On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 at 12:46, Alex Rosen <[email protected]> wrote:
> This page > <https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/alerting_rules/> > says: > "The $value variable holds the evaluated value of an alert instance." > > It would be great if this also included a more explicit definition, > because this definition isn't obvious to me. For example, if I have: > > > expr: sum(increase(some_counter[3h])) by (foo) < 1 > > > Which part of this is the $value? It can't be the entire expression, > because that's just a boolean value. > Alerts aren't booleans, every series that the alert expression returns becomes an alert instance. So in the above expression the values of the alerts would be the sum() - if any of them are smaller than 1. -- Brian Brazil www.robustperception.io -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/CAHJKeLoqKbDjdXFm0WtofOA82jf-FBZNYB3Wz3r%3DWVWMtazegg%40mail.gmail.com.
