2015 12 02 better kadira alerting with slack integration - giordanocardillo/kadira-server GitHub Wiki

We’ve had an alerting system since the very early days of Kadira, but it did not work properly and triggered false positive alerts. This was due to the poor design and the lack of schema for our inter-service communication.

We've re-written our alerting system based on our new GraphQL data layer, and now it can handle alerts more accurately. It also comes with a few useful features, which I’ll introduce here.

Now you can forward alerts notifications to Slack. Since Slack is often used for company-wide communication, we hope this will be a killer feature. Once configured, you can get alerts like this:

Integrating with Slack is pretty simple. Just generate an incoming Webhook and use it as a Webhook when creating a Kadira Alert. Follow this guide for more information.

Now our alerting system knows about the context and can give you useful information. Here's how it works:

• When the alert is triggered, we'll fire notifications.
• A notification contains a human-friendly message with information related to the incident. For an example, take a look at the following message:

• It also contains a link to the Kadira dashboard (based on the rule you defined), where you can get more details about the incident.
• Once you fix the incident, we'll fire notifications again as the alert has cleared.

We've recently introduced more features to Kadira, like "Live Query" monitoring support. Now you can create alerts for all these new metrics.

Now you can see a small notification in the Alerts window if an alert is fired.

With this, you can know about armed alerts in your app at a glance.

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This is the best part. All these features are available for every app in Kadira. If your app is a FREE app, you can create up to five alerts. Otherwise, you can create as many as alerts you like.

Try the new Kadira alerts and be notified when something crucial has happened.