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Create an Alert for Milvus Services

This topic introduces the alert mechanism for Milvus services and explains why, when, and how to create alerts in Milvus.

By creating alerts, you can receive notifications when the value of a specific metric exceeds the threshold you have predefined.

For example, you create an alert and set 80 MB as the maximum value for memory usage by Milvus components. If the actual usage exceeds the predefined number, you will receive alerts reminding you that the memory usage by Milvus component surpasses 80 MB. Upon the alert, you can then adjust the allocation of resources accordingly and timely to ensure service availability.

Scenarios for creating alerts

Below are some common scenarios where you need to create an alert for.

  • CPU or memory usage by Milvus components is too high.
  • Milvus component pods are running low on disk space.
  • Milvus component pods are restarting too frequently.

The following metrics are available for alerting configuration:

MetricDescriptionUnit of measure
CPU UsageCPU usage by Milvus components that is indicated by the running time of CPU.Second
MemoryMemory resources consumed by Milvus components.MB
GoroutinesConcurrent executing activities in GO language./
OS ThreadsThreads, or lightweight processes in an operating system./
Process Opened FdsThe current number of used file descriptors./

Set up alerts

This guide takes the example of creating an alert for the memory usage of Milvus components. To create other types of alerts, please adjust your commands accordingly. If you encounter any problems during the process, feel free to ask in the Milvus forum or initiate a discussion on Slack.

Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes that you have Grafana installed and configured. If not, we recommend reading the monitoring guide.

1. Add a new query

To add an alert for the memory usage of Milvus components, edit the Memory panel. Then, add a new query with the metric: process_resident_memory_bytes{app_kubernetes_io_name="milvus", app_kubernetes_io_instance=~"my-release", namespace="default"}

Alert_metric Alert_metric

2. Save the dashboard

Save the dashboard, and wait for a few minutes to see the alert.

Alert_dashboard Alert_dashboard

Grafana alert query does not support template variables. Therefore, you should add a second query without any template variables in the labels. The second query is named as “A” by default. You can rename it by clicking on the dropdown.

Alert_query Alert_query

3. Add alert notifications

To receive alert notifications, add a "notification channel". Then, specify the channel in the field "Send to".

Alert_notification Alert_notification

If the alert is successfully created and triggered, you will receive the notification as shown in the screenshot below.

Notification_message Notification_message

To delete an alert, go to the “Alert” panel and click the delete button.

Delete_alert Delete_alert

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