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Templates can be previewed and edited using the Rule Editor tab in Bosun. Use the Jump to links to select the alert you want to edit, then you can use the template button next to macro to switch between the alert an template sections of the configuration. If an alert has multiple instances you can u...

You can embed another template body into your template via {{template "mysharedtemplate" .}} to reuse shared components. Here is an example that creates a header template that can be reused at the top of all other template bodies. It also uses CSS to stylize the output so that it is easier...

It often is faster to use a generic template when first creating a new alert and only specialize the template when you need to display more information. The following template will display a subject with a numerical value, custom formatting, and description string and then a body with up to two grap...