We switch default alert's source link to redirect user
to vmalert's UI instead of previous JSON object. While it breaks
compatibility, it also supposed to improve user's experience.
The old behavior can be achieved by updating `-external.alert.source`
command-line flag.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
vmalert can be successfully used with datasources
compatible with Prometheus HTTP API. So we remove comments or
notes in Readme which are saying opposite.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: deprecate alert's status link
Deprecate alert's status link `/api/v1/<groupID>/<alertID>/status` in favour of
`api/v1/alerts?group_id=<group_id>&alert_id=<alert_id>"`.
The change was needed for simplifying logic in vmselect for proxying vmalert's requests.
The old alert's status link will be still supported for a few versions but will be removed in the future.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2825
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: fix review comments
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
vmalert: support `limit` param in groups definition
`limit` param limits number of time series samples produced by a single rule
during execution.
On reaching the limit rule will return an err.
Signed-off-by: lihaowei <haoweili35@gmail.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>
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>
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>
* 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>
* 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
vmalert: support configuration file for notifiers
* vmalert notifiers now can be configured via file
see https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#notifier-configuration-file
* add support of Consul service discovery for notifiers config
see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1947
* add UI section for currently loaded/discovered notifiers
* deprecate `-rule.configCheckInterval` in favour of `-configCheckInterval`
* add ability to suppress logs for duplicated targets for notifiers discovery
* change behaviour of `vmalert_alerts_send_errors_total` - it now accounts
for failed alerts, not HTTP calls.
* vmalert: introduce additional HTTP URL params per-group configuration
The new group field `params` allows to configure custom HTTP URL params
per each group. These params will be applied to every request before
executing rule's expression. Hot config reload is also supported.
Field `extra_filter_labels` was deprecated in favour of `params` field.
vmalert will print deprecation log message if config file contains
the deprecated field.
`params` fields are supported by both Prometheus and Graphite datasource types.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: provide more examples for `params` field
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: set higher priority for `params` setting
If there would be a conflict between URL params set in `datasource.url` flag
and params in group definition the latter will have higher priority.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The bump was required for `vmalert` package.
`vmalert` docs now also contain an updated description.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
For a long time notifier.Addr flag was required. The assumption was that vmalert will
be always used for alerting. However, practice shows that some users need only
recording rules. In this case, requirement of notifier.Addr is ambigious.
The change verifies if loaded config contains recording or alerting rules and
if there are corresponding flags set. This is true for initial config load
and hot reload.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
New UI pages:
/ - welcome page with API handlers list;
/groups - list of all rules per group;
/alerts - list of all active alerts;
/groupID/alertID/status - status of the active alert;
* vmalert: allow extra GET params in datasource package
ExtraParams will be added as GET params to every HTTP request made by datasource.
The `roundDigits` param, for example, was substituted by corresponding extra param.
* vmalert: add nocache=1 param for replay process
The `nocache=1` param is VictoriaMetrics specific parameter which prevents it
from caching and boundaries aligning for queries. We set it to avoid cache
pollution in `replay` mode and also to avoid unnecessary time range boundaries
alignment.
* vmalert: mention nocache=1 in replay description
* vmalert: fix bug with unused param
* vmalert: remove `vmalert_execution_duration_seconds` metric
The summary for `vmalert_execution_duration_seconds` metric gives no additional
value comparing to `vmalert_iteration_duration_seconds` metric.
* vmalert: update config reload success metric properly
Previously, if there was unsuccessfull attempt to reload config and then
rollback to previous version - the metric remained set to 0.
* vmalert: add Grafana dashboard to overview application metrics
* docker: include vmalert target into list for scraping
* vmalert: extend notifier metrics with addr label
The change adds an `addr` label to metrics for alerts_sent and alerts_send_errors
to identify which exact address is having issues.
The according change was made to vmalert dashboard.
* vmalert: update documentation and docker environment for vmalert's dashboard
Mention Grafana's dashboard in vmalert's README in a new section #Monitoring.
Update docker-compose env to automatically add vmalert's dashboard.
Update docker-compose README with additional info about services.
* vmalert: allow to disable automatically added path to remote write address via disablePathAppend flag
* docs: update docs to include remoteWrite.disablePathAppend
* vmalert: support rules backfilling (aka `replay`)
vmalert can `replay` configured rules in the past
and backfill results via remote write protocol.
It supports MetricsQL/PromQL storage as data source,
and can backfill data to remote write compatible
storage.
Supports recording and alerting rules `replay`. See more
details in README.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/836
* vmalert: review fixes
* vmalert: readme fixes
New flag `-rule.configCheckInterval` defines how often `vmalert` will re-read
config file. If it detects any changes, the config will be reloaded.
This behaviour is turned off by default.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/512
The new setting `extra_filter_labels` may be assigned to group.
If it is, then all rules within a group will automatically filter
for configured labels. The feature is well-described here
https://docs.victoriametrics.com#prometheus-querying-api-enhancements
New setting is compatible only with VM datasource.
The major change is adding `sort` directive to docs. For those docs which are copied
from internal packages `sort` is added via makefile command. For the rest it is added
manually since they're updated manually as well.
The rest of changes is connected with markdown formatting. For example, changing headers
in some files (`##` => `#`) makes navigation on .github.io to look better. This especially
useful for `changelog` docs.
Table of contents for `vmctl` is dropped, since we already have it autogenerated on .github.io.
No link changes expected. The corresponding PR to `cluster` branch will be made in follow-up PR.
3s evaluation interval is too small for practical setups. It can result in increased load on datasource.
So it is better to remove it from example config args, which are usually copy-pasted by novice users.
The commit adds a support for template function `query`,
`first` and `value`. The function `query` executes
a MetricsQL query for active alerts. In vmalert we
update templates on every evaluation for active alerts
to keep them up to date. With `query` func it may become
a perf issue since it will fire a query on every execution.
We should keep it in mind for now.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/539
Description for `-rule` flag uses as example specific chars like asterisks
which could be interpreted wrong by different shells. To avoid this, description
now contains quoted flag values.
See also #708
`external.label` flag supposed to help to distinguish alert or recording rules
source in situations when more than one `vmalert` runs for the same datasource
or AlertManager.
The change adds no new functionality and aims to move flags definitions
to subpackages that are using them. This should improve readability
of the main function.
app/vmalert: add support for TLS configuration
Add support for TLS optional configuration in a similar fashion to what
is currently supported in other vmutils such as vmagent. TLS
configuration options are distinct for datasource, remoteRead,
remoteWrite as well as notifier.
Uniqueness of rule is now defined by combination of its name, expression and
labels. The hash of the combination is now used as rule ID and identifies rule within the group.
Set of rules from coreos/kube-prometheus was added for testing purposes to
verify compatibility. The check also showed that `vmalert` doesn't support
`query` template function that was mentioned as limitation in README.
The feature allows to speed up group rules execution by
executing them concurrently.
Change also contains README changes to reflect configuration
details.
* vmalert: Add recording rules support.
Recording rules support required additional service refactoring since
it wasn't planned to support them from the very beginning. The list
of changes is following:
* new entity RecordingRule was added for writing results of MetricsQL
expressions into remote storage;
* interface Rule now unites both recording and alerting rules;
* configuration parser was moved to separate package and now performs
more strict validation;
* new endpoint for listing all groups and rules in json format was added;
* evaluation interval may be set to every particular group;
* vmalert: uncomment tests
* vmalert: rm outdated TODO
* vmalert: fix typos in README
* feat: add remoteWrite.maxQueueSize to reduce queue full
* rename remote(write|read) flags to remote(Write|Read) for the sake of consistency
Co-authored-by: xiaobeibei <xiaobeibei@bigo.sg>
The change introduces new entity `manager` which replaces
`watchdog`, decouples requestHandler and groups. Manager
supposed to control life cycle of groups, rules and
config reloads.
Groups export an ID method which returns a hash
from filename and group name. ID supposed to be unique
identifier across all loaded groups.
Some tests were added to improve coverage.
Bug with wrong annotation value if $value is used in
templates after metrics being restored fixed.
Notifier interface was extended to accept context.
New set of metrics was introduced for config reload.
* app/vmalert: restore alerts state from datasource metrics
Vmalert will restore alerts state for rules that have `rule.For` > 0 from previously written timeseries via `remotewrite.url` flag.
* app/vmalert: mention remotewerite and remoteread configuration in README
