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2 years ago

Create method to have "cluster alerting groups" where we can alert if any/all instances cross a threshold

Hello, I would like to put in a feature request to have a method of grouping Datasource instances so that we can trigger an alert if any or all of the instances cross a certain threshold. 

For example, with the Zerto VPG datasource we could group VPG instances by customer if using a multi-tenant ZVM setup. Say there are 15 VPG instances in example group A. If we set a threshold on a datapoint for this "cluster alerting group" then it would be nice to be able to get an alert if 1 single VPG crosses the threshold, or get an alert if all 15 instances cross the threshold. Rather than getting 15 alerts for what is likely the same condition.

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  • 3 hours ago, Matt Whitney said:

    Hello, I would like to put in a feature request to have a method of grouping Datasource instances so that we can trigger an alert if any or all of the instances cross a certain threshold. 

    For example, with the Zerto VPG datasource we could group VPG instances by customer if using a multi-tenant ZVM setup. Say there are 15 VPG instances in example group A. If we set a threshold on a datapoint for this "cluster alerting group" then it would be nice to be able to get an alert if 1 single VPG crosses the threshold, or get an alert if all 15 instances cross the threshold. Rather than getting 15 alerts for what is likely the same condition.

    It sounds like you are talking about Cluster Alerts (https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/alerts/about-alerts/cluster-alerts).  They work pretty well for this situation.  The place they don't work is in shared resource clusters where you want to check if specific instances are failed on all resources (e.g., a wifi AP down on all controllers in a group).  For those situations, we have to hack around it with custom modules each time we encounter the problem.