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What have other people had success with?
Grafana really looks interesting, and it is interesting that you can add all the different backends to it, for an example I didn't know you can use Elasticsearch as a timeseries backend. Is it correct that Grafana works best with Graphite? At least that seems to be my impression, and it is a bit sad, since I think Graphite is cool, but it really has a lot of moving parts.
This release has been long in the making. We started on Alerting way back in March this year and it's finally released! Read more about all the highlights in the release here: http://grafana.org/blog/2016/11/09/grafana-4.0-beta-release/ Oh, and if your in New York tomorrow, signup for GrafanaCon: http://grafanacon.org
With alerting in place now, I'm even happier than ever. A huge thank you to the Grafana team for solving a huge pain point!
This release has been long in the making. We started on Alerting way back in March this year and it's finally released! Read more about all the highlights in the release here: http://grafana.org/blog/2016/11/09/grafana-4.0-beta-release/ Oh, and if your in New York tomorrow, signup for GrafanaCon: http://grafanacon.org
Congrats on release! We've been using Grafana for a few years now, and personally built-in alerting is the only thing I would have added. Some may argue that this "violates" good concern separation practices, but honestly you are going to be alerting about the same data you feed to Grafana, so at the end of the day it makes a lot of sense. Call it a "two in one" if you will. Either way this will make monitoring with…
We struggled a bit with whether or not it really "belonged" in Grafana, but we believe in alerting while "in the flow".
It makes a lot of sense (from an experience standpoint) to 'manage' alerting while you're 'managing' your dashboards, visualizations, and queries; you already have a sense of the data _right there_.
Grafana really looks interesting, and it is interesting that you can add all the different backends to it, for an example I didn't know you can use Elasticsearch as a timeseries backend. Is it correct that Grafana works best with Graphite? At least that seems to be my impression, and it is a bit sad, since I think Graphite is cool, but it really has a lot of moving parts.
True story: Our monitoring stack now has three distinct components with alerting functionality.
I'm currently using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager. I'm a big fan of the linux terminal, versioned config files, and separation of concerns but the rest of my team prefers web interfaces so I'm basically the only one maintaining Alertmanager. Grafana Altering looks appealing. What have other people had success with?
I think Grafana will fill the basic GUI alerting needs, though. When you need more than a simple flat treshold you usually want to get out of the GUI and ask the ops team for help anyway.