[Hawkular-dev] Tag concept in metrics and alerts

[Lucas Ponce]

Thx Gary,

Comments in-line,

> 
> Hi Lucas
> 
> The context is around the topic of HWKALERTS-49 - being able to replicate the
> RTGov 'situation' functionality using alerts. I think the main part missing
> at the moment is being able to associate the Alert with the business
> transaction information that caused it.
> 
> I believe there are two scenarios that may occur, where business transaction
> data may result in an Alert:
> 
> (1) metrics derived from the business transaction data are applied to the
> alert engine resulting in an alert - the persisted Alert will need to
> contain some link back to the business transaction. Metrics has their 'tag'
> name/value pair, which I believe could be used to store this info when the
> metric is created - so just need a way to carry that over into the alert.
> 
> (2) other 'events' - so for example, if we identify some situation of
> interest (a service failure), we create an object representing that
> situation and send it to the alerts engine - again the originating business
> transaction id would need to be carried across via the intermediate 'service
> failure' object.
> 
> Is it possible this could be handled by the work you are doing on HALERT-57?
> 

In HWKALERTS-57 we are improving the Action model to pass the Alert that was linked and also the Alert should have information about the definition who triggered it.

So, having an action, you will have the alert and the definition data.

If the business transaction info is "mapped" into the definition, the action will have it.

These requeriments were addressed by plugins but as we are still working on it, we can join other requeriments in the same context to improve it.

How do you plan to map the BTM info into the definition ? using Tags ?

That can help me to add/modify some aspect of the present work.

Thanks,
Lucas


> Regards
> Gary
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Perhaps a rename to "Label" can be valid.
> > 
> > Gary, is there some place where I can find more details about the context ?
> > 
> > (Just to understand the whole scenario and see if what can be
> > needed/interesting).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Lucas
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Gary Brown" <gbrown at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Discussions around Hawkular development"
> > > <hawkular-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 12:43:56 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Hawkular-dev] Tag concept in metrics and alerts
> > > 
> > > +1
> > > 
> > > I don't mind if we adopt Tag as being name/value pair - but then we
> > > should
> > > use the same approach in Alerts. I actually need the Alert to have
> > > ability
> > > to record name/value pairs so this would suit my need, but they would
> > > then
> > > they would need to change their current Tag to be something else,
> > > possibly
> > > Label?
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > Gary
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > Not using the same terminology as "industry standards" is a problem,
> > > > not
> > > > using the same terminology within Hawkular small world is another...
> > > > Can we solve both ?
> > > > 
> > > > Thomas
> > > > 
> > > > On 06/24/2015 12:25 PM, Michael Burman wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't agree with changing the terms. Many of metrics competing
> > > > > products
> > > > > (such as InfluxDB / OpenTSDB) use the same terminology, so it is
> > > > > easier
> > > > > for customers to understand the differences and similarities between
> > > > > products. Using different terminology was one of the difficulties in
> > > > > RHQ
> > > > > (like noted in the F2F meeting) and I don't think we should repeat
> > > > > the
> > > > > same mistake.
> > > > >
> > > > >    - Micke
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Gary Brown" <gbrown at redhat.com>
> > > > > To: "Discussions around Hawkular development"
> > > > > <hawkular-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:45:56 AM
> > > > > Subject: [Hawkular-dev] Tag concept in metrics and alerts
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > Both metrics and alerts use the term 'tag' - however metrics use a
> > > > > name/value pair for a tag, and alerts uses it as a label. Wondering
> > > > > whether we need consistency?
> > > > >
> > > > > When I hear the term tag, I usually envisage a label - e.g. as in
> > > > > git.
> > > > > So
> > > > > wondering whether it would be clearer for metrics to rename tags to
> > > > > properties?
> > > > >
> > > > > Possibly metrics needs the concept of a tag/label as well?
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards
> > > > > Gary
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