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This guide explains the different ways in which you can use vmalert in conjunction with VictoriaMetrics Cloud

Metrics setup

Preconditions

Setup

Alerting and recording rules file(s)

You need to prepare file(s) with alerting or recording rules.

An example file with one alerting rule.

alerts.yml

groups:
  - name: common
    rules:
    - alert: instanceIsDown
      for: 1m
      expr: up == 0
      labels:
        severity: critical
      annotations:
        summary: "{{ $labels.job }} instance: {{$labels.instance }} is not up"
        description: "Job {{ $labels.job }}  instance: {{$labels.instance }} is not up for the last 1 minute"

VictoriaMetrics Cloud access token and deployment endpoint

To use vmalert with VictoriaMetrics Cloud, you must create a read/write token, or use an existing one. The token must have write access to ingest recording rules, ALERTS and ALERTS_FOR_STATE metrics, and read access for rules evaluation.

For instructions on how to create tokens, please refer to this section of the documentation.

Single-Node

Token created single Copy datasource single

Cluster

Token created cluster Reading datasource cluster Writing atasource cluster

vmalert configuration

Single-Node

Binary
export TOKEN=81e8226e-****-****-****-************ 
export MANAGED_VM_URL=https://gw-c15-1c.cloud.victoriametrics.com
export ALERTMANAGER_URL=http://localhost:9093 
./vmalert -rule=alerts.yml -datasource.url=$MANAGED_VM_URL -datasource.bearerToken=$TOKEN -notifier.url=$ALERTMANAGER_URL -remoteWrite.url=$MANAGED_VM_URL -remoteWrite.bearerToken=$TOKEN -remoteRead.url=$MANAGED_VM_URL -remoteRead.bearerToken=$TOKEN
Docker
export TOKEN=81e8226e-****-****-****-************ 
export MANAGED_VM_URL=https://gw-c15-1c.cloud.victoriametrics.com
export ALERTMANAGER_URL=http://alertmanager:9093 
docker run -it -p 8080:8080 -v $(pwd)/alerts.yml:/etc/alerts/alerts.yml victoriametrics/vmalert:v1.87.1 -datasource.url=$MANAGED_VM_URL -datasource.bearerToken=$TOKEN -remoteRead.url=$MANAGED_VM_URL -remoteRead.bearerToken=$TOKEN  -remoteWrite.url=$MANAGED_VM_URL -remoteWrite.bearerToken=$TOKEN  -notifier.url=$ALERTMANAGER_URL -rule="/etc/alerts/*.yml"
Helm Chart
export TOKEN=81e8226e-****-****-****-************
export MANAGED_VM_URL=https://gw-c15-1c.cloud.victoriametrics.com
export ALERTMANAGER=http://alertmanager:9093
cat <<EOF | helm install vmalert vm/victoria-metrics-alert -f -
server:
 datasource:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_URL
   bearer:
     token: $TOKEN
 remote:
   write:
     url: $MANAGED_VM_URL
     bearer:
       token: $TOKEN
   read:
     url: $MANAGED_VM_URL
     bearer:
       token: $TOKEN
 notifier:
   alertmanager:
     url: $ALERTMANAGER
 config:
   alerts:
     groups:
       - name: common
         rules:
           - alert: instanceIsDown
             for: 1m
             expr: up == 0
             labels:
               severity: critical
             annotations:
               summary: "{{ $labels.job }} instance: {{$labels.instance }} is not up"
               description: "Job {{ $labels.job }}  instance: {{$labels.instance }} is not up for the last 1 minute"
EOF
VMalert CRD for vmoperator
export TOKEN=81e8226e-****-****-****-************
export MANAGED_VM_URL=https://gw-c15-1c.cloud.victoriametrics.com
export ALERTMANAGER=http://alertmanager:9093
cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
kind: VMAlert
metadata:
 name: vmalert-managed-vm
spec:
 replicaCount: 1
 datasource:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_URL
   bearerTokenSecret:
     name: managed-token
     key: token
 remoteWrite:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_URL
   bearerTokenSecret:
     name: managed-token
     key: token
 remoteRead:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_URL
   bearerTokenSecret:
     name: managed-token
     key: token
 notifier:
   url: $ALERTMANAGER
 ruleSelector:
   matchLabels:
     type: managed
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
 name: managed-token
stringData:
 token: $TOKEN
EOF
Testing

You can ingest metric that will raise an alert

export TOKEN=81e8226e-****-****-****-*************
export MANAGED_VM_URL=https://gw-c15-1c.cloud.victoriametrics.com/
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -X POST "$MANAGED_VM_URLapi/v1/import/prometheus" -d 'up{job="vmalert-test", instance="localhost"} 0'

Cluster

Binary
export TOKEN=76bc5470-****-****-****-************
export MANAGED_VM_READ_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/select/0/prometheus/
export MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/insert/0/prometheus/
export ALERTMANAGER_URL=http://localhost:9093 
./vmalert -rule=alerts.yml -datasource.url=$MANAGED_VM_READ_URL -datasource.bearerToken=$TOKEN -notifier.url=$ALERTMANAGER_URL -remoteWrite.url=$MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL -remoteWrite.bearerToken=$TOKEN -remoteRead.url=$MANAGED_VM_READ_URL -remoteRead.bearerToken=$TOKEN
Docker
export TOKEN=76bc5470-****-****-****-************
export MANAGED_VM_READ_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/select/0/prometheus/
export MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/insert/0/prometheus/
export ALERTMANAGER_URL=http://alertmanager:9093 
docker run -it -p 8080:8080 -v $(pwd)/alerts.yml:/etc/alerts/alerts.yml victoriametrics/vmalert:v1.87.1 -datasource.url=$MANAGED_VM_READ_URL -datasource.bearerToken=$TOKEN -remoteRead.url=$MANAGED_VM_READ_URL -remoteRead.bearerToken=$TOKEN  -remoteWrite.url=$MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL -remoteWrite.bearerToken=$TOKEN  -notifier.url=$ALERTMANAGER_URL -rule="/etc/alerts/*.yml"
Helm Chart
export TOKEN=76bc5470-****-****-****-************
export MANAGED_VM_READ_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/select/0/prometheus/
export MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/insert/0/prometheus/
export ALERTMANAGER=http://alertmanager:9093
cat <<EOF | helm install vmalert vm/victoria-metrics-alert -f -
server:
 datasource:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_READ_URL
   bearer:
     token: $TOKEN
 remote:
   write:
     url: $MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL
     bearer:
       token: $TOKEN
   read:
     url: $MANAGED_VM_READ_URL
     bearer:
       token: $TOKEN
 notifier:
   alertmanager:
     url: $ALERTMANAGER
 config:
   alerts:
     groups:
       - name: common
         rules:
           - alert: instanceIsDown
             for: 1m
             expr: up == 0
             labels:
               severity: critical
             annotations:
               summary: "{{ $labels.job }} instance: {{$labels.instance }} is not up"
               description: "Job {{ $labels.job }}  instance: {{$labels.instance }} is not up for the last 1 minute"
EOF
VMalert CRD for vmoperator
export TOKEN=76bc5470-****-****-****-************
export MANAGED_VM_READ_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/select/0/prometheus/
export MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/insert/0/prometheus/
export ALERTMANAGER=http://alertmanager:9093
cat << EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
kind: VMAlert
metadata:
 name: vmalert-managed-vm
spec:
 replicaCount: 1
 datasource:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_READ_URL
   bearerTokenSecret:
     name: managed-token
     key: token
 remoteWrite:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL
   bearerTokenSecret:
     name: managed-token
     key: token
 remoteRead:
   url: $MANAGED_VM_READ_URL
   bearerTokenSecret:
     name: managed-token
     key: token
 notifier:
   url: $ALERTMANAGER
 ruleSelector:
   matchLabels:
     type: managed
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
 name: managed-token
stringData:
 token: $TOKEN
EOF
Testing

You can ingest metric that will raise an alert

export TOKEN=76bc5470-****-****-****-************
export MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URL=https://gw-c15-1a.cloud.victoriametrics.com/insert/0/prometheus/
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -X POST "$MANAGED_VM_WRITE_URLapi/v1/import/prometheus" -d 'up{job="vmalert-test", instance="localhost"} 0'