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Figure 4-23.
E-mail customization
As you can see, the long format is well named, providing nearly every available piece of information that you
might require. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to read. You might then choose to look at the short format,
shown in Figure
4-24
, especially if these messages are to be delivered to a mobile device such as a cell phone or pager.
Unfortunately, this format takes brevity to the absolute limit, not even including the metric details that caused the
alert. This is a design feature specifically limiting the message to fewer than 155 characters. This limit is intended
to allow SMS sending, though provider limits and character sets for SMS may be more limited than this (many for
example, limit you to 140 characters). You will undoubtedly, therefore, wish to customize one or the other of these
formats for production use.
