I was looking for a way to escalate the alert after it was firing for a period of time. Looks like defining the alert twice with different for and label will do the trick. Thanks for you assistance Julius.
On Friday, January 22, 2021 at 1:16:17 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > If your goal is to send an alert notification only after it has been > firing for some time, the usual way of doing that in Prometheus would be to > use the "for" duration field in the alerting rule to define how long the > alert has to be active before it transitions from "pending" into "firing" > state (at which point it gets sent to AM and routed there). > > If you do want to route it before that duration already, but to a > different subtree / notifier in your AM routes, you could define the > alerting rule twice in Prometheus with differentiating labels and different > "for" durations. > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:58 PM steve waldron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it possible to add a label with a dynamic value? for example - the >> amount of time an alert has been firing? if so, any examples of PROMQL >> queries to accomplish this? >> >> I'm trying to determine if routes can be created using a label defined by >> length of time an alert has been firing. >> >> Thanks , >> Steve >> >> -- >> 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/7678533f-7140-4bf6-8fa7-37081ab37ae4n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/7678533f-7140-4bf6-8fa7-37081ab37ae4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > Julius Volz > PromLabs - promlabs.com > -- 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/408df294-21c2-4fff-b9e3-3281312fe100n%40googlegroups.com.
