ValueString in Grafana 10

[pixeltopic]

I noticed this comment here:

alerting/templates/template_data.go

Line 41 in 793c672

ValueString string `json:"valueString"` // TODO: Remove in Grafana 10

Are there plans to replace ValueString with something easier to work with? I'm currently parsing this string in order to associate my Graphite query string with the float64 value, since

Values        map[string]float64 `json:"values"`

does not offer the context I need (it only maps the var name to the number whereas I need the name label).

[gtirloni]

I hope there is a plan since the official solution is to have an annotation with a Go template that is able to access $values and use that inside a notification template, meaning you have to partially template the notification in each alert. There is currently no way to create a smart notification template that is not brittle when (almost all) information is hidden behind ValueString and has to be manipulated through regular expressions.