Chapter 13. Getting information about alerts, silences, and alerting rules from the Administrator perspective

The Alerting UI provides detailed information about alerts and their governing alerting rules and silences.

Prerequisites

You have access to the cluster as a user with view permissions for the project that you are viewing alerts for.

Procedure

To obtain information about alerts:

From the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Dedicated web console, go to the Observe Alerting Alerts page.
Optional: Search for alerts by name by using the Name field in the search list.
Optional: Filter alerts by state, severity, and source by selecting filters in the Filter list.
Optional: Sort the alerts by clicking one or more of the Name, Severity, State, and Source column headers.
Click the name of an alert to view its Alert details page. The page includes a graph that illustrates alert time series data. It also provides the following information about the alert:
- A description of the alert
- Messages associated with the alert
- Labels attached to the alert
- A link to its governing alerting rule
- Silences for the alert, if any exist

To obtain information about silences:

From the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Dedicated web console, go to the Observe Alerting Silences page.
Optional: Filter the silences by name using the Search by name field.
Optional: Filter silences by state by selecting filters in the Filter list. By default, Active and Pending filters are applied.
Optional: Sort the silences by clicking one or more of the Name, Firing alerts, State, and Creator column headers.
Select the name of a silence to view its Silence details page. The page includes the following details:
- Alert specification
- Start time
- End time
- Silence state
- Number and list of firing alerts

To obtain information about alerting rules:

From the Administrator perspective of the OpenShift Dedicated web console, go to the Observe Alerting Alerting rules page.
Optional: Filter alerting rules by state, severity, and source by selecting filters in the Filter list.
Optional: Sort the alerting rules by clicking one or more of the Name, Severity, Alert state, and Source column headers.
Select the name of an alerting rule to view its Alerting rule details page. The page provides the following details about the alerting rule:
- Alerting rule name, severity, and description.
- The expression that defines the condition for firing the alert.
- The time for which the condition should be true for an alert to fire.
- A graph for each alert governed by the alerting rule, showing the value with which the alert is firing.
- A table of all alerts governed by the alerting rule.