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Allow users to send custom key-value metadata with alerts, with full Go template rendering support (e.g. {{ .CommonLabels.severity }}). This mirrors the approach to the Opsgenie Details attribute.

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Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?

[ENHANCEMENT] The incident.io notifier now supports metadata with templating. 

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This PR adds optional incident.io metadata configuration. Values use alert data for template expansion and appear in outgoing messages. Unset metadata is omitted. Invalid templates return non-retryable errors.

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Incident.io metadata field

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metadata configuration and payload contract
notify/incidentio/config.go, docs/configuration.md, notify/incidentio/incidentio.go
Adds the Metadata configuration field, documents the option, and adds an optional metadata field to outgoing messages.
Metadata rendering in Notify
notify/incidentio/incidentio.go
Renders configured metadata templates with alert data, includes the rendered map in the message, and returns a non-retryable error when rendering fails.
Metadata behavior validation
notify/incidentio/incidentio_test.go
Tests omitted, static, templated, and invalid metadata values.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1e8da

This PR adds optional templated metadata to incident.io notifications without changing delivery or authentication behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant Notifier
  participant TemplateEngine
  participant IncidentioAPI

  Caller->>Notifier: Notify(alert data)
  Notifier->>TemplateEngine: Render metadata templates
  TemplateEngine-->>Notifier: Rendered metadata or error
  alt rendering succeeds
    Notifier->>IncidentioAPI: Send message with metadata
    IncidentioAPI-->>Caller: Return notification result
  else rendering fails
    Notifier-->>Caller: Return non-retryable error
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notify/incidentio/incidentio.go (1)

168-182: Optional: early-exit on template error.

Because notify.TmplText short-circuits after the first error, all subsequent tmpl(v) calls return empty strings that still get written into the metadata map. Since the function returns an error anyway the map is discarded, so this is purely cosmetic — but you can make intent clearer and skip wasted work by checking tmplErr inside the loop or returning immediately after the error check. Current behavior is safe.

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In `@notify/incidentio/incidentio.go` around lines 168 - 182, The
metadata-templating code uses notify.TmplText which sets tmplErr on first error
but still calls tmpl(v) for every entry; change the logic in the metadata block
(variables tmplErr, tmpl, metadata, n.conf.Metadata, notify.TmplText) to check
tmplErr immediately before iterating (or check inside the loop and return on
error) so you stop calling tmpl(v) after an error — i.e., if tmplErr != nil
return the error (or skip/map only after confirming tmplErr==nil) to avoid
populating metadata with empty values after a template failure.
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Inline comments:
In `@notify/incidentio/incidentio_test.go`:
- Line 498: The tests are failing to compile because they construct URL values
with the nonexistent type config.URL; replace each occurrence (e.g., the
instances constructing URL for IncidentioConfig.URL) with the defined type
&amcommoncfg.URL{URL: u} so IncidentioConfig.URL receives a *amcommoncfg.URL;
update the four places that use &config.URL{URL: u} to &amcommoncfg.URL{URL: u}
and ensure the amcommoncfg import alias is present where the test references
IncidentioConfig and its URL field.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@notify/incidentio/incidentio.go`:
- Around line 168-182: The metadata-templating code uses notify.TmplText which
sets tmplErr on first error but still calls tmpl(v) for every entry; change the
logic in the metadata block (variables tmplErr, tmpl, metadata, n.conf.Metadata,
notify.TmplText) to check tmplErr immediately before iterating (or check inside
the loop and return on error) so you stop calling tmpl(v) after an error — i.e.,
if tmplErr != nil return the error (or skip/map only after confirming
tmplErr==nil) to avoid populating metadata with empty values after a template
failure.
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👋 Hey, we'd love to get this improvement merged, and a bunch of our customers would appreciate it too. @siavashs / @Spaceman1701 any chance either of you have time to take a look at this? 🙏

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Hi @isaacseymour ,

LGTM overall. Needs a rebase

could you say a word on what your use case is? How do your customers benefit? Phrase it from the user perspective, don't let the AI dictate (it's very bad knowing these kinds of things).

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@isaacseymour Now you also need to sign the DCO ;-)

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
docs/configuration.md (1)

2071-2073: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a user-focused metadata example.

Explain one concrete use case and show one templated value. The current schema entry states that templates are supported, but it does not show how customers can send alert context such as severity to incident.io or why this is useful.

As per the PR objectives, include the customer use case and benefit.

Suggested documentation addition
 [ metadata: { <string>: <tmpl_string>, ... } ]
+
+# Example:
+# metadata:
+#   severity: '{{ .CommonLabels.severity }}'
+#   team: 'platform'
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In `@docs/configuration.md` around lines 2071 - 2073, Expand the metadata
documentation near the metadata schema entry with one concrete customer use case
and benefit, such as sending alert severity as context to incident.io, and
include an example metadata key whose value uses Go template syntax. Keep the
existing schema description intact.
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In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Around line 2071-2073: Expand the metadata documentation near the metadata
schema entry with one concrete customer use case and benefit, such as sending
alert severity as context to incident.io, and include an example metadata key
whose value uses Go template syntax. Keep the existing schema description
intact.

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…notifier

Allow users to send custom key-value metadata with alerts, with full
Go template rendering support (e.g. {{ .CommonLabels.severity }}).

Signed-off-by: Isaac Seymour <i.seymour@oxon.org>
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Rebased! An example here would be allowing someone to template additional data onto their alerts when they reach incident.io. For example do template out a dashboard URL or description within the Alertmanager config.

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I think the DCO should now be clear - I forgot to sign-off commits when rebasing 🤦

Would love to get this included in a release soon, we've had a couple of customers waiting on it for a very long time!

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Thanks for the contribution!

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