From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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Grafana Alerts states
From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
Grafana Alerts states
- [Instructor] Grafana Alerts operates with a set of distinct states, each providing a snapshot of the health of the monitored condition. To make the most out of alerts, you'll need to understand what the states are. There are five distinct states for a Grafana alert: Okay, pending, firing, no data, and error. Okay is a state that signifies that the alert condition has not been met. Everything is working as normal. With Pending, when your monitored condition breaches the threshold, the alert initially enters the pending state. It then remains in this state for a configured duration known as the pending period. Think of this period as a buffer that prevents immediate notifications for transient issues. With the Alerting or Firing stage, if the monitored condition remains above the threshold for longer than the pending period, the alert transitions to the alerting or firing states. This is a state where notifications are typically sent. The Alerting state is the core purpose of alerting…
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