Getting the Age of alerts.

[Yagyansh S. Kumar]

Hi. I want to extract the age of the alerts(i.e from when the alert is Critical or Warning or even Resolved). Is this possible?

[Christian Hoffmann]

Hi,

On 3/17/20 10:33 AM, Yagyansh S. Kumar wrote:
> Hi. I want to extract the age of the alerts(i.e from when the alert is
> Critical or Warning or even Resolved). Is this possible?

Where are you looking for that?

Within Prometheus? You could try deriving that from the ALERTS meta
metric which gets generated automatically.

From the Alertmanager API? You should be able to get a startsAt value there.

Kind regards,
Christian

[Julien Pivotto]

On 17 Mar 22:33, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 3/17/20 10:33 AM, Yagyansh S. Kumar wrote:
> > Hi. I want to extract the age of the alerts(i.e from when the alert is
> > Critical or Warning or even Resolved). Is this possible?
>
> Where are you looking for that?
>
> Within Prometheus? You could try deriving that from the ALERTS meta
> metric which gets generated automatically.

Hi,

Within Prometheus you have the timestamp in ALERTS_FOR_STATE. However
that is more an "internal" metric that is there for keeping the state
of alerts across restarts, so use with care.

regards,

>
> From the Alertmanager API? You should be able to get a startsAt value there.
>
> Kind regards,
> Christian
>

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[Yagyansh S. Kumar]

Thanks for the help. But what is the format of this value that we are getting from ALERTS_FOR_STATE

ALERTS_FOR_STATE{alertname="OutOfMemoryWarn",cluster="cluster",instance="instance",job="job"severity="WARNING",source="prometheus"} 1584698633

What does this value represent.

On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 3:06:54 AM UTC+5:30, Julien Pivotto wrote:

On 17 Mar 22:33, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 3/17/20 10:33 AM, Yagyansh S. Kumar wrote:
> > Hi. I want to extract the age of the alerts(i.e from when the alert is
> > Critical or Warning or even Resolved). Is this possible?
>
> Where are you looking for that?
>
> Within Prometheus? You could try deriving that from the ALERTS meta
> metric which gets generated automatically.

Hi,

Within Prometheus you have the timestamp in ALERTS_FOR_STATE. However
that is more an "internal" metric that is there for keeping the state
of alerts across restarts, so use with care.

regards,

>
> From the Alertmanager API? You should be able to get a startsAt value there.
>
> Kind regards,
> Christian
>
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[Julien Pivotto]

On 20 Mar 03:22, Yagyansh S. Kumar wrote:
> Thanks for the help. But what is the format of this value that we are
> getting from ALERTS_FOR_STATE
>
> ALERTS_FOR_STATE{alertname="OutOfMemoryWarn",cluster="cluster",instance="instance",job="job"severity="WARNING",source="prometheus"}

> *1584698633*


It is a unix timestamp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

>
> What does this value represent.
>
> On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 3:06:54 AM UTC+5:30, Julien Pivotto wrote:
> >
> > On 17 Mar 22:33, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 3/17/20 10:33 AM, Yagyansh S. Kumar wrote:
> > > > Hi. I want to extract the age of the alerts(i.e from when the alert is
> > > > Critical or Warning or even Resolved). Is this possible?
> > >
> > > Where are you looking for that?
> > >
> > > Within Prometheus? You could try deriving that from the ALERTS meta
> > > metric which gets generated automatically.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Within Prometheus you have the timestamp in ALERTS_FOR_STATE. However
> > that is more an "internal" metric that is there for keeping the state
> > of alerts across restarts, so use with care.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > >
> > > From the Alertmanager API? You should be able to get a startsAt value
> > there.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Christian
> > >
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