K_Event_Count{EvId="24171643",EvMessage="fan alarm"}
This event message and this event Id will be available for this metric for
only one data point. It will not be available in the next datapoint. In
other words, its availability will be only for 15s.
On Monday, October 19, 2020 at 6:54:49 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
> What type of metric are we talking about? A gauge? Prometheus scrapes it's
> targets continuously so there should be a continuous stream of data points
> forming a series, not just a single data point when a event occurs. This
> sounds more like a log to me. It would be helpful if you could post your
> rule. It sounds like a gauge that goes up to 1 and than back to 0 directly,
> flapping around like that. For events I recommend you to switch to a
> counter instead.
>
> Since you have mentioned the alert going into a pending state (yellow) and
> than going back within 15 seconds I assume that you evaluation interval is
> above 15s. If it was below that, the alert should have fired. You can try
> putting the rule into it's own group with a low evaluation interval (5s for
> example) just to try it out. But in the long term you should do something
> about the rule and / or the metric itself
>
> [email protected] schrieb am Montag, 19. Oktober 2020 um 23:02:39 UTC+2:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a metric which sends data only in case of a specific event. In
>> other words, it will not have regular continuous telemetry every 15
>> seconds, but it will be there for a single data point. Now, I configured an
>> alert to check if the metric exists (did not include any 'for' condition in
>> the rule as there is no need to wait), an alert should trigger. What is
>> happening is that when the metric becomes available in Prometheus, the rule
>> gets activated to yellow, but instead of firing, it automatically goes
>> away within 15 seconds. Is there some additional setting I have to do to
>> alert on event based metric which lasts for only 1 single datapoint or 15s
>> ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Arnav
>>
>
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