* 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 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>
* 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
* changes vmalert Querier with per rule querier
it allows to changes some parametrs based on rule setting
for instance - alert type, tenant for cluster version or event endpoint url.
The previous implementation treated extra labels (global and rule labels) as
separate label set to returned time series labels. Hence, time series always contained
only original labels and alert ID was generated from sorted labels key-values.
Extra labels didn't affect the generated ID and were applied on the following actions:
- templating for Summary and Annotations;
- persisting state via remote write;
- restoring state via remote read.
Such behaviour caused difficulties on restore procedure because extra labels had to be dropped
before checking the alert ID, but that not always worked. Consider the case when expression
returns the following time series `up{job="foo"}` and rule has extra label `job=bar`.
This would mean that restored alert ID will be always different to the real time series because
of collision.
To solve the situation extra labels are now always applied beforehand and `vmalert` doesn't
store original labels anymore. However, this could result into a new error situation.
Consider the case when expression returns two time series `up{job="foo"}` and `up{job="baz"}`,
while rule has extra label `job=bar`. In such case, applying extra labels will result into
two identical time series and `vmalert` will return error:
`result contains metrics with the same labelset after applying rule labels`
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/870
* app/vmalert: extend metrics set exported by `vmalert` #573
New metrics were added to improve observability:
+ vmalert_alerts_pending{alertname, group} - number of pending alerts per group
per alert;
+ vmalert_alerts_acitve{alertname, group} - number of active alerts per group
per alert;
+ vmalert_alerts_error{alertname, group} - is 1 if alertname ended up with error
during prev execution, is 0 if no errors happened;
+ vmalert_recording_rules_error{recording, group} - is 1 if recording rule
ended up with error during prev execution, is 0 if no errors happened;
* vmalert_iteration_total{group, file} - now contains group and file name labels.
This should improve control over specific groups;
* vmalert_iteration_duration_seconds{group, file} - now contains group and file name labels. This should improve control over specific groups;
Some collisions for alerts and recording rules are possible, because neither
group name nor alert/recording rule name are unique for compatibility reasons.
Commit contains list of TODOs for Unregistering metrics since groups and rules
are ephemeral and could be removed without application restart. In order to
unlock Unregistering feature corresponding PR was filed - https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/pull/13
* app/vmalert: extend metrics set exported by `vmalert` #573
The changes are following:
* add an ID label to rules metrics, since `name` collisions within one group is
a common case - see the k8s example alerts;
* supports metrics unregistering on rule updates. Consider the case when one rule
was added or removed from the group, or the whole group was added or removed.
The change depends on https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/pull/16
where race condition for Unregister method was fixed.
* 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
Before the change we were sending notifications to notifier
if following conditions are met:
* alert is in Fire state
* alert is in Inactive state
We were sending Inactive notifications to resolve alert ASAP.
Unfortunately, we were sending resolves for Pending alerts that become
Inactive, which is wrong.
In this change we delete alert from the active list if
it was Pending and become Inactive. In this way we now
have Inactive alerts only if they were in state Fire before.
See test change for example.
The check for non-nil remoteRead was mistakenly dropped
during refactoring which caused panics when `vmalert`
wasn't configured with `remoteRead` flag.
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
