About Percona Alerting¶
Important
Percona Alerting is the new Alerting feature introduced in PMM 2.31. This replaces the Integrated Alerting feature available in previous versions.
Alerting notifies of important or unusual activity in your database environments so that you can identify and resolve problems quickly. When something needs your attention, Percona Alerting can be configured to automatically send you a notification through your specified contact points.
PMM 2.31 introduced Percona Alerting which replaces Integrated Alerting in previous PMM versions. In addition to full feature parity, Percona Alerting includes additional benefits like Grafana-based alert rules and a unified, easy-to-use alerting command center on the Alerting page.
Percona Alerting is enabled by default in the PMM Settings. This feature adds the Alert rule templates option on the main menu and alert template options on the Alerting page.
These options enable you to create alerts based on a set of Percona-supplied templates with common events and expressions for alerting.
Alert types¶
Percona Alerting is powered by Grafana infrastructure. It leverages Grafana’s advanced alerting capabilities and provides pre-configured Alert Rule Templates that simplify creating powerful alerting rules.
Depending on the datasources that you want to query, and the complexity of your required evaluation criteria, Percona Alerting enables you to create the following types of alerts:
- Percona templated alerts: alerts based on a set of Percona-supplied templates with common events and expressions for alerting. If you need custom expressions on which to base your alert rules, you can also create your own templates.
- Grafana managed alerts: alerts that handle complex conditions and can span multiple different data sources like SQL, Prometheus, InfluxDB, etc. These alerts are stored and executed by Grafana.
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