Alert History (Show on Grafana Dashboard)

Waravich Vipanichkarn

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Aug 31, 2021, 2:27:49 AM8/31/21

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Sorry , Now I've got a question , If I want to list alerts history on grafana dashboard (This shows the history of all alerts) Do you have a dashboard template or any other solution?

There is a table showing the startdate and enddate of the alertmanager on table dashboard what should I do?

thanks.

Brian Candler

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Aug 31, 2021, 3:33:00 AM8/31/21

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If you're talking about Prometheus alerting history, then it's stored in some special timeseries, ALERTS and ALERTS_FOR_STATE

- see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52480567/count-alerts-fired-by-prometheus

You should be able to visualize those in Grafana just like any other timeseries.

If you're talking about Grafana alerting history, then that would be a question for a Grafana mailing list.

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Brian Candler

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Aug 31, 2021, 4:29:13 AM8/31/21

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This is a mailing list for Prometheus, not Grafana. Grafana has its own forum at community.grafana.com.

On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 09:21:25 UTC+1 peachw...@gmail.com wrote:

Sorry , Now I've got a question , If I want to list alerts history on grafana dashboard (This shows the history of all alerts) Do you have a dashboard template or any other solution?

There is a table showing the startdate and enddate of the alertmanager on table dashboard what should I do?

thanks.

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Stuart Clark

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Aug 31, 2021, 4:40:38 AM8/31/21

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There is a specific Grafana datasource for Alertmanager which might be
useful.

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Stuart Clark

Brian Candler

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Aug 31, 2021, 5:06:47 AM8/31/21

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On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 09:40:38 UTC+1 Stuart Clark wrote:

There is a specific Grafana datasource for Alertmanager which might be
useful.

Is that for the metrics returned by <alertmanager>:9093/metrics ?

If so, then that's mainly for aggregate alerting statistics ("how many notifications did I sent to pagerduty? What was the distribution of latencies?"), silences, and alertmanager's internal health (e.g. cluster gossip).

Stuart Clark

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Aug 31, 2021, 5:09:42 AM8/31/21

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No my understanding is that it uses the Alertmanager API and is
unrelated to metrics:
https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/camptocamp-prometheus-alertmanager-datasource/

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Stuart Clark

Brian Candler

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Aug 31, 2021, 5:15:03 AM8/31/21

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Ah that's interesting, thanks.

I can see it would be useful for displaying current alerts and silences in Grafana, in the style of karma or alerta. I don't expect it will retain much in the way of alert history though.

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