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In this we will learn and understand about Monitoring Alerting solution.

However, alerting gives timely awareness to problems in your cloud applications so you can resolve the problems quickly. Each alerting policy specifies the following:

  • Firstly, conditions that identify when a resource or a group of resources is in a state that requires you to take action. The conditions for an alerting policy are continuously monitored. You cannot configure the conditions to be monitored only for certain time periods.
  • Secondly, Notifications are sent to let your support team know when the conditions have been met. The existing notification channels include all of the following:
    • Email
    • Cloud Mobile App
    • PagerDuty
    • SMS
    • Slack
    • Webhooks
    • Pub/Sub
  • Lastly, documentation can be included in some types of notifications to help your support team resolve the issue. Configuring documentation is optional.

Authorization

This section describes the roles or permissions needed to create an alerting policy. However, each IAM role has an ID and a name. Role IDs have the form of roles/monitoring.editor and are passed as arguments to the gcloud command-line tool when configuring access control.

Required Cloud Console roles

To create an alerting policy, your IAM role name for the Google Cloud project must be one of the following:

  • Firstly, Monitoring Editor
  • Secondly, Monitoring Admin
  • Lastly, Project Owner
Required API permissions

To use the Cloud Monitoring API to create an alerting policy, your IAM role ID for the Google Cloud project must be one of the following:

  • Firstly, roles/monitoring.alertPolicyEditor: This role ID grants the minimal permissions that are needed to create an alerting policy.
  • Secondly, role/monitoring.editor
  • Thirdly, role/monitoring.admin
  • Lastly, the role/owner
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Determining your role

To determine your role for a project by using the Cloud Console, do the following:

  • Firstly, open the Cloud Console and select the Google Cloud project:
  • Then, to view your role, click IAM & admin. Your role is on the same line as your username.

Alerting behavior

Alerting policies exist in dynamic and complex environments, so using them effectively requires an understanding of some of the variables that can affect their behavior. The metrics and resources monitored by conditions, the duration windows for conditions, and the notification channels can each have an effect.

The alignment period and the duration

The alignment period and the duration window are two fields that you set when specifying a condition for an alerting policy. This section provides a brief illustration of the meaning of these fields.

Alignment period

The alignment period is a look-back interval from a particular point in time. For example, if the alignment period is five minutes, then at 1:00 PM, the alignment period contains the samples received between 12:55 PM and 1:00 PM. At 1:01 PM, the alignment period slides one minute and contains the samples received between 12:56 PM and 1:01 PM.

Further, to illustrate the effect of the alignment period on a condition in an alerting policy. Then, consider a condition that is monitoring a metric with a sampling period of one minute. Assume that the alignment period is set to five minutes and that the aligner is set to sum. Finally, assume that the condition is met when the aligned value of the time series is greater than two for a duration of 3 minutes and that the condition is evaluated every minute.

Duration window

You use the duration, or the duration window, to prevent a condition from being met due to a single measurement. However, if you are using the Google Cloud Console, the For field in the Configuration pane corresponds to the duration window.

Selecting the alignment period and duration window

Alerting policy conditions are evaluated at a fixed frequency. The choices that you make for the alignment period and the duration window don’t impact how often the condition is evaluated.

Notifications per incident

A notification is sent out each time series that causes a condition to be met. Another notification is sent when that time series no longer causes the condition to be met. When the condition is no longer being met, the incident is resolved.

However, if a policy contains multiple conditions, it may send multiple notifications depending on how you set up the policy:

  • Firstly, if a policy triggers only when all conditions are met, then the policy sends a notification only when an incident initially opens.
  • Secondly, if a policy triggers when any condition is met, then the policy sends a notification each time a new combination of conditions is met. For example:
    • ConditionA is met, and an incident opens and a notification is sent
    • The incident is still open when a subsequent measurement meets both ConditionA and ConditionB. In this case, the incident remains open and another notification is sent.

Notification latency

Notification latency is the delay from the time a problem first starts until the time a policy is triggered.

The following events and settings contribute to the overall notification latency:

  • Firstly, Metric collection delay: The time Cloud Monitoring needs to collect metric values.
  • Secondly, Duration window: The window configured for the condition.
  • Lastly, Time for notification to arrive: Notification channels such as email and SMS themselves may experience network or other latencies sometimes approaching minutes.
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Reference: Google Documentation, Doc 2

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