The new metric shows the configured evaluation interval per group.
Metric updates its value when group's interval is changed during
hot reload.
The new metric can be used to estimate how close group
is to start missing evaluation rounds. The following query
will show the % of used time by the group to evaluate all rules
before the next round:
```
(max(vmalert_iteration_duration_seconds{quantile="0.99"}) / vmalert_iteration_interval_seconds) * 100
```
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2618
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Unexpectedly, Grafana makes an extra request to `/rules`
handler in addition to `/api/v1/rules` calls in alerts UI.
This happens only for Grafana versions older than 8.5.*.
Apparently, this is related to support of other monitoring
systems.
Prometheus responds with `text/html` content for UI page `/rules`
to such requests. Actually, returning just a blank page with
SC=200 works as well.
Returning actual response of `/api/v1/rules`
results in error in Grafana since it expects a `yaml` (?) in response.
So we add a placeholder to `vmalert`.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2583
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
For liquid text processor double braces `{{` `}}`
are special chars for templating.
Since we use them in some of our docs with different purpose,
we must escape them to avoid syntax errors from liquid.
For escaping curly braces we use bult-in plugin which helps
to enclose sections of text via `{% raw %}` and `{% endraw %}`.
This approach prevents liquid syntax errors and makes render correct.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Rules executor within group tracks series sent to remote write
in order to mark them as stale if they had disappeared in next
evaluation round.
The executor uses rules ID as a key to identifies series which belong to rule.
On config reload, executor remains active but the set of rules could change.
Hence, we need to properly cleanup the tracker for rules which has been disappeared
on config reload.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: calculate time for firing alert based on the given timestamp
Previously, current time was used for checking the `firing` threshold.
This is not correct, since alerts are evaluated at specific timestamps.
Hence, this specific timestamp supposed to be used in the calculation.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: properly calculate evaluation timestamp for rules
Timestamp for rules evaluation should be calculated after
the artifical delay for groups start. Otherwise, evaluation
timestamp can fall back too far in time.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Function `ValidateTemplates`, used on the vmalert startup,
is supposed to check whether used templates and functions
in loaded rules are correct. The function was parsing
and executing loaded templates.
However, rules may contain functions which can't be executed
without values (label values or query results), like `slice`.
Because of this, validation for completely valid expression
`{{ slice $labels.job 9 }}` will fail since `$labels.job`
is empty during validation.
This PR updates `ValidateTemplates` function to only parse
templates without executing them.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2514
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
add progress bars to the VM importer
The new progress bars supposed to display the processing speed per each
VM importer worker. This info should help to identify if there is a bottleneck
on the VM side during the import process, without waiting for its finish.
The new progress bars can be disabled by passing `vm-disable-progress-bar` flag.
Plotting multiple progress bars requires using experimental progress bar pool
from github.com/cheggaaa/pb/v3. Switch to progress bar pool required changes
in all import modes.
The openTSDB mode wasn't changed due to its implementation, which implies individual progress
bars per each series. Because of this, using the pool wasn't possible.
Signed-off-by: dmitryk-dk <kozlovdmitriyy@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Before, relabeling for notifier configured via file was supported
only for target labels discovered via SD.
With this change, new config field `alert_relabel_configs` is introduced
for applying relabeling to labels of sent alerts.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
To improve compatibility with Prometheus alerting the order of
templates processing has changed.
Before, vmalert did all labels processing beforehand. It meant
all extra labels (such as `alertname`, `alertgroup` or rule labels)
were available in templating. All collisions were resolved in favour
of extra labels.
In Prometheus, only labels from the received metric are available in
templating, so no collisions are possible.
This change makes vmalert's behaviour similar to Prometheus.
For example, consider alerting rule which is triggered by time series
with `alertname` label. In vmalert, this label would be overriden
by alerting rule's name everywhere: for alert labels, for annotations, etc.
In Prometheus, it would be overriden for alert's labels only, but in annotations
the original label value would be available.
See more details here https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/issues/80
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The new flag `datasource.disableKeepAlive` allows disabling keepalive
connections. This may be useful if there are multiple datasource
replicas (e.g. vmselects) behind the HTTP balancer to avoid uneven
load spread because of long-lived connections.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Executor recently gain field for storing previously sent series.
Since the same executor object can be used in multiple goroutines,
the access to this field should be serialized.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: split alert's `Start` field into `ActiveAt` and `Start`
The `ActiveAt` field identifies when alert becomes active for rules
with `for > 0`. Previously, this value was stored in field `Start`.
The field `Start` now identifies the moment alert became `FIRING`.
The split is needed in order to distinguish these two moments
in the API responses for alerts.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: support specific moment of time for rules evaluation
The Querier interface was extended to accept a new argument
used as a timestamp at which evaluation should be made.
It is needed to align rules execution time within the group.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: mark disappeared series as stale
Series generated by alerting rules, which were sent to remote write
now will be marked as stale if they will disappear on the next
evaluation. This would make ALERTS and ALERTS_FOR_TIME series
more precise.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* wip
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: evaluate rules at fixed timestamp
Before, time at which rules were evaluated was calculated
right before rule execution. The change makes sure
that timestamp is calculated only once per evalution round
and all rules are using the same timestamp.
It also updates the logic of resending of already resolved
alert notification.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: allow overridin `alertname` label value if it is present in response
Previously, `alertname` was always equal to the Alerting Rule name. Now,
its value can be overriden if series in response containt the different value
for this label.
The change is needed for improving compatibility with Prometheus.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: align rules evaluation in time
Now, evaluation timestamp for rules evaluates as if
there was no delay in rules evaluation. It means, that
rules will be evaluated at fixed timestamps+group_interval.
This way provides more consistent evaluation results and
improves compatibility with Prometheus,
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: add metric for missed iterations
New metric `vmalert_iteration_missed_total` will show
whether rules evaluation round was missed.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: reduce delay before the initial rule evaluation in group
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: rollback alertname override
According to the spec:
```
The alert name from the alerting rule (HighRequestLatency from the example above) MUST be added to the labels of the alert with the label name as alertname. It MUST override any existing alertname label.
```
https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#step-3
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: throw err immediately on dedup detection
```
The execution of an alerting rule MUST error out immediately and MUST NOT send any alerts
or add samples to samples receiver if there is more than one alert with the same labels
```
https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#step-4
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: cleanup
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: use strings builder to reduce allocs
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: add support of `resendDelay` flag for alerts
Co-authored-by: dmitryk-dk <dmitry.kozlov@brightlocal.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: add support for `sortByLabel` template function
* vmalert: update API according to Prometheus conformance program
The changes to the API, field names and URL path has been made
according to the Prometheus specification for `alert_generator`
https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md
* vmalert: fix the timestamp of the evaluated rules
The timestamp used for alert's `EndsAt` was calculated
before sending the notification. While the correct way
is to use the timestamp taken right before rules evaluation.
* vmalert: add `-datasource.queryTimeAlignment` flag
The flag is supposed to provide ability to disable `time`
param alignment when executing rules. By default, this flag
is enabled, so it remains backward compatible.
The flag was introduced to achieve better compatibility
with Prometheus behaviour according to https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/discovery/consul: update services on the watcher's start
Previously, watcher's start was only initing goroutines for discovery
but not waiting for the first iteration to end. It means first Consul
discovery wasn't returning discovered targets until the next iteration.
The change makes the watcher's start blocking until we get first discovery
iteration done and all registries updated.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: remove workarounds for consul SD
Now when consul SD lib properly updates services
on the first start, we don't need workarounds in vmalert.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/discovery/consul: update after review
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* wip
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape: support prometheus-like duration in scrape configs
The change allows to specify duration values like `1d`, `1w`
for fields `scrape_interval`, `scrape_timeout`, etc.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/817#issuecomment-1033384766
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/blockcache: make linter happy
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/promscrape: support prometheus-like duration in scrape configs
* add support for extra fields `scrape_align_interval` and `scrape_offset`;
* support Prometheus duration parsing for `__scrape_interval__`
and `__scrape_duration__` labels;
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* wip
* wip
* docs/CHANGELOG.md: document the feature
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* Mention about the ability to configure vmalert notifiers via files in docs/CHANGELOG.md
* Mention about the ability to use Consul service discovery for vmalert notifiers in docs/CHANGELOG.md
* Run `make docs-sync` in order to sync app/vmalert/README.md to docs/vmalert.md
