Metadata is "data about data." Examples of metadata include: time and date of data creation, purpose of data, creator/author of data. In Avenue, metadata is used for things like identifying the creator of a monitor or getting the email of the person that a signal is assigned to.

Here are all the available Metadata tags, scroll down for information on each one:

You can use the assignee specific tags to dynamically embed a signal assignee's slack ID or email in order to send the signal directly to whomever is assigned upon signal creation or escalation.

These tags allow you to embed your Monitor or Signal ID into the signal itself. For example, if you would like to add a link in your signal that leads back to the monitor, you can add the {{metadata.workflow_id}} tag to the end of the Avenue monitor. Like this:

Please Note: In this example we are using the markdown syntax to create a link, see more information on that here: Markdown Guide: Links.

Here is what it would look like in slack:

These tags are available when using a subscriber that has the Advanced Usage option when adding subscriber to your monitor.

The Advanced Usage option is present for specific subscribers/integrations which may need some mapping between Avenue signals and the integration's content method. The current list of subscribers that have the Advanced Usage option available are:

A simple use case would be that you are looking to create Zendesk tickets from Avenue signals and you would like the ticket's subject to be the signals title. In the Advanced Usage section you would simply set the subject to map to {{metadata.signal_title}}.

This tags allows you to include a timestamp showing when signal was created in the signal title or body.

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