Alert

An alert is a problem with your data, such as a late dataset delivery or a failed quality check. In ODSL an alert is an object read from the alert service: change its fields and save it to change the alert. To raise an alert, save a SimpleObject with at least a title.

Properties

Name	Description	Type
_id	The alert id, such as ALR-2026-000401 (ALC- common, ALP- public)	String
title	Short description	String
message	What is wrong	String
description	More detail	String
category	A grouping, such as dataset or curve	String
issue	The type, such as delivery, completeness, quality, build or export	String
severity	critical, high, medium or low	String
status	open or closed	String
agent	Who it is with: client (your team), opendatadsl or a data vendor's name	String
subject	What it is about: service, id and ondate	Object
key	The id of the problem, used to count repeats	String
occurrences	How many times it was raised while open	Int
resolution	What was wrong and what was done	String
comment	Set to add a comment when saving	String
tags	Your own labels	List
timeline	Everything that happened to the alert	List
_version	The version read, checked when saving	Int

See the Alerts reference for every field.

Example

// Raise an alert about a stale broker feed
n = SimpleObject()
n.title = "NGE.BROKER.NBP prices look stale since Monday"
n.severity = "high"
n.issue = "quality"
n.subject = SimpleObject()
n.subject.service = "dataset"
n.subject.id = "NGE.BROKER.NBP"
n.key = "northgate/stale/NGE.BROKER.NBP"
save ${alert:n}

// Close an alert
a = ${alert:"ALR-2026-000402"}
a.status = "closed"
a.resolution = "Loader fixed; file reloaded at 10:15"
save ${alert:a}