promscale

Overview

Jsonnet source code is available at github.com/timescale/promscale

Alerts

Complete list of pregenerated alerts is available here.

promscale-general

PromscaleDown

alert: PromscaleDown
annotations:
  description: '{{ $labels.instance }} of job {{ $labels.job }} is down.'
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleDown.md
  summary: Promscale is down.
expr: absent(up{job=~".*promscale.*"})
labels:
  severity: critical

promscale-ingest

PromscaleIngestHighErrorRate

alert: PromscaleIngestHighErrorRate
annotations:
  description: Promscale ingestion is having a {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} error
    rate.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleIngestHighErrorRate.md
  summary: High error rate in Promscale ingestion.
expr: |
  (
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_ingest_requests_total{code=~"5.."}[5m])
    )
  /
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_ingest_requests_total[5m])
    )
  ) > 0.05
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleIngestHighErrorRate

alert: PromscaleIngestHighErrorRate
annotations:
  description: Promscale ingestion is having a {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} error
    rate.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleIngestHighErrorRate.md
  summary: High error rate in Promscale ingestion.
expr: |
  (
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_ingest_requests_total{code=~"5.."}[5m])
    )
  /
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_ingest_requests_total[5m])
    )
  ) > 0.1
labels:
  severity: critical

PromscaleIngestHighLatency

alert: PromscaleIngestHighLatency
annotations:
  description: Slowest 10% of ingestion batch took more than {{ $value | humanizeDuration
    }} seconds to ingest.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleIngestHighLatency.md
  summary: Slow Promscale ingestion.
expr: |
  (
    histogram_quantile(
      0.90,
      sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, le) (
        rate(promscale_ingest_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
      )
    ) > 10
  and
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
        rate(promscale_ingest_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
    )
  ) > 0
for: 5m
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleIngestHighLatency

alert: PromscaleIngestHighLatency
annotations:
  description: Slowest 10% of ingestion batch took more than {{ $value | humanizeDuration
    }} seconds to ingest.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleIngestHighLatency.md
  summary: Slow Promscale ingestion.
expr: |
  (
    histogram_quantile(
      0.90,
      sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, le) (
        rate(promscale_ingest_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
      )
    ) > 30
  and
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
        rate(promscale_ingest_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
    )
  ) > 0
for: 5m
labels:
  severity: critical

PromscaleIngestHighDataDuplication

alert: PromscaleIngestHighDataDuplication
annotations:
  description: More than {{ $value | humanize }} samples/sec are rejected as duplicates
    by promscale.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleIngestHighDataDuplication.md
  summary: Duplicate data being inserted.
expr: |
  sum by (job, namespace) (rate(promscale_ingest_duplicates_total{kind="sample"}[15m])) > 0
for: 30m
labels:
  severity: warning

promscale-query

PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate

alert: PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate
annotations:
  description: Evaluating queries via Promscale {{ $labels.handler }} endpoint has
    {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} error rate.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate.md
  summary: High error rate in querying Promscale.
expr: |
  (
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, handler) (
      rate(promscale_query_requests_total{code=~"5..",handler!="/api/v1/query_range",err!="canceled"}[5m])
    )
  /
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, handler) (
      rate(promscale_query_requests_total{handler!="/api/v1/query_range",err!="canceled"}[5m])
    )
  ) > 0.05
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate

alert: PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate
annotations:
  description: Evaluating queries via Promscale {{ $labels.handler }} endpoint has
    {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} error rate.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate.md
  summary: High error rate in querying Promscale.
expr: |
  (
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, handler) (
      rate(promscale_query_requests_total{code=~"5..",handler="/api/v1/query_range",err!="canceled"}[5m])
    )
  /
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, handler) (
      rate(promscale_query_requests_total{handler="/api/v1/query_range",err!="canceled"}[5m])
    )
  ) > 0.1
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate

alert: PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate
annotations:
  description: Evaluating queries via Promscale had {{ $value | humanizePercentage
    }} error rate.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleQueryHighErrorRate.md
  summary: High error rate in querying Promscale.
expr: |
  (
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_query_requests_total{code=~"5..",err!="canceled"}[5m])
    )
  /
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_query_requests_total[5m])
    )
  ) > 0.1
labels:
  severity: critical

PromscaleQueryHighLatency

alert: PromscaleQueryHighLatency
annotations:
  description: Slowest 10% of the queries took more than {{ $value | humanizeDuration
    }} seconds to evaluate.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleQueryHighLatency.md
  summary: Slow Promscale querying.
expr: |
  (
    histogram_quantile(
      0.90,
      sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, le) (
        rate(promscale_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
      )
    ) > 5
  and
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
    ) > 0
  )
for: 5m
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleQueryHighLatency

alert: PromscaleQueryHighLatency
annotations:
  description: Slowest 10% of the queries took {{ $value | humanizeDuration }} seconds
    to evaluate.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleQueryHighLatency.md
  summary: Slow Promscale querying.
expr: |
  (
    histogram_quantile(
      0.90,
      sum by (job, instance, namespace, type, le) (
        rate(promscale_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
      )
    ) > 10
  and
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, type) (
      rate(promscale_query_duration_seconds_bucket[5m])
    ) > 0
  )
for: 5m
labels:
  severity: critical

promscale-cache

PromscaleCacheHighNumberOfEvictions

alert: PromscaleCacheHighNumberOfEvictions
annotations:
  description: Promscale {{ $labels.name }} is evicting at {{ $value }} entries a
    second.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleCacheHighNumberOfEvictions.md
  summary: High cache eviction in Promscale.
expr: |
  (
    rate(promscale_cache_evictions_total[5m])
    /
    promscale_cache_capacity_elements
  ) > 0.2
labels:
  severity: warning

promscale-database-connection

PromscaleStorageHighErrorRate

alert: PromscaleStorageHighErrorRate
annotations:
  description: Promscale connection with the database has an error rate of {{ $value
    | humanizePercentage }}.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleDBHighErrorRate.md
  summary: Promscale experiences a high error rate when connecting to the database.
expr: |
  (
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, method) (
      rate(promscale_database_request_errors_total[5m])
    )
  /
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, method) (
      rate(promscale_database_requests_total[5m])
    )
  ) > 0.05
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleStorageHighLatency

alert: PromscaleStorageHighLatency
annotations:
  description: Slowest 10% of database requests with method {{ $labels.method }} are
    taking more than {{ $value | humanizeDuration }} seconds to respond.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleStorageHighLatency.md
  summary: Slow database response.
expr: |
  (
    histogram_quantile(0.9,
      sum by (job, instance, namespace, method, le) (
        rate(promscale_database_requests_duration_seconds_bucket{method!="exec"}[5m])
      )
    ) > 5
  and
    sum by (job, instance, namespace, method) (
      rate(promscale_database_requests_duration_seconds_count{method!="exec"}[5m])
    ) > 0
  )
labels:
  severity: warning

promscale-database

PromscaleStorageUnhealthy

alert: PromscaleStorageUnhealthy
annotations:
  description: Promscale connection with the database has an error of {{ $value |
    humanizePercentage }}.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleStorageUnhealthy.md
  summary: Promscale database is unhealthy.
expr: |
  (
    sum by (job, instance, namespace) (
      rate(promscale_sql_database_health_check_errors_total[5m])
    )
  /
    sum by (job, instance, namespace) (
      rate(promscale_sql_database_health_check_total[5m])
    )
  ) > 0.05
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleMaintenanceJobRunningTooLong

alert: PromscaleMaintenanceJobRunningTooLong
annotations:
  description: Promscale Database is taking {{ $value | humanizeDuration }} seconds
    to respond to Promscale's requests.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleMaintenanceJobRunningTooLong.md
  summary: Promscale maintenance jobs taking too long to complete.
expr: |
  (
    (
      (
        time()
      -
        promscale_sql_database_worker_maintenance_job_start_timestamp_seconds
      )
        >
          30 * 60 * 2 # 30 mins (we launch maintenance jobs scheduled at 30 mins) * 60 (to seconds) * 2 (wait max for 2 complete scans before firing alert).
    )
  and
    promscale_sql_database_worker_maintenance_job_start_timestamp_seconds > 0
  )
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleMaintenanceJobNotKeepingup

alert: PromscaleMaintenanceJobNotKeepingup
annotations:
  description: The amount of work for the promscale maintenance {{ $labels.name }}
    job is not decreasing for long time.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleMaintenanceJobRunningTooLong.md
  summary: Promscale maintenance jobs are not keeping up.
expr: |
  (
      (
        min_over_time(promscale_sql_database_chunks_metrics_uncompressed_count[1h]) > promscale_sql_database_metric_count
      )
    and
      (
        delta(promscale_sql_database_chunks_metrics_uncompressed_count[10m]) > 0
      )
  )
  or
  (
      (
        min_over_time(promscale_sql_database_chunks_metrics_expired_count[1h]) > promscale_sql_database_metric_count
      )
    and
      (
        delta(promscale_sql_database_chunks_metrics_expired_count[10m]) > 0
      )
  )
  or
  (
      (
        min_over_time(promscale_sql_database_chunks_traces_uncompressed_count[1h]) > promscale_sql_database_metric_count
      )
    and
      (
        delta(promscale_sql_database_chunks_traces_uncompressed_count[10m]) > 0
      )
  )
  or
  (
      (
        min_over_time(promscale_sql_database_chunks_traces_expired_count[1h]) > promscale_sql_database_metric_count
      )
    and
      (
        delta(promscale_sql_database_chunks_traces_expired_count[10m]) > 0
      )
  )
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleMaintenanceJobFailures

alert: PromscaleMaintenanceJobFailures
annotations:
  description: Maintenance job for Promscale instance {{ $labels.instance }} failed
    to successfully execute.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleMaintenanceJobFailures.md
  summary: Promscale maintenance job failed.
expr: promscale_sql_database_worker_maintenance_job_failed == 1
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscaleCompressionLow

alert: PromscaleCompressionLow
annotations:
  description: High uncompressed data in Promscale, on average, {{ $value }} uncompressed
    chunks per metric.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscaleCompressionLow.md
  summary: High uncompressed data.
expr: |
  (
    (
      (promscale_sql_database_chunks_count - promscale_sql_database_chunks_compressed_count) # Number of uncompressed chunks.
    /
      promscale_sql_database_metric_count
    ) > 4 # If total number of average uncompressed chunk per metric is more than 4 chunks at maximum, we should alert.
  and
    promscale_sql_database_compression_status == 1
  )
labels:
  severity: warning

PromscalePostgreSQLSharedBuffersLow

alert: PromscalePostgreSQLSharedBuffersLow
annotations:
  description: Currently open chunks are {{ $value | humanizePercentage }} of PostgreSQL
    shared_buffers. This will impact database performance.
  runbook_url: https://github.com/timescale/promscale/blob/master/docs/runbooks/PromscalePostgreSQLSharedBuffersLow.md
  summary: Promscale database performance will be affected.
expr: |
  (
    ((promscale_sql_database_open_chunks_total_table_size + promscale_sql_database_open_chunks_total_index_size)
    /
    promscale_sql_database_shared_buffers_size)
    > 1 )
for: 10m
labels:
  severity: warning

Dashboards

Following dashboards are generated from mixins and hosted on github: