The Comments function allows users to post notes to monitoring devices and associate these with certain monitoring responses. When a comment is created, it can be assigned to one or more monitoring devices for a specific date/time range. When a report for a monitoring device is created, the comments will appear for the specified reporting period.
Comments can be used to:
- Keep a record of causes of certain outages.
- Mark planned outages.
- Add an explanation to certain error conditions.
- Add any additional information for a specified monitoring device for any specified period of time.
Comments can be public or private. Private comments are not displayed on dashboards, but they do appear in email and online reports.
To set up comments, follow guidelines from the Comment Log article.