Feature Request: Provision to send custom messages with log content as alerts using Alert API.

[ARK-ASWINRAJ]

The context

I'm using parseable for logging in with Winston logger and sending alerts based on custom rules to a slack channel. This is super helpful. But still, I can only send custom strings as message content for alerts. Actually, I wanted to send the 'log content' (including stack trace) or the value in a specific column in a log to slack. But couldn't find a way to do the same.
{ version: "v1", alerts: [ { name: "Crash Alert", message: "Server Crashed", rule: { type: "column", config: { column: "status", operator: "=", repeats: 3, value: 500, }, }, targets: [ { type: "slack", config: { url: slackUrl }, repeat: "1m", }, ], }, ], };

What would be great ?

If I can do something like this-:
{ version: "v1", alerts: [ { name: "Crash Alert", message: "Server Crashed: {log_entry.message}", rule: { type: "column", config: { column: "status", operator: "=", repeats: 3, value: 500; }, }, targets: [ { type: "slack", config: { url: slackUrl, }, repeat: "1m", }, ], }, ], };

If there's a provision to send custom fields like ({log_entry.message}) in logs along with or within 'message' as a payload for alerts, that would be perfect.

[nitisht]

Thanks @ARK-ASWINRAJ we'll take a look

[Rodelkoenig]

@nitisht great feature! I think a mention or sample in official docs (https://www.parseable.io/docs/alerts) would be helpful for others, found it only by accident.

[nitisht]

Thanks @Rodelkoenig we’ll add it in the docs

[jybleau]

logging in with Winston logger

@ARK-ASWINRAJ I've published a Winston transport https://www.npmjs.com/package/parseable-winston
was wondering if you could have a look? It uses a buffer to send ingestion in batch

If it's worth it, I could suggest to add a reference to the documentation, if the maintainers think it's a valuable addition.

btw: struggling to use this custom message feature correctly.

[nitisht]

Thanks for reporting @jybleau we'll add this in docs in detail. Reopening the issue to track.