1454549 - Prototype notifications/alerting for JS error reporting

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Socorro :: General, task)

Description

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

Several users have asked about getting notifications set up for incoming JS error reports. The existing notification system in Sentry isn't quite what we want:

- Alert rules can only be configured per-project, and users can only subscribe to all or none of the alerts from a project. Per-user notifications aren't possible currently.

- Sentry alert rules can only use absolute thresholds, whereas we have some desire for relative thresholds (e.g. an error rate increasing by 20% from the previous hour).

I'd like to build a bare-bones prototype for trigger alerts based on incoming errors. It will exist for the lifetime of the JS error collection prototype, but be shut down in Q3 when we end the prototype. 

I'm aiming to have the system up and running by mid-Q2, so we can get at least 3 months of time using and improving it to see if it is considered useful enough to include in the production error collection system.

Comment 1

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

This was finished and launched. The codebase is at https://github.com/mozilla-services/bec-alerts. It's been running for a month or two without any issues.