Alert Types

Sysdig Monitor can generate notifications based on certain conditions or events you configure. Using the alert feature, you can keep a tab on your infrastructure and find out about problems as they happen, or even before they happen with the alert conditions you define. In Sysdig Monitor, metrics serve as the central configuration artifact for alerts. A metric ties one or more conditions or events to the measures to take when the condition is met, or an event happens. Alerts work across Sysdig modules including Explore, Dashboard, Events, and Overview.

The types of alerts available in Sysdig Monitor:

  • Threshold Alerts: Monitor your infrastructure by comparing any metric against user-defined thresholds

  • Prometheus Alerts: Monitor your infrastructure with PromQL queries, maintaining full compatibility with OSS Prometheus.

  • Event Alerts: Monitor your infrastructure by tracking specific events, and alert if the total number of occurrences exceeds a user-defined threshold

  • Group Outlier Alerts: Monitor unusual patterns by detecting deviations from expected group behavior.

  • Percentage of Change Alerts: Compare the percentage of change of a metric over two specific timeframes, such as comparing the last 5 minutes to the previous hour.

  • Downtime Alerts: Monitor any type of entity - host, container, process, service, etc - and alert when the entity goes down.

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Prometheus Alerts

Monitor your infrastructure with PromQL queries, maintaining full compatibility with OSS Prometheus.

Threshold Alerts

Monitor your infrastructure by comparing any metric against user-defined thresholds.

Event Alerts

Monitor occurrences of specific events, and alert if the total number of occurrences violates a threshold. Useful for alerting on container, orchestration, and service events like restarts and deployments.

Group Outlier Alerts

The Group Outlier Alert Type monitors specific segments in a metric to identify entities that deviate from the group. This alert type is useful for detecting variations in resource utilization, latency rates, and error rates.

Percentage of Change Alerts

Percentage of Change Alerts trigger when a metric value substantially deviates compared to historical values.

Downtime Alert

Sysdig Monitor continuously surveils different types of entities in your infrastructure, such as a host, a container, a process, and sends notifications when the monitored entity is not available or responding. Downtime alert focuses mainly on unscheduled downtime of programs, containers, and hosts in your infrastructure.

Advanced Metric Alerts

Advanced metric alerts (Multi-condition alerts) are advanced alert threshold created on complex conditions. They are created by defining alert thresholds as custom boolean expressions that can involve multiple conditions.