NOTE: The rule component is experimental since it has conceptual tradeoffs that might not be favorable for most use cases. It is recommended to keep deploying rules to the relevant Prometheus servers.
The rule component should in particular not be used to circumvent solving rule deployment properly at the configuration management level.
The rule component evaluates Prometheus recording and alerting rules against random query nodes in its cluster. Rule results are written back to disk in the Prometheus 2.0 storage format. Rule nodes at the same time participate in the cluster themselves as source store nodes and upload their generated TSDB blocks to an object store.
The data of each rule node can be labeled to satisfy the clusters labeling scheme. High-availability pairs can be run in parallel and should be distinguished by the designated replica label, just like regular Prometheus servers.
$ thanos rule \
--data-dir "/path/to/data" \
--eval-interval "30s" \
--rule-file "/path/to/rules/*.rules.yaml" \
--alert.query-url "http://0.0.0.0:9090" \
--alertmanagers.url "alert.thanos.io" \
--cluster.peers "thanos-cluster.example.org" \
--objstore.config-file "bucket.yml"
The content of bucket.yml:
type: GCS
config:
bucket: example-bucket
As rule nodes outsource query processing to query nodes, they should generally experience little load. If necessary, functional sharding can be applied by splitting up the sets of rules between HA pairs. Rules are processed with deduplicated data according to the replica label configured on query nodes.
usage: thanos rule [<flags>]
ruler evaluating Prometheus rules against given Query nodes, exposing Store API
and storing old blocks in bucket
Flags:
-h, --help Show context-sensitive help (also try
--help-long and --help-man).
--version Show application version.
--log.level=info Log filtering level.
--log.format=logfmt Log format to use.
--gcloudtrace.project=GCLOUDTRACE.PROJECT
GCP project to send Google Cloud Trace tracings
to. If empty, tracing will be disabled.
--gcloudtrace.sample-factor=1
How often we send traces (1/<sample-factor>).
If 0 no trace will be sent periodically, unless
forced by baggage item. See
`pkg/tracing/tracing.go` for details.
--grpc-address="0.0.0.0:10901"
Listen ip:port address for gRPC endpoints
(StoreAPI). Make sure this address is routable
from other components if you use gossip,
'grpc-advertise-address' is empty and you
require cross-node connection.
--grpc-advertise-address=GRPC-ADVERTISE-ADDRESS
Explicit (external) host:port address to
advertise for gRPC StoreAPI in gossip cluster.
If empty, 'grpc-address' will be used.
--grpc-server-tls-cert="" TLS Certificate for gRPC server, leave blank to
disable TLS
--grpc-server-tls-key="" TLS Key for the gRPC server, leave blank to
disable TLS
--grpc-server-tls-client-ca=""
TLS CA to verify clients against. If no client
CA is specified, there is no client
verification on server side. (tls.NoClientCert)
--http-address="0.0.0.0:10902"
Listen host:port for HTTP endpoints.
--cluster.address="0.0.0.0:10900"
Listen ip:port address for gossip cluster.
--cluster.advertise-address=CLUSTER.ADVERTISE-ADDRESS
Explicit (external) ip:port address to
advertise for gossip in gossip cluster. Used
internally for membership only.
--cluster.peers=CLUSTER.PEERS ...
Initial peers to join the cluster. It can be
either <ip:port>, or <domain:port>. A lookup
resolution is done only at the startup.
--cluster.gossip-interval=<gossip interval>
Interval between sending gossip messages. By
lowering this value (more frequent) gossip
messages are propagated across the cluster more
quickly at the expense of increased bandwidth.
Default is used from a specified network-type.
--cluster.pushpull-interval=<push-pull interval>
Interval for gossip state syncs. Setting this
interval lower (more frequent) will increase
convergence speeds across larger clusters at
the expense of increased bandwidth usage.
Default is used from a specified network-type.
--cluster.refresh-interval=1m
Interval for membership to refresh
cluster.peers state, 0 disables refresh.
--cluster.secret-key=CLUSTER.SECRET-KEY
Initial secret key to encrypt cluster gossip.
Can be one of AES-128, AES-192, or AES-256 in
hexadecimal format.
--cluster.network-type=lan
Network type with predefined peers
configurations. Sets of configurations
accounting the latency differences between
network types: local, lan, wan.
--cluster.disable If true gossip will be disabled and no cluster
related server will be started.
--label=<name>="<value>" ...
Labels to be applied to all generated metrics
(repeated). Similar to external labels for
Prometheus, used to identify ruler and its
blocks as unique source.
--data-dir="data/" data directory
--rule-file=rules/ ... Rule files that should be used by rule manager.
Can be in glob format (repeated).
--eval-interval=30s The default evaluation interval to use.
--tsdb.block-duration=2h Block duration for TSDB block.
--tsdb.retention=48h Block retention time on local disk.
--alertmanagers.url=ALERTMANAGERS.URL ...
Alertmanager replica URLs to push firing
alerts. Ruler claims success if push to at
least one alertmanager from discovered
succeeds. The scheme may be prefixed with
'dns+' or 'dnssrv+' to detect Alertmanager IPs
through respective DNS lookups. The port
defaults to 9093 or the SRV record's value. The
URL path is used as a prefix for the regular
Alertmanager API path.
--alertmanagers.send-timeout=10s
Timeout for sending alerts to alertmanager
--alert.query-url=ALERT.QUERY-URL
The external Thanos Query URL that would be set
in all alerts 'Source' field
--alert.label-drop=ALERT.LABEL-DROP ...
Labels by name to drop before sending to
alertmanager. This allows alert to be
deduplicated on replica label (repeated).
Similar Prometheus alert relabelling
--web.route-prefix="" Prefix for API and UI endpoints. This allows
thanos UI to be served on a sub-path. This
option is analogous to --web.route-prefix of
Promethus.
--web.external-prefix="" Static prefix for all HTML links and redirect
URLs in the UI query web interface. Actual
endpoints are still served on / or the
web.route-prefix. This allows thanos UI to be
served behind a reverse proxy that strips a URL
sub-path.
--web.prefix-header="" Name of HTTP request header used for dynamic
prefixing of UI links and redirects. This
option is ignored if web.external-prefix
argument is set. Security risk: enable this
option only if a reverse proxy in front of
thanos is resetting the header. The
--web.prefix-header=X-Forwarded-Prefix option
can be useful, for example, if Thanos UI is
served via Traefik reverse proxy with
PathPrefixStrip option enabled, which sends the
stripped prefix value in X-Forwarded-Prefix
header. This allows thanos UI to be served on a
sub-path.
--objstore.config-file=<bucket.config-yaml-path>
Path to YAML file that contains object store
configuration.
--objstore.config=<bucket.config-yaml>
Alternative to 'objstore.config-file' flag.
Object store configuration in YAML.
--query=<query> ... Addresses of statically configured query API
servers (repeatable). The scheme may be
prefixed with 'dns+' or 'dnssrv+' to detect
query API servers through respective DNS
lookups.
--query.sd-files=<path> ...
Path to file that contain addresses of query
peers. The path can be a glob pattern
(repeatable).
--query.sd-interval=5m Refresh interval to re-read file SD files.
(used as a fallback)
--query.sd-dns-interval=30s
Interval between DNS resolutions.