Hey. I wondered whether the following is possible with Prometheus. I basically think about possibly phasing out Icinga and do any alerting in Prometheus.
For checks that are clearly metrics based (like load or free disk space) this seems rather easy. But what about any checks that are not really based on metrics? Like e.g. check_raid, which gives an error if any RAID has lost a disk or similar. Of course one could always just try to make a metric out of it - above one could make e.g. the number of non-consistent RAIDs the metric. But what one actually wants from such checks is additional (typically purely textual) information, like in the above example which HDD (enclosure, bay number,... or the serial number) has failed. Also I have numerous other checks which test for things which are not really related to a number but where the output are strings. Is there any (good) way to get that done with Prometheus, or is it simply not meant for that specific use case. Thanks, Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/8fe84502-eca5-4e53-8a9c-35e7a9dd6113n%40googlegroups.com.
