Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Ganesh Viswanathan
Hurely might be able to shed more light on the finer details. > > BR, > Sid > > > -- > *From:* Jonathan Hurley > *Sent:* Friday, October 28, 2016 1:44 PM > *To:* Ganesh Viswanathan > *Cc:* user@ambari.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Am

Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Siddharth Wagle
1:44 PM To: Ganesh Viswanathan Cc: user@ambari.apache.org Subject: Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule In your version of Ambari, the alert will trigger right away. In Ambari 2.4, we have the notion of "soft" and "hard" alerts. You can configure it so

Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Jonathan Hurley
In your version of Ambari, the alert will trigger right away. In Ambari 2.4, we have the notion of "soft" and "hard" alerts. You can configure it so that it doesn't trigger alert notifications until n number of CRITICAL alerts have been received in a row. On Oct 28, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Ganesh Vis

Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Ganesh Viswanathan
> *From:* Ganesh Viswanathan > *Sent:* Friday, October 28, 2016 1:07 PM > *To:* Jonathan Hurley > *Cc:* user@ambari.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL > threshold rule > > Thanks Jonathan, that explains some of

Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Ganesh Viswanathan
Thanks Jonathan, that explains some of the behavior I'm seeing. Two additional questions: 1) How do I make sure the Ambari "Metrics Collector Process" does not alert immediately when the process is down? I am using Ambari 2.2.1.0 and it has a bug [1] which can trigger restarts of the process. The

Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Siddharth Wagle
on AMS. Other alerts either are port/pid or jmx based. - Sid From: Ganesh Viswanathan Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 1:07 PM To: Jonathan Hurley Cc: user@ambari.apache.org Subject: Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule Thanks Jon

Re: Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Jonathan Hurley
It sounds like you're asking two different questions here. Let me see if I can address them: Most "CRITICAL" thresholds do contain different text then their OK/WARNING counterparts. This is because there is different information which needs to be conveyed when an alert has gone CRITICAL. In the

Ambari Metrics Collector Process alert - CRITICAL threshold rule

2016-10-28 Thread Ganesh Viswanathan
Hello, The Ambari "Metrics Collector Process" Alert has a different defintion for CRITICAL threshold vs. OK and WARNING thresholds. What is the reason for this? In my tests, CRITICAL seems like a "point-in-time" alert and the value of that field is not being used. When the metrics collector proce