We are re-evaluating our strategy for our Process Monitor Alerts. We currently have a heavy amount of Process monitor alerts where the only difference from alert to alert is the name of the process that is being monitored. I am proposing creating 1 alert that has a condition group listing all the process monitors which would be tied to a simple condition that says if Application Status is equal to down then trigger. We would then use the nodes customproperties to build the alert email(who gets emailed, what to do to triage, etc)
I have heard some people say that this is inefficient from a server processing perspective if the list of processes grows but to me it sounds more inefficient to have so many alerts whose onlydifference is one line(the name of the process)...just wanted to see if there was a difference one way or the other in terms of preformance