I believe I have implemented this, but I don't know exactly how to test. See rules named "Is validate_drp running for HSC" and "Is validate_drp running for CFHT" here.

Angelo Fausti will you have a look at these and let me know if you think they are alright? If there is a way to test them without making the nightly fail, let me know.

Simon Krughoff that looks great, I see the new notifications at #dm-squash-alerts

I think we can remove the original one... Just did that, and it's nice to see the @ mention working.

 validade_drp status changed to {{.Level}} for CFHT <@U06DGJCTB> please check.

Also, the Kapacitor command line client has the record/replay feature that can be used to test the alert rules. I never used it but it seems very useful:

https://docs.influxdata.com/kapacitor/v1.5/working/cli_client/#replay

The replay functionality may be exactly what I want. Thanks!

If it's ok with you, I'm going to mark this done.

Sounds good.

Adding more info to this ticket from our discussion on slack, and marking as reviewed.

• Confirming that the Kapacitor HTTP API does support the record/replaying functionality, we could wrap that in the squash client for testing alert rules and notifications.
• Currently it is not possible to test alert rules from the Chronograf UI, but there's an open issue on GH for that.

The rules were triggered over the weekend and seemed to work generally as expected.