Configurable alert delivery in a distributed processing system

A method of configurable alert delivery in a distributed processing system, the method comprising:

• for each alert generated by an incident analyzer, applying, by the incident analyzer, active alert filters to the alert;
• wherein applying the active alert filters to the alert includes:
• creating, by the incident analyzer, a list of all active alert filters and a set of all active listeners;
• and
• for each active alert filter, running, by the incident analyzer, the active alert filter;
• if the active alert filter indicates that the alert should not go to one or more of the active listeners, removing, by the incident analyzer, the one or more active listeners from the set of all active listeners;
• if the active listeners set is empty, stopping, by the incident analyzer, processing of the alert;
• and
• if the active listeners set is not empty, selecting, by the incident analyzer, the next active alert filter from the active alert filter list.