Kibana: Type naming convention

Created on 26 Mar 2020  路  7Comments  路  Source: elastic/kibana

A consistent naming convention (e.g. type/name - solution). E.g. in the following screenshot, you can't easily tell which type belongs to which solution.
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That's true. We could just keep threshold wording for index threshold and metric threshold and drop the others:

  • Error rate
  • Index threshold
  • Metric threshold
  • SIEM Notification
  • SIEM Signal
  • Transaction duration
  • Uptime monitor status

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Pinging @elastic/kibana-alerting-services (Team:Alerting Services)

I noticed we have the same issue in the "Select a trigger type" section when creating an alert.

Screen Shot 2020-03-27 at 9 11 03 AM

It was proposed by @mdefazio to group the type filter by application that owns the alert type. It was then brought up by @arisonl that we would still have UX issues in the "Select a trigger type" when creating an alert.

It seems best to simply rename the alert types for 7.7?

A starting point for renaming:

  • Error rate threshold
  • Index threshold
  • Metric threshold
  • SIEM Notification
  • SIEM Signal
  • Transaction duration threshold
  • Uptime monitor status

One thought I have is that we might consider dropping "threshold" as it seems implied in many cases and having so many alerts with that in the name might be confusing.

That's true. We could just keep threshold wording for index threshold and metric threshold and drop the others:

  • Error rate
  • Index threshold
  • Metric threshold
  • SIEM Notification
  • SIEM Signal
  • Transaction duration
  • Uptime monitor status

It seems best to simply rename the alert types for 7.7?

Makes sense.

SIEM alert types to also be sentence case, so:

  • Error rate
  • Index threshold
  • Metric threshold
  • SIEM notification
  • SIEM signal
  • Transaction duration
  • Uptime monitor status

I will move forward with this in a PR, thanks everyone!

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