Clarification around what's possible with Sentry alert rule conditions

[antancia]

Core or SDK?

Core Sentry product

Which part? Which one?

Sentry alert rules

Description

My team is trying to write some alert rules. We have a couple of rules that we'd like to include an OR condition, and wanted to know if something like this is possible:

Normally we would just add these as two separate IF condition lines, however the issue is that we always want to include the second IF condition that you see in the screenshot - and we don't seem to have that level of control over the conditionals.

For now we're getting around this limitation by writing separate alert rules for each of the event tags we want, but was wondering if something like you see in the screenshot is actually possible. If so - what's the correct syntax to use here?

Suggested Solution

If something like this is possible, then it would be helpful to update the alert documentation to clarify the correct way to do conditionals in the value field.

If this is not currently possible, then this is a feature that my team would love to have!

[getsentry-release]

Routing to @getsentry/workflow for triage. ⏲️

[scttcper]

Hello! The bad news is that conditional OR does not work in this part of the product. You might switch the filters to be any and then filter by either team but this wouldn't enforce the event level is greater than or equal to warning since its no longer "all of your filters match".

Another solution you might try is issue owners. With issue owners you can use your custom team tag to assign the issue to the team and then use issue alerts to send that team a notification via the notify issue owners action.

[antancia]

@scttcper Thanks for the response! We'll look into the issue owners functionality and see if that works for our use case. In the meantime, we'll continue with our workaround of making separate alert rules for each team tag, so that we can include the other alert conditions we need.

Can you also help me put this in as a feature request, or point me to where I can do that?

[scttcper]

This is the right place, I've added that feature request to our backlog.

[antancia]

Awesome, thank you!