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 time frames, 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.