Alerts and Notifications

Overview

Alerting and Notifications are features of SkySQL Monitoring.

SkySQL Monitoring sends notifications to customer-defined notification channels based on customer-defined alerting rules.

Compatibility

  • Distributed Transactions

  • Multi-Node Analytics

  • Replicated Transactions

  • Single Node Analytics

  • Single Node Transactions

Access Alerts and Notifications

To access the Alerts and Notifications page:

  1. Access SkySQL Monitoring

  2. Click on the "Alerts" link in the left navigation menu

Active and History

By default, the Alerts and Notifications page provides access to two tabs:

  • Active: Current alerts

  • History: Past alerts

Rules

Alerting rules define the events that should generate alerts. Rules are defined by specifying a metric, a threshold for the metric's value, and a time interval for the length of the event. Rules are tagged to link rules with notifications.

To access alerting rules from the Alerts and Notifications page:

  1. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner to open the Settings page

  2. On the Settings page, the Rules tab is selected by default

Add a Rule

To add an alerting rule from the Rules tab of the Settings page:

  1. Click the "Add" button in the upper right corner to open a popup window

  2. In the popup window, define the new alerting rule

  3. When complete, click the "Save" button in the lower right corner

Edit a Rule

To edit an alerting rule from the Rules tab of the Settings page:

  1. In the list of rules, click the rule name to open a popup window

  2. In the popup window, edit the alerting rule

  3. When complete, click the "Save" button in the lower right corner

Delete a Rule

To delete an alerting rule from the Rules tab of the Settings page:

  1. In the list of rules, click the checkbox to the left of the rule name

  2. Click the "Delete" button in the upper right corner

Notifications

Notifications define a relationship between alerting rules and notification channels. Notifications are linked to alerting rules using tags. A single notification can be linked to many alerting rules.

To access notifications from the Alerts and Notifications page:

  1. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner to open the Settings page

  2. On the Settings page, click the "Notifications" tab

Notification Channels

Notification channels define the recipients of notifications. Currently, only email addresses are supported.

To access notification channels from the Alerts and Notifications page:

  1. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner to open the Settings page

  2. On the Settings page, click the "Channels" tab