PrometheusRules: Description should use a "friendly" name, rather than the dexcom username #8

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opened 2026-01-16 08:00:26 +00:00 by karl · 0 comments

karl commented

2026-01-16 08:00:26 +00:00

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Dexcom usernames are rarely "person names" (e.g. "Joe Bloggs"), and can often be somewhat different from the actual diabetes sufferer (e.g. "jbloggs98")

It would be nice if the alert included the name of the diabetes sufferer - this would make the description far more readable. It would also have the side effect of making the alert description speakable - e.g. if text-to-voice is used somewhere in the alerting pipeline to make an Alexa/GoogleNest/Nabu announce the alert to the room.

Dexcom usernames are rarely "person names" (e.g. "Joe Bloggs"), and can often be somewhat different from the actual diabetes sufferer (e.g. "jbloggs98") It would be nice if the alert included the _name_ of the diabetes sufferer - this would make the description far more readable. It would also have the side effect of making the alert description _speakable_ - e.g. if text-to-voice is used somewhere in the alerting pipeline to make an Alexa/GoogleNest/Nabu announce the alert to the room.