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## VM Alert
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`vmalert` executes a list of given MetricsQL expressions (rules) and
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sends alerts to [Alert Manager](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager).
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### Features:
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* Integration with [VictoriaMetrics](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics) TSDB;
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* VictoriaMetrics [MetricsQL](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/MetricsQL)
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expressions validation;
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* Prometheus [alerting rules definition format](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/alerting_rules/#defining-alerting-rules)
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support;
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* Integration with [Alertmanager](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager);
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* Lightweight without extra dependencies.
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### TODO:
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* Persist alerts state as timeseries in TSDB. Currently, alerts state is stored
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in process memory only and will be lost on restart;
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* Configuration hot reload.
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### QuickStart
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To build `vmalert` from sources:
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```
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git clone https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics
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cd VictoriaMetrics
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make vmalert
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```
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The build binary will be placed to `VictoriaMetrics/bin` folder.
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To start using `vmalert` you will need the following things:
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* list of alert rules - PromQL/MetricsQL expressions to execute;
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* datasource address - reachable VictoriaMetrics instance for rules execution;
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* notifier address - reachable Alertmanager instance for processing,
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aggregating alerts and sending notifications.
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Then configure `vmalert` accordingly:
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```
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./bin/vmalert -rule=alert.rules \
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-datasource.url=http://localhost:8428 \
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-notifier.url=http://localhost:9093
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```
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Example for `.rules` file may be found [here](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/blob/master/app/vmalert/testdata/rules0-good.rules)
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`vmalert` runs evaluation for every group in a separate goroutine.
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Rules in group evaluated one-by-one sequentially.
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`vmalert` also runs a web-server (`-httpListenAddr`) for serving metrics and alerts endpoints:
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* `http://<vmalert-addr>/api/v1/alerts` - list of all active alerts;
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* `http://<vmalert-addr>/api/v1/<groupName>/<alertID>/status" ` - get alert status by ID.
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Used as alert source in AlertManager.
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* `http://<vmalert-addr>/metrics` - application metrics.
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### Configuration
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The shortlist of configuration flags is the following:
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```
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Usage of vmalert:
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-datasource.url string
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Victoria Metrics or VMSelect url. Required parameter. e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428
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-datasource.basicAuth.password string
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Optional basic auth password to use for -datasource.url
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-datasource.basicAuth.username string
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Optional basic auth username to use for -datasource.url
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-evaluationInterval duration
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How often to evaluate the rules. Default 1m (default 1m0s)
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-external.url string
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External URL is used as alert's source for sent alerts to the notifier
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-httpListenAddr string
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Address to listen for http connections (default ":8880")
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-notifier.url string
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Prometheus alertmanager URL. Required parameter. e.g. http://127.0.0.1:9093
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-remotewrite.url string
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Optional URL to remote-write compatible storage where to write timeseriesbased on active alerts. E.g. http://127.0.0.1:8428
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-rule value
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Path to the file with alert rules.
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Supports patterns. Flag can be specified multiple times.
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Examples:
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-rule /path/to/file. Path to a single file with alerting rules
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-rule dir/*.yaml -rule /*.yaml. Relative path to all .yaml files in "dir" folder,
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absolute path to all .yaml files in root.
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-rule.validateTemplates
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Indicates to validate annotation and label templates (default true)
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```
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Pass `-help` to `vmalert` in order to see the full list of supported
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command-line flags with their descriptions.
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### Contributing
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`vmalert` is mostly designed and built by VictoriaMetrics community.
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Feel free to share your experience and ideas for improving this
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software. Please keep simplicity as the main priority.
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