtk–cpe-rt.example.net.gh recovered from Port status up/down

Device vtk-heavydee-cpe-rt.vtechnology.net.gh recovered from Port status up/down
Severity: critical
Time elapsed: 50m 35s
Timestamp: 2020-01-28 14:57:36
Unique-ID: 149150
Rule: Port status up/down
Faults:
#1: sysObjectID => .1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1; sysDescr => RouterOS RB952Ui-5ac2nD; location_id => 8; port_id => 5529; ifDescr => ether5;
#2: sysObjectID => .1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1; sysDescr => RouterOS RB952Ui-5ac2nD; location_id => 8; port_id => 5530; ifDescr => ether4;
#3: sysObjectID => .1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1; sysDescr => RouterOS RB952Ui-5ac2nD; location_id => 8; port_id => 5531; ifDescr => ether3;
#4: sysObjectID => .1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1; sysDescr => RouterOS RB952Ui-5ac2nD; location_id => 8; port_id => 5532; ifDescr => ether2;
Alert sent to: admin

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First of all, take a look to the alert templating https://docs.librenms.org/Alerting/Templates/

After that, everything will be more clear.

What you sended means that the device recovered from a port down, and is telling you the faults on that device

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@TheGreatDoc Thanks for the feedback please what can I do at he alert templates to make the alerts clear and readable?

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Just read the documentation. I think its clear.

But in small words, just create/import a template and assign it to an alert rule

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@TheGreatDoc please what about the Faults: options how can I get the exact fault in words but not in the numbers form.

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It will depend on what you want to show.

My best suggestion is to take a sample from the docs and start playing with it.

For example, this is my ports template (for up/down notifications)

` Host     : {{ $alert->hostname }}`
` Fecha    : {{ $alert->timestamp }}`
` Estado   : @if ($alert->state == 0)✅ @endif @if ($alert->state == 1)⚠ Warning @endif`
` Regla    : @if ($alert->name){{ $alert->name }} @else {{ $alert->rule }} @endif `
@if ($alert->state == 0)⏳ Time elapsed:  {{ $alert->elapsed }} @endif 
@if ($alert->faults)
Puerto(s):
@foreach ($alert->faults as $key => $value)
`   ⭗ {{ $value['ifName'] }}`
`   Descripción: {{ $value['ifAlias'] }}`
`   Estado     : {{ $value['ifOperStatus'] }}`
@endforeach 
@endif

Its in markdown as I use it for telegram/rocketchat transports that allows markdown.

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