title: "Terminology" date: "2024-08-07" description: "This page provides a comprehensive guide to the key terms and concepts used in Notification Center." search: exclude: true noindex: true

Terminology

This page presents the key terms and concepts used as the basis for Notification Center.

Term	Description
Connector type	A third-party destination or sink that the product supports, such as Slack, PagerDuty, etc.
Connector	A configuration of templates with conditions for connecting to a third-party destination or sink of a certain type, such as “slack-workspace-1”, “slack-workspace-2”, “My_PagerDuty” or “My_HTTPS_Website”. Users can define multiple connectors for the same connector type.
Entity type	The general data serving as the source of the notification (e.g., `alerts`).
Entity subtype	A subtype of a entity, consisting of an an alert type, an alert condition, and a triggered or resolved status. (e.g.,`metricThresholdMoreThanTriggered`).
Preset	A configuration of templates with conditions, defining the content of the message configuration.
Template	A blueprint for some output data (e.g., `Alert has been {{alert.status}} - Priority: {{alertDef.priority}} on {{alert.timestamp}}`). Templates are written in Tera programming language.