Value of `-dedup.minScrapeInterval` comand-line flag must be higher than `evaluation_interval` in order to make sure that only one sample on each evaluation will be left after deduplication.
Moreover, value of `-dedup.minScrapeInterval` must be a multiple of vmalert's `evaluation_interval` in order to make sure that samples will be aligned between deduplication window periods.
See: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4774#issuecomment-1663940811
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* Revert "vmalert: unittest support stale datapoint (#4696)"
This reverts commit 0b44df7ec8.
* Revert "docs: specify min version and limitations for vmalert's unit tests"
This reverts commit a24541bd
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Revert "vmalert: init unit test (#4596)"
This reverts commit da60a68d
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: mention unittest revert in changelog
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(cherry picked from commit 9f1b9b86cc)
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The important change is to highlight that restore procedure happens
only once and only for already loaded rules. Config hot-reload
doesn't trigger the restore procedure.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: make `httpAuth.*` flags description less ambiguous
Currently, it may confuse users whether `httpAuth.*` flags are used by HTTP client or server configuration(see https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4586 for example).
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
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* vmselect: introduce `search.skipSlowReplicas` cmd-line flag
vmselect has two logical conditions during request processing when
`-replicationFactor` cmd-line flag is set:
1. If at least `len(storageNodes) - replicationFactor` responded, it could skip
waiting for the rest of nodes to respond. This could lead to problems described
here https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1207.
2. Mark response as partial if less than `len(storageNodes) - replicationFactor` responded
without an error.
The P1 showed itself error-prone and became the main reason why
`-replicationFactor` wasn't recommended to use at vmselect level.
However, this optimization could be still very useful in situations
when there are slow and fast replicas in cluster.
But P2 remains viable and important conditionless.
Hiding P1 behind the feature-flag `search.skipSlowReplicas`
should make `-replicationFactor` flag usable again. And let users
choose whether they want P1 to be respected.
Related issues
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1207https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/711
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* docs: update changelog
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vmalert: allow disabling of `step` param attached to instant queries
This might be useful for using vmalert with datasources that to not support this param,
unlike VictoriaMetrics.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4573
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
By default, vmalert will make multiple retry attempts with exponential delay.
The total time spent during retry attempts shouldn't exceed `-remoteWrite.retryMaxTime` (default is 30s).
When retry time is exceeded vmalert drops the data dedicated for `-remoteWrite.url`.
Before, vmalert dropped data after 5 retry attempts with 1s delay between attempts (not configurable).
See `-remoteWrite.retryMinInterval` and `-remoteWrite.retryMaxTime` cmd-line flags.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikolay <nik@victoriametrics.com>
app/vmalert: detect alerting rules which don't match any series at all
vmalert starts to understand /query responses which contain object:
```
"stats":{"seriesFetched": "42"}
```
If object is present, vmalert parses it and populates a new field
`SeriesFetched`. This field is then used to populate the new metric
`vmalert_alerting_rules_last_evaluation_series_fetched` and to
display warnings in the vmalert's UI.
If response doesn't contain the new object (Prometheus or
VictoriaMetrics earlier than v1.90), then `SeriesFetched=nil`.
In this case, UI will contain no additional warnings.
And `vmalert_alerting_rules_last_evaluation_series_fetched` will
be set to `-1`. Negative value of the metric will help to compile
correct alerting rule in follow-up.
Thanks for the initial implementation to @Haleygo
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/4056
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/4039
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Supports using `**` for `-rule` and `-rule.templates`: `dir/**/*.tpl` loads contents of dir and all subdirectories recursively.
See: #4041
Signed-off-by: Zakhar Bessarab <z.bessarab@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Artem Navoiev <tenmozes@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikolay <nik@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/httpserver: introduce `-http.maxConcurrentRequests` command-line flag
Introduce `-http.maxConcurrentRequests` command-line flag to protect
VM components from resource exhaustion during unexpected spikes of HTTP requests.
By default, the new flag's value is set to 0 which means no limits are applied.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/httpserver: mention http.maxConcurrentRequests in docs
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- Document the change at docs/CHANGELOG.md
- Add `Reading rules from object storage` section to docs/vmalert.md
- Add `s3` prefix to command-line flags related to the configuration of s3 and gcs clients
- Explicitly mention that reading rules from object storage is supported only in enterprise version
Stress the importance of specifying of all Alertmanager
URLs in vmalert's `-notifier.url` or `notifier.config`
if it runs in cluster mode.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3547
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Allow configuring the default number of stored rule's update states in memory
via global `-rule.updateEntriesLimit` command-line flag or per-rule via rule's
`update_entries_limit` configuration param.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* flag reference update
there is no flag `-datasource.disablePathAppend` and datasource actually checking for `-remoteRead.disablePathAppend`
* update source for doc as well
The default list of alerting rules contains the basic
rules for checking vmalert's health state and is recommended
to use for monitoring vmalert deployments.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Previously the `quotesEscape` function was escaping only double quotes.
This wasn't enough, since the input string could contain other special chars,
which must be escaped when put inside JSON string. For example, carriage return and line feed chars (\n\r),
backslash char, etc. This led to the following issues, which were improperly fixed:
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/890 - this issue
was "fixed" by introducing the `crlfEscape` function, which led to unnecessary
complications in user templates, while not fixing various corner cases
such as backslash chars in the input string.
See 1de15ad490
- https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3139 - this issue
was "fixed" by urlencoding the whole string passed to -external.alert.source
command-line flag. This led to invalid urls, which couldn't be parsed by Grafana.
See 00c838353d
and 4bd0244599
This commit properly encodes the input string passed to `quotesEscape`, so it can be safely embedded inside JSON strings.
This commit deprecates crlfEscape template function and adds the following new template functions:
- strvalue and stripDomain - these functions are supported by Prometheus, so they were added
for compatibility purposes.
- jsonEscape and htmlEscape for converting the input string to valid quoted JSON string
and for html-escaping the input string, so it could be safely embedded as a plaintext
into html.
This commit also documents all supported template functions at https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmalert.html#template-functions
The deprecated crlfEscape function isn't documented on purpose, since its usefulness is negative in general case.
This reverts commit 00c838353d.
Reason for revert: it incorrectly fixes the issue https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3139 .
Now `-external.alert.source=explore?orgId=1&left=...` is converted to the following invalid url, which cannot be handled by Grafana:
https://grafana.example.com/explore%3ForgId%3D1%26left%3D...
The next commit will contain the correct fix of the issue - the `quotesEscape` function must
properly escape the string, so it could be embedded into JSON string. This function must
properly escape \n\r chars too. In this case the `crlfEscape` function becomes unnecessary.
Actually, the next commit makes the `crlfEscape` function deprecated.
The default value of `-datasource.queryStep` has changed, so we update
the troubleshooting docs accordingly.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Use vm_account_id and vm_project_id labels to be consistent with https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Cluster-VictoriaMetrics.html#multitenancy-via-labels
* Document the feature that vmalert now exposes vm_account_id and vm_project_id
labels if -clusterMode is set.
* Use literal strings instead of string constants for vm_account_id and vm_project_id.
This improves code readability.
Allow configuring authorization params per list of targets
in vmalert's notifier config for `static_configs`.
See https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2690
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* lib/{httpserver,netutil}: allow to define min and max TLS version of the http server
* lib/httpserver: added descriptions about tls supported versions
* lib/netutil: check minimal tls version, added supported tls versions to error
* wip
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
- Clarify the description for -datasource.queryStep command-line flag
- Consistently use a single dash in front of -datasource.queryStep command-line flag
- Update -help output at docs/vmalert.md
- Consistently use single dash in front of command-line flags instead of double dashes.
- Add a warning that too small -search.latencyOffset may lead to incomplete query results.
vmalert: add experimental feature of storing Rule's evaluation state
The new feature keeps last 20 state changes of each Rule
in memory. The state are available for view on the Rule's
view page. The page can be opened by clicking on `Details`
link next to Rule's name on the `/groups` page.
States change suppose to help in investigating cases when Rule
doesn't generate alerts or records.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The reason is to cover vulnerability GO-2022-0969
Found in: net/http@go1.18.5
Fixed in: net/http@go1.19.1
More info: https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-0969
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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* vmalert: add `debug` mode for alerting rules
Debug information includes alerts state changes and requests
sent to the datasource. Debug can be enabled only on rule's
level. It might be useful for debugging unexpected
behaviour of alerting rule.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3025
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: review fixes
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* Update app/vmalert/alerting.go
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: go fmt
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
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.
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vmalert can be successfully used with datasources
compatible with Prometheus HTTP API. So we remove comments or
notes in Readme which are saying opposite.
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* 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>
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>
* 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
Describe remoteWrite.url is used to persist rules and alerts state info,
and add an additional paragraph explaining the separation between
-remoteRead.url and -datasource.url.
Fixes#1810.
