consul-alerts

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Published: Feb 17, 2015 License: GPL-2.0 Imports: 16 Imported by: 0

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consul-alerts

A simple daemon to send notifications based on Consul health checks.

Requirement

  1. Consul 0.4+. Get it here.
  2. Configured GOPATH.

Releases

Stable release are here.

Latest release are found here:

Installation

$ go get github.com/AcalephStorage/consul-alerts
$ go install

This should install consul-alerts to $GOPATH/bin

or pull the image from docker:

$ docker pull acaleph/consul-alerts

Usage

$ consul-alerts start

or using docker:

$ docker run acaleph/consul-alerts start

By default, this runs the daemon and API at localhost:9000 and connects to the local consul agent (localhost:8500) and default datacenter (dc1). These can be overriden by the following flags:

$ consul-alerts start --alert-addr=localhost:9000 --consul-addr=localhost:8500 --consul-dc=dc1

Note: Don't change --alert-addr when using the docker container.

Once the daemon is running, it can act as a handler for consul watches. At the moment only checks and events are supported.

$ consul watch -type checks consul-alerts watch checks [--alert-addr=localhost:9000]
$ consul watch -type event consul-alerts watch event [--alert-addr=localhost:9000]

or run the watchers on the agent the daemon connects by adding the following flags during consul-alerts run:

$ consul-alerts start --watch-events --watch-checks

Configuration

All configurations are stored in consul's KV with the prefix: consul-alerts/config/. The daemon is using default values and the KV entries will only override the defaults.

Health Checks

Health checking is enabled by default. This also triggers the notification when a check has changed status for a configured duration. Health checks can be disabled by setting the kvconsul-alerts/config/checks/enabled to false.

To prevent flapping, notifications are only sent when a check status has been stable for a specific time in seconds (60 by default). this value can be changed by adding/changing the kv consul-alerts/config/checks/change-threshold to an integer greater than and divisible by 10.

eg. consul-alerts/config/checks/change-threshold = 30

Enable/Disable Specific Health Checks

There are four ways to enable/disable health check notifications: mark them by node, serviceID, checkID, or mark individually by node/serviceID/checkID. This is done by adding a KV entry in consul-alerts/config/checks/blacklist/.... Removing the entry will re-enable the check notifications.

Disable all notification by node

Add a KV entry with the key consul-alerts/config/checks/blacklist/nodes/{{ nodeName }}. This will disable notifications for the specified nodeName.

Disable all notification by service

Add a KV entry with the key consul-alerts/config/checks/blacklist/services/{{ serviceId }}. This will disable notifications for the specified serviceId.

Disable all notification by healthCheck

Add a KV entry with the key consul-alerts/config/checks/blacklist/checks/{{ checkId }}. This will disable notifications for the specified checkId.

Disable a single health check

Add a KV entry with the key consul-alerts/config/checks/blacklist/single/{{ node }}/{{ serviceId }}/{{ checkId }}. This will disable the specific health check. If the health check is not associated with a service, use the _ as the serviceId.

Events

Event handling is enabled by default. This delegates any consul event received by the agent to the list of handlers configured. To disable event handling, set consul-alerts/config/events/enabled to false.

Handlers can be configured by adding them to consul-alerts/config/events/handlers. This should be a JSON array of string. Each string should point to any executable. The event data should be read from stdin.

Notifiers

There are four builtin notifiers. Only the Log notifier is enabled by default. It is also possible to add custom notifiers similar to custom event handlers. Custom notifiers can be added in consul-alerts/config/notifiers/custom.

Logger

This logs any health check notification to a file. To disable this notifier, set consul-alerts/config/notifiers/log/enabled to false.

The log file is set to /tmp/consul-notifications.log by default. This can be changed by changing consul-alerts/config/notifiers/log/path.

Email

This emails the health notifications. To enable this, set consul-alerts/config/notifiers/email/enabled to true.

The email and smtp details needs to be configured:

prefix: consul-alerts/config/notifiers/email/

key description
enabled Enable the email notifier. [Default: false]
cluster-name The name of the cluster. [Default: "Consul Alerts"]
url The SMTP server url
port The SMTP server port
username The SMTP username
password The SMTP password
sender-alias The sender alias. [Default: "Consul Alerts"]
sender-email The sender email
receivers The emails of the receivers. JSON array of string
template Path to custom email template. [Default: internal template]

The template can be any go html template. An EmailData instance will be passed to the template.

InfluxDB

This sends the notifications as series points in influxdb. Set consul-alerts/config/notifiers/influxdb/enabled to true to enabled. InfluxDB details need to be set too.

prefix: consul-alerts/config/notifiers/influxdb/

key description
enabled Enable the influxdb notifier. [Default: false]
host The influxdb host. (eg. localhost:8086)
username The influxdb username
password The influxdb password
database The influxdb database name
series-name The series name for the points
Slack

Slack integration is also supported. To enable, set consul-alerts/config/notifiers/slack/enabled to true. Slack details needs to be configured.

prefix: consul-alerts/config/notifiers/slack/

key description
enabled Enable the Slack notifier. [Default: false]
cluster-name The name of the cluster. [Default: "Consul Alerts"]
url The incoming-webhook url (mandatory)
channel The channel to post the notification (mandatory)
username The username to appear on the post
icon-url URL of a custom image for the notification
icon-emoji Emoji (if not using icon-url) for the notification

In order to enable slack integration, you have to create a new Incoming WebHooks. Then use the token created by the previous action.

PagerDuty

To enable PagerDuty built-in notifier, set consul-alerts/config/notifiers/pagerduty/enabled to true. This is disabled by default. Service key and client details also needs to be configured.

prefix: consul-alerts/config/notifiers/pagerduty/

key description
enabled Enable the PagerDuty notifier. [Default: false]
service-key Service key to access PagerDuty
client-name The monitoring client name
client-url The monitoring client url

Health Check via API

Health status can also be queried via the API. This can be used for compatibility with nagios, sensu, or other monitoring tools. To get the status of a specific check, use the following entrypoint.

http://consul-alerts:9000/v1/health?node=<node>&service=<serviceId>&check=<checkId>

This will return the output of the check and the following HTTP codes:

Status Code
passing 200
warning 503
critical 503
unknown 404

Contribution

PRs are more than welcome. Just fork, create a feature branch, and open a PR. We love PRs. :)

TODO

This is a port from a tool we developed recently, there are still a few things missing like loading a custom configuration via command/api instead of manually editing consul's KV. Also need to set up a reminder feature. Needs better doc and some cleanup too. :)

Documentation

Overview

Consul Alerts is a tool to send alerts when checks changes status. It is built on top of consul KV, Health, and watch features.

Directories

Path Synopsis
Godeps
_workspace/src/github.com/darkcrux/consul-skipper
consul-skipper is a library for a cluster leader election using Consul KV.
consul-skipper is a library for a cluster leader election using Consul KV.
_workspace/src/github.com/darkcrux/gopherduty
A simple Go client for PagerDuty's API.
A simple Go client for PagerDuty's API.
_workspace/src/github.com/docopt/docopt-go
Package docopt parses command-line arguments based on a help message.
Package docopt parses command-line arguments based on a help message.

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