🔔 Alerts

We want to notify beekeeper in various cases/features. For that we need a generic way to create and list alerts. We want to store alerts in DB and display them in UI.

User story - configuring alert channels

• User goes to settings page
• Under Alerts
  • sets an alert channel from the select Alert me via: [email]
    • Mobile phone notification (in case its a mobile-app)
    • Email
    • SMS (Twilio?)
    • Telegram bot
      • https://telegraf.js.org/#md:introduction
    • Webhooks integration
• Under alert types, he can choose (as checkbox) which alert types he wants to receive (the list should be quite long)
  • swarming risk - Frame side queen cup detection
  • hornet attacks - Hornet attack detection
  • queen is missing - Queen detection
  • queen is failing to lay eggs - Frame analysis - spotty brood pattern detection
  • drone cell ratio is too high - Drone brood detection
  • low/high temperature in the hive
  • swarming has happened
  • custom anomaly - should be tied to Analytics with grafana

User story - receiving a queen missing alert

• User uploads all of the hive frames
• All frames are processed
• No queen is detected

  • Alert is generated

  • alert is shown in the header

  • On click, alert popup appears

• Depending on alert channels, it is delivered to the user
  • For email, user receives an email that hive X has a missing queen
  • Good wording, links, imagery, design is needed - ask Designer (UX / UI / Industrial)
• Once user has acted upon this alert, user approves an alert effectively hiding/deleting it

Suggested technical solution

Create new alerts microservice

• add new DB that it will use
• add graphql API that it will expose
  • add createAlert mutation
  • add alerts query
• service acts as a proxy. Actual alert generation should be owned by other services that contain the business logic