Alerting: Add rule_matcher filter to Prometheus rules API (#115297)

**What is this feature?**

Add `rule_matcher` filter to the Prometheus-compatible list rules API: `/api/prometheus/grafana/api/v1/rules`. It allows to filter rules by static labels (not by alert instance labels).

**Special notes:**
  - Equality (`=`) and inequality (`!=`) matchers are pushed down to the database. Regex matchers (`=~`, `!~`) are applied in-memory at the API layer.
  - SQLite: Uses GLOB pattern matching
  - MySQL / PostgreSQL: Use JSON functions to compare label values


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Co-authored-by: Konrad Lalik <konradlalik@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Alexander Akhmetov
2025-12-16 14:13:50 +01:00
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Konrad Lalik
parent c7c1dd4ead
commit c0295d06a3
18 changed files with 1137 additions and 71 deletions
@@ -2886,6 +2886,189 @@ func TestRouteGetRuleStatuses(t *testing.T) {
})
}
})
t.Run("with rule_matcher filter", func(t *testing.T) {
fakeStore, fakeAIM, api := setupAPI(t)
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule1"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "alerting", "severity": "critical"}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule2"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "Alerting", "severity": "warning"}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule3"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "platform", "severity": "critical"}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule4"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"env": "production"}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule_special"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"key": `value"with"quotes`}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule_empty"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"empty": ""}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule_nonempty"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"empty": "nonempty"}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule_multiline"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"description": "line1\nline2\\end\"quote"}), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
testCases := []struct {
name string
matchers []string
expectedUIDs []string
}{
{
name: "equality matcher filters by team=alerting",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"team","value":"alerting","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule1"},
},
{
name: "inequality matcher filters severity!=warning",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"severity","value":"warning","isRegex":false,"isEqual":false}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule1", "rule3", "rule4", "rule_special", "rule_empty", "rule_nonempty", "rule_multiline"},
},
{
name: "regex matcher filters team=~plat.*",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"team","value":"plat.*","isRegex":true,"isEqual":true}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule3"},
},
{
name: "not-regex matcher filters severity!~warn.*",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"severity","value":"warn.*","isRegex":true,"isEqual":false}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule1", "rule3", "rule4", "rule_special", "rule_empty", "rule_nonempty", "rule_multiline"},
},
{
name: "multiple matchers are ANDed",
matchers: []string{
`{"name":"team","value":"alerting","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`,
`{"name":"severity","value":"critical","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`,
},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule1"},
},
{
name: "matcher with non-existent label returns no rules",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"nonexistent","value":"value","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{},
},
{
name: "equality matcher is case-sensitive",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"team","value":"Alerting","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule2"},
},
{
name: "quotes in label value are handled correctly",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"key","value":"value\"with\"quotes","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule_special"},
},
{
name: "no matchers returns all rules",
matchers: []string{},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule1", "rule2", "rule3", "rule4", "rule_special", "rule_empty", "rule_nonempty", "rule_multiline"},
},
{
name: "empty string value matches correctly",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"empty","value":"","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule1", "rule2", "rule3", "rule4", "rule_special", "rule_empty", "rule_multiline"},
},
{
name: "special characters in label value are handled correctly",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"description","value":"line1\nline2\\end\"quote","isRegex":false,"isEqual":true}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule_multiline"},
},
{
name: "inequality matcher on non-existent label matches all rules",
matchers: []string{`{"name":"nonexistent","value":"value","isRegex":false,"isEqual":false}`},
expectedUIDs: []string{"rule1", "rule2", "rule3", "rule4", "rule_special", "rule_empty", "rule_nonempty", "rule_multiline"},
},
}
for _, tc := range testCases {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
reqURL := "/api/v1/rules"
for i, matcher := range tc.matchers {
if i == 0 {
reqURL += "?rule_matcher=" + url.QueryEscape(matcher)
} else {
reqURL += "&rule_matcher=" + url.QueryEscape(matcher)
}
}
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", reqURL, nil)
require.NoError(t, err)
ctx := &contextmodel.ReqContext{
Context: &web.Context{Req: req},
SignedInUser: &user.SignedInUser{OrgID: orgID, Permissions: queryPermissions},
}
resp := api.RouteGetRuleStatuses(ctx)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.Status())
var res apimodels.RuleResponse
require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(resp.Body(), &res))
require.Equal(t, "success", res.Status)
actualUIDs := []string{}
for _, group := range res.Data.RuleGroups {
for _, rule := range group.Rules {
actualUIDs = append(actualUIDs, rule.UID)
}
}
require.ElementsMatch(t, tc.expectedUIDs, actualUIDs)
})
}
})
t.Run("pagination with rule_matcher in-memory filtering", func(t *testing.T) {
fakeStore, fakeAIM, api := setupAPI(t)
// Create 3 groups with 2 rules each:
// Group 1 & 2: team=backend (won't match filter)
// Group 3: team=frontend (will match filter)
// This tests that pagination continues fetching when early pages are filtered out
group1Key := ngmodels.AlertRuleGroupKey{OrgID: orgID, NamespaceUID: "namespace1", RuleGroup: "group1"}
group2Key := ngmodels.AlertRuleGroupKey{OrgID: orgID, NamespaceUID: "namespace2", RuleGroup: "group2"}
group3Key := ngmodels.AlertRuleGroupKey{OrgID: orgID, NamespaceUID: "namespace3", RuleGroup: "group3"}
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule1"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "security"}), gen.WithGroupKey(group1Key), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule2"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "security"}), gen.WithGroupKey(group1Key), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule3"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "security"}), gen.WithGroupKey(group2Key), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule4"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "security"}), gen.WithGroupKey(group2Key), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule5"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "alerting"}), gen.WithGroupKey(group3Key), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
generateRuleAndInstanceWithQuery(t, orgID, fakeAIM, fakeStore, withClassicConditionSingleQuery(),
gen.WithUID("rule6"), gen.WithLabels(map[string]string{"team": "alerting"}), gen.WithGroupKey(group3Key), gen.WithNoNotificationSettings())
// Request with regex rule_matcher filter for team=~"alerting" and group_limit=1 to force pagination
matcher := `{"name":"team","value":"alerting","isRegex":true,"isEqual":true}`
reqURL := "/api/v1/rules?rule_matcher=" + url.QueryEscape(matcher) + "&group_limit=1"
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", reqURL, nil)
require.NoError(t, err)
ctx := &contextmodel.ReqContext{
Context: &web.Context{Req: req},
SignedInUser: &user.SignedInUser{OrgID: orgID, Permissions: queryPermissions},
}
resp := api.RouteGetRuleStatuses(ctx)
require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, resp.Status())
var res apimodels.RuleResponse
require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(resp.Body(), &res))
require.Equal(t, "success", res.Status)
actualUIDs := []string{}
for _, group := range res.Data.RuleGroups {
for _, rule := range group.Rules {
actualUIDs = append(actualUIDs, rule.UID)
}
}
// Should return group3 rules (rule5, rule6), pagination should continue past filtered groups
require.ElementsMatch(t, []string{"rule5", "rule6"}, actualUIDs)
})
}
func setupAPI(t *testing.T) (*fakes.RuleStore, *fakeAlertInstanceManager, PrometheusSrv) {