Alerting in Grafana, Grafanacon 2015

1. Alerting in grafana Dieter Plaetinck Grafanacon 2015 NYC

2. 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/

3. quixotic

4. quix·ot·ic /kwikˈsädik/ adj Idealistic without regard to practicality.

5. Anthony • Dieter • Matt • Raj • Torkel https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2209

6. 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/

7. brainstorm

8. Scope of alerting

11. UXdriven

12. syndrome second system

13. saying no.

14. Learning Grafana from

15. Prevent people from doing stupid things

16. Prevent people from doing stupid things Prevent people from doing smart things

17. Focus power users on

18. Finding the balance on a small budget

19. really

20. really

21. really

22. HARD

23. prototype iterate

24. evolvable design

25. userworkflow

26. mockups!

27. Dashboard level

28. Global level

29. Grafana: data viz alert config alert state viz

30. Grafana: data viz alert config alert state viz  Handler: alert scheduling alert execution notifications

31. grafana api → handler bosun.org nagios.org sensuapp.org github.com/arachnys/cabot github.com/scobal/seyren ...

32. “batteries included, but removeable”

33. Time to vote

34. Why alerting INGrafana

35. why: unified workflow

36. why: integration

37. why: power through UX

38. •Workflow is key •Composability & compatibility •Handler integrations. <3 community. •Prototype coming in Grafana 2.x Conclusion

39. https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2209 Q&A