Self Monitoring

Self monitoring allow to trigger an alert when something wrong happened. It can be your Loki instance down, a rule with a bad LogQL, etc

• Example Configuration
• Schema Properties
  • template (See Templates)
  • notifiers
  • errorFilters
  • ruleFilters
  • minimumErrorCount
  • throttle (See Throttle)

Example configuration

{
  "selfMonitoring": {
    "notifiers": ["discord"],
    "template": {
      "title": "Bad Gateway",
      "content": [
        "Loki is down!"
      ]
    },
    "errorFilters": ["Bad Gateway"]
  }
}

Schema Properties

template

See templates

NOTE

template property is required

WARNING

Self-monitoring templates can be a root template reference, however the available variables are differents.

notifiers

Defines the notifiers to send alerts on.

Type	Required	Default
string[]	❌	All root configured notifiers

errorFilters

The errorFilters allow to filter errors.
Each item can be either a strict-equal match value or a RegExp.

Type	Required
string[]	❌

For instance, if you don't want to be notified by malformed LogQL queries (Bad Request errors) then you can filter it:

{
  "errorFilters": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

ruleFilters

The ruleFilters property allow the rules to be filtered by their name. Can be useful for instance if you have a rule with a very high count of logs that may throw a timeout.

Type	Required
string[]	❌

minimumErrorCount

The minimum count of error before triggering an alert.

Type	Required	Default
number	❌	0

throttle

See Throttle