Michael Zuniga

Add TimeStamp to notifications

It would be nice to have the date/time of an event included in the notification. We have situations where we receive the "processed" event after the "delivered" event. We also have many instances where the time between the time the email was "sent" and when it was "delivered" is in excess of a few minutes. We record the date/time when we send the email to SendGrid, and we record the date/time we received the notifications that we receive in response to that email.

If the notification server is backed up, and doesn't deliver the "delivered" notification for several minutes, it looks as if it took that long to deliver the email, when the real truth is that the email was delivered in a matter of seconds, vs. the few minutes it took for the notification of that event to reach us.

By including the date/time the notification was generated, we could record that date/time instead of the date/time we received the notification, and that would eliminate what is now misleading information in our statistics. Also, that date/time information should be in UTC time - so as to eliminate any possible confusion on differences in timezones.
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