See now that is something that one would fail to mentions because when working with Nagios/Icinga all day it's essential. In German we call it "betriebsblind".
I'll update some READMEs to make things clearer. Thanks On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 4:04:41 PM UTC+2 Conall O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 14:04, Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks. >> >> It wasn't clear to me how the -c (critical) and -w (warning) thresholds >> work. I had to dig through source and I found my way to a dependency: >> https://github.com/NETWAYS/go-check#thresholds >> >> There, the README shows an example "~:3" but not what it actually means. >> In the source >> <https://github.com/NETWAYS/go-check/blob/v0.5.0/threshold.go#L11-L22> >> (which presumably ends up in godoc) I found: >> > > It's been a long time since I used nagios, but nagios warning vs critical > thresholds are akin to using a Prometheus metric in multiple alerts, with > different alerting thresholds and severity labels for each alert definition. > > >> // Defining a threshold for any numeric value >> // >> // Format: [@]start:end >> // >> // Threshold Generate an alert if x... >> // 10 < 0 or > 10, (outside the range of {0 .. 10}) >> // 10: < 10, (outside {10 .. ∞}) >> // ~:10 > 10, (outside the range of {-∞ .. 10}) >> // 10:20 < 10 or > 20, (outside the range of {10 .. 20}) >> // @10:20 ≥ 10 and ≤ 20, (inside the range of {10 .. 20}) >> // >> // Reference: >> https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT >> >> So my main feedback is, a direct documentation link from check_prometheus >> to THRESHOLDFORMAT would be very helpful :-) >> >> (I guess this is standard for nagios though. I know check_snmp works in >> this way) >> >> On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 09:40:49 UTC+1 martialblog wrote: >> >>> From what I can tell nagitheus as well as >>> https://github.com/prometheus/nagios_plugins can only be used for >>> PromQL checks. >>> >>> We wanted to have a tool that's also able to do other things, like a >>> simple heath check or alerts. >>> >>> I also hope that the we can extend the CLI in the future if other >>> features are required, thus the subcommand pattern. >>> >>> On Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 9:43:13 AM UTC+2 Brian Candler wrote: >>> >>>> Cool. How does this compare with https://github.com/claranet/nagitheus >>>> ? >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 07:51:35 UTC+1 martialblog wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I just wanted to spread the word that me and my colleagues release a >>>>> little tool that helps to integrate Prometheus into monitoring tools like >>>>> Nagios/Icinga. >>>>> >>>>> It's a Nagios-style monitoring plugin that talk with the Prometheus >>>>> API and transforms the response into the OK,WARNING,CRITICAL semantic. >>>>> All >>>>> packed into a Golang Binary, released under GPL-2.0 license. >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/NETWAYS/check_prometheus >>>>> >>>>> Current features are: >>>>> >>>>> - health, Checks the health or readiness status of the Prometheus >>>>> server >>>>> - alert, Checks the status of one or more Prometheus alerts >>>>> - query, Checks the status of a PromQL query >>>>> >>>>> Feedback is most welcome! >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> Markus >>>>> >>>> -- >> 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/ee5d6a30-8b5b-4cb1-bc36-1aa9768776e1n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/ee5d6a30-8b5b-4cb1-bc36-1aa9768776e1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > Conall O'Brien > -- 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/6c3925de-8d96-4a32-b229-a36c7c205117n%40googlegroups.com.
