On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 09:25, Roland Mieslinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we are using the same set of alert rules for both, our production and qa
> environment, with the severity label set to a value based on what is
> appropriate for production.
> As a consequence, alert severity is too high for most alerts in our qa
> environment.
>

> The environment is available as a label form every metric, I could of
> course duplicate all alert rules, filter by environment label, and set the
> appropriate severity label; very tedious in the long run, but so far the
> only solution that came to my mind,
>

The usual way I'd handle this is via routing alerts differently in the
alertmanager for dev/qa environments.

Brian


>
> Are there better ways to achieve this, what am I missing?
>
> Something like the ternary operator would be helpful in this case, e. g.:
>   labels:
>     severity: environment=="qa" ? "warn" : "page"
>
> Alternativly some kind of "functional if " could solve this as well:
>   labels:
>     severity: iff(environment=="qa", "warn", "page")
> note: depending on the implementation this could cause performance issues
> if the expression engine requires
>   evaluation of all parameters passed to the function
>
>
>
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