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Categories Atlas Monitoring, Alerts & Observability
Created by Chandler Wyatt
Created on Nov 15, 2020

RELATED FEEDBACK

Include Human-Friendly Cluster Names in Alert Notifications

Please include the human-friendly cluster/host names in Monitoring Alert Notifications (e.g. email, PagerDuty, etc) in addition to, or instead of, the less clear internal cluster/hostnames (i.e. atlas-abcdef-shard-0).
  • Admin
    Frank Sun
    Apr 3, 2026

    All Atlas alerts should now be showing the customer-defined cluster name. If any alerts are still using the internal hostname, please leave a comment and we will address them individually. Thank you!

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  • Guest
    May 25, 2021
    I'll go one step further: the usage of internal cluster/hostnames actively mislead our understanding of Atlas. There needs to be consistency and the ability to determine the correct name that should be used in features across the product.
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  • Guest
    Nov 16, 2020
    Yeah, showing our custom cluster name instead of (or in addition to) the default unreadable cluster name is super helpful when you have many clusters in a given project. Good: my-test-cluster Bad: atlas-abc123-shard-0
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Add Cluster Name to Atlas Alerts Output

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What problem are you trying to solve? Focus on the what and why of the need you have, not the how you'd like it solved. Many alerts are difficult to act on, since they contain information about org & product, then the name of the host tha...
Flavio Orfano 3 months ago in Atlas Monitoring, Alerts & Observability 3 Started