VMRule

VMRule represents alerting or recording rules for VMAlert instances.

The VMRule CRD declaratively defines a desired Prometheus rule to be consumed by one or more VMAlert instances.

VMRule object generates VMAlert with ruleset defined at VMRule spec.

Alerts and recording rules can be saved and applied as YAML files, and dynamically loaded without requiring any restart.

See more details about rule configuration in VMAlert docs.

Specification #

You can see the full actual specification of the VMRule resource in the API docs -> VMRule.

Also, you can check out the examples section.

Enterprise features #

Custom resource VMRule supports feature Multitenancy from VictoriaMetrics Enterprise.

Multitenancy #

For using Multitenancy in VMRule you need to enable VMAlert Enterprise.

After that you can add tenant field for groups in VMRule:

apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
kind: VMRule
metadata:
  name: vmrule-ent-example
spec:
  groups:
    - name: vmalert-1
      rules:
        # using enterprise features: Multitenancy
        # more details about multitenancy you can read on https://docs.victoriametrics.com/operator/resources/vmalert#multitenancy
        - tenant: 1
          alert: vmalert config reload error
          expr: delta(vmalert_config_last_reload_errors_total[5m]) > 0
          for: 10s
          labels:
            severity: major
            job:  "{{ $labels.job }}"
          annotations:
            value: "{{ $value }}"
            description: 'error reloading vmalert config, reload count for 5 min {{ $value }}'

Examples #

Alerting rule #

apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
kind: VMRule
metadata:
  name: vmrule-alerting-example
spec:
  groups:
    - name: vmalert
      rules:
        - alert: vmalert config reload error
          expr: delta(vmalert_config_last_reload_errors_total[5m]) > 0
          for: 10s
          labels:
            severity: major
            job:  "{{ $labels.job }}"
          annotations:
            value: "{{ $value }}"
            description: 'error reloading vmalert config, reload count for 5 min {{ $value }}'

Recording rule #

apiVersion: operator.victoriametrics.com/v1beta1
kind: VMRule
metadata:
  name: vmrule-recording-example
spec:
  groups:
    - name: vmrule_recording_groupname
      interval: 1m
      rules:
        - record: vm_http_request_errors_total:sum_by_cluster_namespace_job:rate:5m
          expr: |-
            sum by (cluster, namespace, job) (
              rate(vm_http_request_errors_total[5m])
            )