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Alerting in grafana
Dieter Plaetinck
Grafanacon 2015 NYC
Dieter Who?
• Graph-Explorer, metrics 2.0
• graphite-ng, carbon-relay-ng
• anthracite
• graphite-influxdb, influx-cli, whisper-to-influxdb
• Bosun ~ graphite
• http://dieter.plaetinck.be/tags/monitoring/
quixotic
quix·ot·ic
/kwikˈsädik/
adj
Idealistic without regard to practicality.
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Anthony • Dieter • Matt • Raj • Torkel
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2209
Idealizeddesign
http://www.ida.liu.se/~steho87/und/htdd01/AckoffGuidetoIdealizedRedesign.pdf
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/idealized-design-how-bell-labs-imagined-and-created-the-telephone-system-of-the-future/
brainstorm
Scope of alerting
Scope of alerting
Scope of alerting
UXdriven
syndrome
second
system
saying no.
Learning
Grafana
from
Prevent people from doing
stupid things
Prevent people from doing
stupid things
Prevent people from doing
smart things
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Focus
power users
on
Finding the balance
on a small budget
really
really
really
HARD
prototype
iterate
evolvable
design
userworkflow
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
mockups!
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Dashboard level
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Global level
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015
Grafana:
data viz
alert config
alert state viz
Grafana:
data viz
alert config
alert state viz

Handler:
alert scheduling
alert execution
notifications
grafana api → handler
bosun.org
nagios.org
sensuapp.org
github.com/arachnys/cabot
github.com/scobal/seyren
...
“batteries
included, but
removeable”
Time to vote
Why alerting
INGrafana
why:
unified workflow
why:
integration
why:
power through UX
•Workflow is key
•Composability & compatibility
•Handler integrations. <3 community.
•Prototype coming in Grafana 2.x
Conclusion
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2209
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