overriding message string with a dummy var in beacon

Author: Aakash Sabharwal

graphite_beacon/alerts.py

@@ -73,12 +73,8 @@ def __init__(self, reactor, **options):
 
         LOGGER.debug("in BaseAlert Options init %s", str(options))
         LOGGER.debug("in BaseAlert Options reactor %s", str(reactor))
-
-        
         LOGGER.debug("in BaseAlert Options %s", options.get('testvar'))
-        LOGGER.debug("test ", self.reactor.options['testvar'])
-
-        self.testvar = "success"
+        self.testvar = options.get('testvar')
         LOGGER.debug("self.testvar %s", self.testvar)
 
         try:

graphite_beacon/templates/graphite/message.txt

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ History: {{ [ alert.convert(v) for v in alert.history[target][:100] ] }} {% end
 
 View the graph: {{ alert.get_graph_url(alert.query) }}
 
+View the graph: {{ alert.testvar }}
+
 --
 
 You can configure alerts for notifications in your configuration file.