From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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Grafana Alert rules
From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
Grafana Alert rules
- [Instructor] In Grafana, alert condition is a role that instructs the platform to continuously monitor specific data and trigger a notification when the predefined criteria is met. Think of the alert role as the intelligence behind your monitoring, constantly watching for signals that might indicate a problem requiring attention. To use Grafana alert roles effectively, it's important to understand the key components. The metric query sells as the instruction to Grafana. It specifies which data to retrieve and monitor for the alert. The importance of accuracy here cannot be understated. A threshold is a critical trigger point of an alert condition. It represents a specific value or set of conditions that will cause the alert to fire. Think of the threshold as a defined boundary. Crossing this boundary signals a potential problem, requiring attention. Folders, like organizational containers within Grafana, they let you group related alert rules or dashboards together. This is…
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