* vmalert: speed up state restore procedure on start
Alerts state restore procedure has been changed to become asynchronous.
It doesn't block groups start anymore which significantly improves vmalert's startup time.
Instead, state restore is called by each group in their goroutines after the first rules
evaluation.
While previously state restore attempt was made for all loaded alerting rules,
now it is called only for alerts which became active after the first evaluation.
This reduces the amount of API calls to the configured remote read URL.
This also means that `remoteRead.ignoreRestoreErrors` command-line flag becomes deprecated now
and will have no effect if configured.
See relevant issue https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/2608
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* make lint happy
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* Apply suggestions from code review
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Allow configuring the default number of stored rule's update states in memory
via global `-rule.updateEntriesLimit` command-line flag or per-rule via rule's
`update_entries_limit` configuration param.
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According to Ruler specification, only labels returned within time series
should be available for use in annotations.
For long time, vmalert didn't respect this rule. And in PR
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/2403
this was fixed for the sake of compatibility. However, this resulted
into users confusion, as they expected all configured and extra labels
to be available - https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/3013
This fix allows to use extra labels in Annotations. But in the case of conflicts
the original labels (extracted from time series) are preferred.
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
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vmalert: add experimental feature of storing Rule's evaluation state
The new feature keeps last 20 state changes of each Rule
in memory. The state are available for view on the Rule's
view page. The page can be opened by clicking on `Details`
link next to Rule's name on the `/groups` page.
States change suppose to help in investigating cases when Rule
doesn't generate alerts or records.
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vmalert: support `limit` param in groups definition
`limit` param limits number of time series samples produced by a single rule
during execution.
On reaching the limit rule will return an err.
Signed-off-by: lihaowei <haoweili35@gmail.com>
To improve compatibility with Prometheus alerting the order of
templates processing has changed.
Before, vmalert did all labels processing beforehand. It meant
all extra labels (such as `alertname`, `alertgroup` or rule labels)
were available in templating. All collisions were resolved in favour
of extra labels.
In Prometheus, only labels from the received metric are available in
templating, so no collisions are possible.
This change makes vmalert's behaviour similar to Prometheus.
For example, consider alerting rule which is triggered by time series
with `alertname` label. In vmalert, this label would be overriden
by alerting rule's name everywhere: for alert labels, for annotations, etc.
In Prometheus, it would be overriden for alert's labels only, but in annotations
the original label value would be available.
See more details here https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/issues/80
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* vmalert: split alert's `Start` field into `ActiveAt` and `Start`
The `ActiveAt` field identifies when alert becomes active for rules
with `for > 0`. Previously, this value was stored in field `Start`.
The field `Start` now identifies the moment alert became `FIRING`.
The split is needed in order to distinguish these two moments
in the API responses for alerts.
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* vmalert: support specific moment of time for rules evaluation
The Querier interface was extended to accept a new argument
used as a timestamp at which evaluation should be made.
It is needed to align rules execution time within the group.
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* vmalert: mark disappeared series as stale
Series generated by alerting rules, which were sent to remote write
now will be marked as stale if they will disappear on the next
evaluation. This would make ALERTS and ALERTS_FOR_TIME series
more precise.
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* wip
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* vmalert: evaluate rules at fixed timestamp
Before, time at which rules were evaluated was calculated
right before rule execution. The change makes sure
that timestamp is calculated only once per evalution round
and all rules are using the same timestamp.
It also updates the logic of resending of already resolved
alert notification.
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* vmalert: allow overridin `alertname` label value if it is present in response
Previously, `alertname` was always equal to the Alerting Rule name. Now,
its value can be overriden if series in response containt the different value
for this label.
The change is needed for improving compatibility with Prometheus.
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* vmalert: align rules evaluation in time
Now, evaluation timestamp for rules evaluates as if
there was no delay in rules evaluation. It means, that
rules will be evaluated at fixed timestamps+group_interval.
This way provides more consistent evaluation results and
improves compatibility with Prometheus,
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* vmalert: add metric for missed iterations
New metric `vmalert_iteration_missed_total` will show
whether rules evaluation round was missed.
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* vmalert: reduce delay before the initial rule evaluation in group
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* vmalert: rollback alertname override
According to the spec:
```
The alert name from the alerting rule (HighRequestLatency from the example above) MUST be added to the labels of the alert with the label name as alertname. It MUST override any existing alertname label.
```
https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#step-3
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
* vmalert: throw err immediately on dedup detection
```
The execution of an alerting rule MUST error out immediately and MUST NOT send any alerts
or add samples to samples receiver if there is more than one alert with the same labels
```
https://github.com/prometheus/compliance/blob/main/alert_generator/specification.md#step-4
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* vmalert: cleanup
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* vmalert: use strings builder to reduce allocs
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* vmalert: add support of `resendDelay` flag for alerts
Co-authored-by: dmitryk-dk <dmitry.kozlov@brightlocal.com>
Co-authored-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Service labels like `alertname` or `alertgroup` were attached
after template expanding for `labels` section. Because of this,
labels `alertname` or `alertgroup` weren't available for templating
in `labels` section of alert's definition.
This commit changes the order of labels attaching and adds a test
for verifying these labels availability.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/1921
Signed-off-by: hagen1778 <roman@victoriametrics.com>
Previously, ID for alert entity was generated without alertname or groupname.
This led to collision, when multiple alerting rules within the same group
producing same labelsets. E.g. expr: `sum(metric1) by (job) > 0` and
expr: `sum(metric2) by (job) > 0` could result into same labelset `job: "job"`.
The issue affects only UI and Web API parts of vmalert, because alert ID is used
only for displaying and finding active alerts. It does not affect state restore
procedure, since this label was added right before pushing to remote storage.
The change now adds all extra labels right after receiving response from the datasource.
And removes adding extra labels before pushing to remote storage.
Additionally, change introduces a new flag `Restored` which will be displayed in UI
for alerts which have been restored from remote storage on restart.
* vmalert: support rules backfilling (aka `replay`)
vmalert can `replay` configured rules in the past
and backfill results via remote write protocol.
It supports MetricsQL/PromQL storage as data source,
and can backfill data to remote write compatible
storage.
Supports recording and alerting rules `replay`. See more
details in README.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/836
* vmalert: review fixes
* vmalert: readme fixes
* changes vmalert Querier with per rule querier
it allows to changes some parametrs based on rule setting
for instance - alert type, tenant for cluster version or event endpoint url.
The previous implementation treated extra labels (global and rule labels) as
separate label set to returned time series labels. Hence, time series always contained
only original labels and alert ID was generated from sorted labels key-values.
Extra labels didn't affect the generated ID and were applied on the following actions:
- templating for Summary and Annotations;
- persisting state via remote write;
- restoring state via remote read.
Such behaviour caused difficulties on restore procedure because extra labels had to be dropped
before checking the alert ID, but that not always worked. Consider the case when expression
returns the following time series `up{job="foo"}` and rule has extra label `job=bar`.
This would mean that restored alert ID will be always different to the real time series because
of collision.
To solve the situation extra labels are now always applied beforehand and `vmalert` doesn't
store original labels anymore. However, this could result into a new error situation.
Consider the case when expression returns two time series `up{job="foo"}` and `up{job="baz"}`,
while rule has extra label `job=bar`. In such case, applying extra labels will result into
two identical time series and `vmalert` will return error:
`result contains metrics with the same labelset after applying rule labels`
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/870
Label `alertgroup` was introduced in #611 and automatically added to generated
time series. By mistake, this new label wasn't correctly purged on restore event
and affected alert's ID uniqueness. This commit removes `alertgroup` label
in restore function.
https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/870
`external.label` flag supposed to help to distinguish alert or recording rules
source in situations when more than one `vmalert` runs for the same datasource
or AlertManager.
The feature allows to speed up group rules execution by
executing them concurrently.
Change also contains README changes to reflect configuration
details.
* vmalert: Add recording rules support.
Recording rules support required additional service refactoring since
it wasn't planned to support them from the very beginning. The list
of changes is following:
* new entity RecordingRule was added for writing results of MetricsQL
expressions into remote storage;
* interface Rule now unites both recording and alerting rules;
* configuration parser was moved to separate package and now performs
more strict validation;
* new endpoint for listing all groups and rules in json format was added;
* evaluation interval may be set to every particular group;
* vmalert: uncomment tests
* vmalert: rm outdated TODO
* vmalert: fix typos in README
