From 8aff343ce333ebac672487e04a1aac54df238a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: utkarshcmu Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 02:11:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Added docs for Kafka alerting --- docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md b/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md index de9e5abd472..102134f34dd 100644 --- a/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md +++ b/docs/sources/alerting/notifications.md @@ -115,6 +115,17 @@ In DingTalk PC Client: Dingtalk supports the following "message type": `text`, `link` and `markdown`. Only the `text` message type is supported. +### Kafka + +Notifications can be sent to a Kafka topic from Grafana using [Kafka REST Proxy](https://docs.confluent.io/1.0/kafka-rest/docs/index.html). +There are couple of configurations options which need to be set in Grafana UI under Kafka Settings: + +1. Kafka REST Proxy endpoint. + +2. Kafka Topic. + +Once these two properties are set, you can send the alerts to Kafka for further processing or throttling them. + ### Other Supported Notification Channels Grafana also supports the following Notification Channels: