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>
* vmalert: retry datasource requests with EOF or unexpected EOF errors
Retry failed read request on the closed connection one more time.
This may improve rules execution reliability when connection
between vmalert and datasource closes unexpectedly.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: fix old tests
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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* vmalert: speed up state restore procedure on start
Alerts state restore procedure has been changed to become asynchronous.
It doesn't block groups start anymore which significantly improves vmalert's startup time.
Instead, state restore is called by each group in their goroutines after the first rules
evaluation.
While previously state restore attempt was made for all loaded alerting rules,
now it is called only for alerts which became active after the first evaluation.
This reduces the amount of API calls to the configured remote read URL.
This also means that `remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors` command-line flag becomes deprecated now
and will have no effect if configured.
See relevant issue https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2608
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* make lint happy
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* Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Aliaksandr Valialkin <valyala@victoriametrics.com>
Method `metrics()` now pre-allocates slices for labels
and results from query responses. This reduces the number
of allocations on the hot path for instant requests.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The recent change in modifying default value
of `datasource.queryStep` flag resulted in situation
where replay mode was always running queries with
step=`datasource.queryStep`. When it should always
use rule's evaluation interval.
The fix is related not to replay mode only, but
for all Range requests. Now step param is set
individually for each mode.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@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
Change default value for command-line flag `datasource.queryStep` from `0s` to `5m`.
Param `step` is added by vmalert to every rule evaluation request sent to datasource.
Before this change, `step` was equal to group's evaluation interval by default.
Param `step` for instant queries defines how far VM can look back for the last written data point.
The change supposed to improve reliability of the rules evaluation when evaluation interval
is lower than scraping interval.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
The change adds an example of `curl` command to the Rule's page.
The command is generated for each recorded state. It is supposed
user can just copy&execute the command to see what was returned
to vmalert.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* 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>
ioutil.ReadAll is deprecated since Go1.16 - see https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.16#ioutil
VictoriaMetrics requires at least Go1.18, so it is OK to switch from ioutil.ReadAll to io.ReadAll.
This is a follow-up for 02ca2342ab
Other components, such as `vmagent`, mark these flags as sensitive and
hide them from the `/metrics` endpoint by default. This commit adds
similar handling to the `vmalert` component, hiding them by default, to
prevent logging of secrets inappropriately.
Showing of these values is controlled by an additional flag.
Follow up to https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2947
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>
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: 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
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* 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>
When using `vmalert` with older Prometheus versions, the passed
`step=2m` may be parsed by Prometheus with an err: "cannot parse \"2m0s\" to a valid duration".
In order to improve compatibility vmalert will always convert step duration to seconds.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1943
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* 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>
This removes the unneeded level of indirection and improves code readability.
The "prometheus" and "graphite" constants aren't going to change in the future, so there is no sense in hiding them behind constants.
* vmalert: adjust `http.Transport.MaxIdleConns` value accordingly to `http.Transport.MaxIdleConnsPerHost`
`http.Transport.MaxIdleConnsPerHost` setting is controlled by `datasource.maxIdleConnections` flag,
while `http.Transport.MaxIdleConns` is inherited from DefaultTransport and is equal to `100`.
The fix adjusts `http.Transport.MaxIdleConns` value if it is lower than `http.Transport.MaxIdleConnsPerHost`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmauth: adjust `http.Transport.MaxIdleConns` value accordingly to `http.Transport.MaxIdleConnsPerHost`
`http.Transport.MaxIdleConnsPerHost` setting is controlled by `maxIdleConnsPerBackend` flag,
while `http.Transport.MaxIdleConns` is inherited from DefaultTransport and is equal to `100`.
The fix adjusts `http.Transport.MaxIdleConns` value if it is lower than `http.Transport.MaxIdleConnsPerHost`.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* 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: fix mistake with object reuse while parsing response
During the refactoring, the wrong optimisations was applied in
parse function which caused metric fields reset. The change removes
optimisation.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1369
* vmalert: add test to cover multiple metrics in one response
* 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
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.
Starting from v1.56.0 VM supports `round_digits` which allows to limit
the number of digits after the decimal point in response value. The feature
can be used to reduce entropy of produced by recording rules values
and significantly improve the compression. See more details in link below.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/525
* Simplify arguments list for fn `queryDataSource` to improve readbility
* vmalert: adjust `time` param according to rule evaluation interval
With this change, vmalert will start to use rule's evaluation interval
for truncating the `time` param. This is mostly needed to produce consistent
time series with timestamps unaffected by vmalert start time. Now, timestamp
becomes predictable.
Additionally, adjustment is similar to what Grafana does for plotting range graphs.
Hence, recording rule series and recording rule expression plotted in grafana
suppose to become similar in most of cases.
