Skip to content

Stop telling users to configure alerts they cannot reach - #119

Merged
ETWOYA merged 1 commit into
mainfrom
docs/web-alerts-not-shipped
Sep 9, 2026
Merged

ETWOYA merged 1 commit into
mainfrom
docs/web-alerts-not-shipped

Conversation

@dankoverride

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Collaborator

The Web pages said two opposite things about alerts.

A row in the capability table had been commented out — but the getting-started flow diagram on the same page still ended at Configure Alerts, and the Guides page listed alerts among what the dashboard shows.

Settled from the product repo

Alerts is real but off. The SPA declares a route at /apm/{environment}/{grid}/alerts and a menu item behind FeatureFlag.Apm.Alerts, and features.json sets:

"apm-alerts": false

in both the source assets and the built dist.

So the commented-out row was correct, and the diagram was the defect — it walked a reader to a step that is not reachable.

Changed

  • Removed the Configure Alerts node from the getting-started flow
  • Dropped the now-settled commented row rather than leaving it to ship invisibly in the page source
  • Guides dashboard row: "health, metrics, and alerts" → "health, metrics, and errors"

Left alone

The Web release note about Tessa fetching alert summaries. The server side exists — GetAlertSummaryCommand and AlertSummaryViewModel are in the API — so Tessa reading summaries is a different capability from a customer-facing alerts screen.

A release note is also a record of what shipped on a date, not a description of the current build. Editing one to match today rewrites history.

When the flag turns on

The capability row, the flow node and the dashboard wording all come back together.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

The Web pages said two opposite things about alerts. A row in the capability
table had been commented out, while the getting-started flow diagram on the same
page still ended at "Configure Alerts", and the Guides page listed alerts among
what the dashboard shows.

Settled from the product repo. Alerts is real but off: the SPA declares a route
at /apm/{environment}/{grid}/alerts and a menu item behind
FeatureFlag.Apm.Alerts, and features.json sets

  "apm-alerts": false

in both the source assets and the built dist. So the commented-out row was
correct and the diagram was the defect -- it walked a reader to a step that is
not reachable.

Removed the "Configure Alerts" node from the flow, dropped the now-settled
commented row rather than leaving it to ship invisibly, and changed the Guides
dashboard row from "health, metrics, and alerts" to "health, metrics, and
errors".

Left alone: the Web release note about Tessa fetching alert summaries. The
server side exists -- GetAlertSummaryCommand and AlertSummaryViewModel are in
the API -- so Tessa reading summaries is a different capability from a
customer-facing alerts screen. A release note is also a record of what shipped
on a date, not a description of the current build, and editing one to match
today rewrites history.

When the flag turns on, the capability row, the flow node and the dashboard
wording all come back together.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@dankoverride
dankoverride requested a review from ETWOYA as a code owner September 9, 2026 22:30
@ETWOYA
ETWOYA merged commit 35014c9 into main Sep 9, 2026
1 check passed
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants