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Write unified tutorial with prometheus #187

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tamalsaha opened this issue Jul 31, 2017 · 0 comments
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Write unified tutorial with prometheus #187

tamalsaha opened this issue Jul 31, 2017 · 0 comments

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tamalsaha commented Jul 31, 2017

https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/alerting/#metamonitoring

Metamonitoring

It is important to have confidence that monitoring is working. Accordingly, have alerts to ensure that Prometheus servers, Alertmanagers, PushGateways, and other monitoring infrastructure are available and running correctly.

As always, if it is possible to alert on symptoms rather than causes, this helps to reduce noise. For example, a blackbox test that alerts are getting from PushGateway to Prometheus to Alertmanager to email is better than individual alerts on each.

Supplementing the whitebox monitoring of Prometheus with external blackbox monitoring can catch problems that are otherwise invisible, and also serves as a fallback in case internal systems completely fail.
@tamalsaha tamalsaha added this to the 3.0.0 milestone Jul 31, 2017
@tamalsaha tamalsaha changed the title Write unified tutorial Write unified tutorial with prometheus Jul 31, 2017
@tamalsaha tamalsaha removed this from the 3.0.0 milestone Mar 12, 2018
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