alerta-contrib/plugins/prometheus

Prometheus Alertmanager Plugin

Two-way integration with Prometheus which will silence alerts in Alertmanager when alerts are ack'ed in the Alerta console and delete silences if those alerts are manually re-opened.

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Installation

Clone the GitHub repo and run:

$ python setup.py install

Or, to install remotely from GitHub run:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/alerta/alerta-contrib.git#subdirectory=plugins/prometheus

Note: If Alerta is installed in a python virtual environment then plugins need to be installed into the same environment for Alerta to dynamically discover them.

Configuration

Add prometheus to the list of enabled PLUGINS in alertad.conf server configuration file and set plugin-specific variables either in the server configuration file or as environment variables.

PLUGINS = ['prometheus']

The below settings are configured with reasonable defaults:

ALERTMANAGER_API_URL = 'http://localhost:9093'
ALERTMANAGER_SILENCE_DAYS = 1

Or, if you want to inherit silence timeout from ack timeout:

ALERTMANAGER_API_URL = 'http://localhost:9093'
ALERTMANAGER_SILENCE_FROM_ACK = True

Prometheus docs specify that prometheus should send all alerts to all alertmanagers. If you have configured your ALERTMANAGER_API_URL to be a load balanced endpoint that mirrors requests to a set of alertmanagers then the following setting will create/remove silences if alertmanager has set the externalUrl, the following will configure alerta to use that for silences instead of the Alertmanager API URL.

Alertmanager syncs silences across all alertmanagers so only sendng it to one AM is appropriate. Using a load-balanced API that mirrors requests will create one unique silenceId per alertmanager instance and sync them across all alertmanagers, which is not necessary.

ALERTMANAGER_USE_EXTERNALURL_FOR_SILENCES = True

Robust Perception Demo Example

PLUGINS = ['reject','prometheus']
ALERTMANAGER_API_URL = 'http://demo.robustperception.io:9093'  # default=http://localhost:9093
ALERTMANAGER_SILENCE_DAYS = 2  # default=1

Authentication

Prometheus Alertmanager does not provide any form of authentication by default. For convenience, this plugin will support Basic Auth if it has been configured (using a reverse proxy or otherwise). Any other form of authentication will require development work by the user.

Example of BasicAuth configuration

ALERTMANAGER_API_URL = 'http://localhost:9093'
ALERTMANAGER_USERNAME = 'promuser'
ALERTMANAGER_PASSWORD = 'prompass'

Troubleshooting

Restart Alerta API and confirm that the plugin has been loaded and enabled.

Set DEBUG=True in the alertad.conf configuration file and look for log entries similar to below:

2016-11-20 23:02:40,623 - alerta.plugins[7394]: DEBUG - Server plug-in 'prometheus' found. [in /var/lib/.virtualenvs/alerta/lib/python2.7/site-packages/alerta_server-4.8.11-py2.7.egg/alerta/plugins/__init__.py:50]
2016-11-20 23:02:40,623 - alerta.plugins[7394]: DEBUG - Server plug-in 'prometheus' not enabled in 'PLUGINS'. [in /var/lib/.virtualenvs/alerta/lib/python2.7/site-packages/alerta_server-4.8.11-py2.7.egg/alerta/plugins/__init__.py:59]

2016-11-21 10:42:55,572 - alerta.plugins.prometheus[8268]: DEBUG - Alertmanager: Add silence for alertname=DiskFull instance=web01 [in build/bdist.macosx-10.12-x86_64/egg/alerta_prometheus.py:35]
2016-11-21 10:42:55,582 - requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[8268]: INFO - Starting new HTTP connection (1): demo.robustperception.io [in /var/lib/.virtualenvs/alerta/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:214]
2016-11-21 10:42:55,677 - requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool[8268]: DEBUG - "POST /api/v1/silences HTTP/1.1" 200 44 [in /var/lib/.virtualenvs/alerta/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests-2.11.1-py2.7.egg/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:401]
2016-11-21 10:42:55,711 - alerta.plugins.prometheus[8268]: DEBUG - Alertmanager: 200 - {"status":"success","data":{"silenceId":29}} [in build/bdist.macosx-10.12-x86_64/egg/alerta_prometheus.py:59]
2016-11-21 10:42:55,715 - alerta.plugins.prometheus[8268]: DEBUG - Alertmanager: Added silenceId 29 to attributes [in build/bdist.macosx-10.12-x86_64/egg/alerta_prometheus.py:67]

References

• Alertmanager Silences: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/alertmanager/#silences
• Robust Perception On-line Demo: http://demo.robustperception.io:9090/consoles/index.html

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Nick Satterly. Available under the MIT License.