Monitor notes

It’s the holidays, and you’re the only data engineer on call. The rest of your team is off downing latkes and sneaking cookies meant for Santa (the naughty list has already been finalized by this point, right?), but you’re stuck dealing with a data issue. The nullness is spiking on your DAILY_TRANSACTION_LOG table (very important), and you’re not entirely sure why.

As you search high and low for an answer, you happen to click into the “Timeline” tab in the monitor and, behold—a note from your teammate Jessica, dated a few weeks ago. It says:

So you go to check. As it turns out, a new person on the ops team has made the very same mistake. You make the fix, and your nullness check quickly returns to normal. It’s a Christmas miracle!

We’re happy to announce that you, like Jessica, now have the ability to add notes to the timeline of any monitor in Metaplane. Use them to describe why you made a configuration change, why you marked a monitor as normal, steps for triaging persistent issues…anything you like. By doing so, you can keep the knowledge about the monitor on the monitor itself, rather than in Slack, in a wiki, or locked in your teammate’s head. We hope this additional way to add context to monitors saves your team time!