README.md

DIY alerts observability

This demo uses vector.dev to collect data from different sources and write the data in the datastore we use one http_server vector instance - to receive Alertmanager webhook notifications, two http_client sources to query Alertmanager's alerts and silence API endpoints and two sinks for writing all the state logs in ClickHouse into alerts and silences tables.

The docker-compose will bring up several containers:

• Cadvisor is used to generate system metrics for monitoring.
• Prometheus is used to monitor and generate alerts.
• Alertmanager is to route alerts and provide the alert events via webhook and API.
• alertmanager_silence is to create an Alertmanager silence.
• blackbox_exporter is for monitoring the sites and generating alerts.
• ClickHouse is used to write the Alertmanager alert events into the datastore for alerts observability.
• Vector.dev - to collect data from Alertmanager webhook, alerts and silences API, transform the data and write into ClickHouse.
• Grafana is used to visualize the logs.

Pre-requisite:

docker

Getting started:

• Setup password for ClickHouse and bring up the containers using docker compose

foo@bar:~$ export CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD="<PASSWORD here>"
foo@bar:~$ docker compose up

Please wait for about 5 minutes for the alerts to be triggered and visit http://localhost:3000/ to explore the Alerts and silences overview dashboard and play around.