prometheus/rules/alerting.go
2017-05-16 16:48:37 +02:00

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// Copyright 2013 The Prometheus Authors
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
package rules
import (
"fmt"
"net/url"
"sync"
"time"
"golang.org/x/net/context"
html_template "html/template"
"github.com/prometheus/common/log"
"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pkg/labels"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pkg/timestamp"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/promql"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/template"
"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/util/strutil"
)
const (
// AlertMetricName is the metric name for synthetic alert timeseries.
alertMetricName = "ALERTS"
// AlertNameLabel is the label name indicating the name of an alert.
alertNameLabel = "alertname"
// AlertStateLabel is the label name indicating the state of an alert.
alertStateLabel = "alertstate"
)
// AlertState denotes the state of an active alert.
type AlertState int
const (
// StateInactive is the state of an alert that is neither firing nor pending.
StateInactive AlertState = iota
// StatePending is the state of an alert that has been active for less than
// the configured threshold duration.
StatePending
// StateFiring is the state of an alert that has been active for longer than
// the configured threshold duration.
StateFiring
)
func (s AlertState) String() string {
switch s {
case StateInactive:
return "inactive"
case StatePending:
return "pending"
case StateFiring:
return "firing"
}
panic(fmt.Errorf("unknown alert state: %v", s.String()))
}
// Alert is the user-level representation of a single instance of an alerting rule.
type Alert struct {
State AlertState
Labels labels.Labels
Annotations labels.Labels
// The value at the last evaluation of the alerting expression.
Value float64
// The interval during which the condition of this alert held true.
// ResolvedAt will be 0 to indicate a still active alert.
ActiveAt, ResolvedAt time.Time
}
// An AlertingRule generates alerts from its vector expression.
type AlertingRule struct {
// The name of the alert.
name string
// The vector expression from which to generate alerts.
vector promql.Expr
// The duration for which a labelset needs to persist in the expression
// output vector before an alert transitions from Pending to Firing state.
holdDuration time.Duration
// Extra labels to attach to the resulting alert sample vectors.
labels labels.Labels
// Non-identifying key/value pairs.
annotations labels.Labels
// Protects the below.
mtx sync.Mutex
// A map of alerts which are currently active (Pending or Firing), keyed by
// the fingerprint of the labelset they correspond to.
active map[uint64]*Alert
}
// NewAlertingRule constructs a new AlertingRule.
func NewAlertingRule(name string, vec promql.Expr, hold time.Duration, lbls, anns labels.Labels) *AlertingRule {
return &AlertingRule{
name: name,
vector: vec,
holdDuration: hold,
labels: lbls,
annotations: anns,
active: map[uint64]*Alert{},
}
}
// Name returns the name of the alert.
func (r *AlertingRule) Name() string {
return r.name
}
func (r *AlertingRule) equal(o *AlertingRule) bool {
return r.name == o.name && labels.Equal(r.labels, o.labels)
}
func (r *AlertingRule) sample(alert *Alert, ts time.Time, set bool) promql.Sample {
lb := labels.NewBuilder(r.labels)
for _, l := range alert.Labels {
lb.Set(l.Name, l.Value)
}
lb.Set(labels.MetricName, alertMetricName)
lb.Set(labels.AlertName, r.name)
lb.Set(alertStateLabel, alert.State.String())
s := promql.Sample{
Metric: lb.Labels(),
Point: promql.Point{T: timestamp.FromTime(ts), V: 0},
}
if set {
s.V = 1
}
return s
}
// resolvedRetention is the duration for which a resolved alert instance
// is kept in memory state and consequentally repeatedly sent to the AlertManager.
const resolvedRetention = 15 * time.Minute
// Eval evaluates the rule expression and then creates pending alerts and fires
// or removes previously pending alerts accordingly.
func (r *AlertingRule) Eval(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time, engine *promql.Engine, externalURL *url.URL) (promql.Vector, error) {
query, err := engine.NewInstantQuery(r.vector.String(), ts)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
res, err := query.Exec(ctx).Vector()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
r.mtx.Lock()
defer r.mtx.Unlock()
// Create pending alerts for any new vector elements in the alert expression
// or update the expression value for existing elements.
resultFPs := map[uint64]struct{}{}
for _, smpl := range res {
// Provide the alert information to the template.
l := make(map[string]string, len(smpl.Metric))
for _, lbl := range smpl.Metric {
l[lbl.Name] = lbl.Value
}
tmplData := struct {
Labels map[string]string
Value float64
}{
Labels: l,
Value: smpl.V,
}
// Inject some convenience variables that are easier to remember for users
// who are not used to Go's templating system.
defs := "{{$labels := .Labels}}{{$value := .Value}}"
expand := func(text string) string {
tmpl := template.NewTemplateExpander(
ctx,
defs+string(text),
"__alert_"+r.Name(),
tmplData,
model.Time(timestamp.FromTime(ts)),
engine,
externalURL,
)
result, err := tmpl.Expand()
if err != nil {
result = fmt.Sprintf("<error expanding template: %s>", err)
log.Warnf("Error expanding alert template %v with data '%v': %s", r.Name(), tmplData, err)
}
return result
}
lb := labels.NewBuilder(smpl.Metric).Del(labels.MetricName)
for _, l := range r.labels {
lb.Set(l.Name, expand(l.Value))
}
lb.Set(labels.AlertName, r.Name())
annotations := make(labels.Labels, 0, len(r.annotations))
for _, a := range r.annotations {
annotations = append(annotations, labels.Label{Name: a.Name, Value: expand(a.Value)})
}
h := smpl.Metric.Hash()
resultFPs[h] = struct{}{}
// Check whether we already have alerting state for the identifying label set.
// Update the last value and annotations if so, create a new alert entry otherwise.
if alert, ok := r.active[h]; ok && alert.State != StateInactive {
alert.Value = smpl.V
alert.Annotations = annotations
continue
}
r.active[h] = &Alert{
Labels: lb.Labels(),
Annotations: annotations,
ActiveAt: ts,
State: StatePending,
Value: smpl.V,
}
}
var vec promql.Vector
// Check if any pending alerts should be removed or fire now. Write out alert timeseries.
for fp, a := range r.active {
if _, ok := resultFPs[fp]; !ok {
if a.State != StateInactive {
vec = append(vec, r.sample(a, ts, false))
}
// If the alert was previously firing, keep it around for a given
// retention time so it is reported as resolved to the AlertManager.
if a.State == StatePending || (!a.ResolvedAt.IsZero() && ts.Sub(a.ResolvedAt) > resolvedRetention) {
delete(r.active, fp)
}
if a.State != StateInactive {
a.State = StateInactive
a.ResolvedAt = ts
}
continue
}
if a.State == StatePending && ts.Sub(a.ActiveAt) >= r.holdDuration {
vec = append(vec, r.sample(a, ts, false))
a.State = StateFiring
}
vec = append(vec, r.sample(a, ts, true))
}
return vec, nil
}
// State returns the maximum state of alert instances for this rule.
// StateFiring > StatePending > StateInactive
func (r *AlertingRule) State() AlertState {
r.mtx.Lock()
defer r.mtx.Unlock()
maxState := StateInactive
for _, a := range r.active {
if a.State > maxState {
maxState = a.State
}
}
return maxState
}
// ActiveAlerts returns a slice of active alerts.
func (r *AlertingRule) ActiveAlerts() []*Alert {
var res []*Alert
for _, a := range r.currentAlerts() {
if a.ResolvedAt.IsZero() {
res = append(res, a)
}
}
return res
}
// currentAlerts returns all instances of alerts for this rule. This may include
// inactive alerts that were previously firing.
func (r *AlertingRule) currentAlerts() []*Alert {
r.mtx.Lock()
defer r.mtx.Unlock()
alerts := make([]*Alert, 0, len(r.active))
for _, a := range r.active {
anew := *a
alerts = append(alerts, &anew)
}
return alerts
}
func (r *AlertingRule) String() string {
s := fmt.Sprintf("ALERT %s", r.name)
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n\tIF %s", r.vector)
if r.holdDuration > 0 {
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n\tFOR %s", model.Duration(r.holdDuration))
}
if len(r.labels) > 0 {
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n\tLABELS %s", r.labels)
}
if len(r.annotations) > 0 {
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n\tANNOTATIONS %s", r.annotations)
}
return s
}
// HTMLSnippet returns an HTML snippet representing this alerting rule. The
// resulting snippet is expected to be presented in a <pre> element, so that
// line breaks and other returned whitespace is respected.
func (r *AlertingRule) HTMLSnippet(pathPrefix string) html_template.HTML {
alertMetric := model.Metric{
model.MetricNameLabel: alertMetricName,
alertNameLabel: model.LabelValue(r.name),
}
s := fmt.Sprintf("ALERT <a href=%q>%s</a>", pathPrefix+strutil.GraphLinkForExpression(alertMetric.String()), r.name)
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n IF <a href=%q>%s</a>", pathPrefix+strutil.GraphLinkForExpression(r.vector.String()), html_template.HTMLEscapeString(r.vector.String()))
if r.holdDuration > 0 {
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n FOR %s", model.Duration(r.holdDuration))
}
if len(r.labels) > 0 {
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n LABELS %s", html_template.HTMLEscapeString(r.labels.String()))
}
if len(r.annotations) > 0 {
s += fmt.Sprintf("\n ANNOTATIONS %s", html_template.HTMLEscapeString(r.annotations.String()))
}
return html_template.HTML(s)
}