What is this feature?
This PR implements compressed periodic save for alert state storage, providing a more efficient alternative to regular periodic saves by grouping alert instances by rule UID and storing them using protobuf and snappy compression. When enabled via the state_compressed_periodic_save_enabled configuration option, the system groups alert instances by their alert rule, compresses each group using protobuf serialization and snappy compression, and processes all rules within a single database transaction at specified intervals instead of syncing after every alert evaluation cycle.
Why do we need this feature?
During discussions in PR #111357, we identified the need for a compressed approach to periodic alert state storage that could further reduce database load beyond the jitter mechanism. While the jitter feature distributes database operations over time, this compressed periodic save approach reduces the frequency of database operations by batching alert state updates at explicitly declared intervals rather than syncing after every alert evaluation cycle.
This approach provides several key benefits:
- Reduced Database Frequency: Instead of frequent sync operations tied to alert evaluation cycles, updates occur only at configured intervals
- Storage Efficiency: Rule-based grouping with protobuf and snappy compression significantly reduces storage requirements
The compressed periodic save complements the existing jitter mechanism by providing an alternative strategy focused on reducing overall database interaction frequency while maintaining data integrity through compression and batching.
Who is this feature for?
- Platform/Infrastructure teams managing large-scale Grafana deployments with high alert cardinality
- Organizations looking to optimize storage costs and database performance for alerting workloads
- Production environments with 1000+ alert rules where database write frequency is a concern
**What is this feature?**
This PR implements a new Prometheus historian backend that allows Grafana alerting to write alert state history as Prometheus-compatible `ALERTS` metrics to remote Prometheus-compatible data sources.
The metric includes a few additional labels:
* `grafana_alertstate`: Grafana's full alert state, more granular than Prometheus.
* `grafana_rule_uid`: Grafana's alert rule UID.
Grafana states are included in the `grafana_alertstate` label also mapped to Prometheus-compatible `alertstate` values:
| Grafana alert state | `alertstate` | `grafana_alertstate` |
|---------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
| `Alerting` | `firing` | `alerting` |
| `Recovering` | `firing` | `recovering` |
| `Pending` | `pending` | `pending` |
| `Error` | `firing` | `error` |
| `NoData` | `firing` | `nodata` |
| `Normal` | _(no metric emitted)_ | _(no metric emitted)_ |
* add method CanReadAllRules to rule authorization service
* add alias type Namespace for Folder in ngalert's models package. It implements the Namespacer interface that is used by authz logic
* update state history's backends to authorize access to rules.
* update Loki to add folders UIDs to query.
* Update BuildLogQuery to drop filter by folders if it's too long and fall back to in-memory filtering.
* Add TracedClient
* Handle errors and status codes
* Wire up tracing to normal ASH and loki annotation mapping
* Add tracing to remote alertmanager
* one more spot
* and not or
* More consistency with other grafana traces, lower cardinality name
* Remove FolderID from service tests
* Add models
* Add folderID pack to publicdashboard tests
* Remove folderID from dashboard tests
* Remove folderID from folders
* Remove folderID from ngalert tests
* Remove nolint comment
* Add back some tests after rebase
* Rename RecordStatesAsync to Record
* Rename QueryStates to Query
* Implement fanout writes
* Implement primary queries
* Simplify error joining
* Add test for query path
* Add tests for writes and error propagation
* Allow fanout backend to be configured
* Touch up log messages and config validation
* Consistent documentation for all backend structs
* Parse and normalize backend names more consistently against an enum
* Touch-ups to documentation
* Improve clarity around multi-record blocking
* Keep primary and secondaries more distinct
* Rename fanout backend to multiple backend
* Simplify config keys for multi backend mode
* stop using the scheduler's Update and Delete methods all communication must be via the database
* update scheduler's registry to calculate diff before re-setting the cache
* update fetcher to return the diff generated by registry
* update processTick to update rule eval routine if the rule was updated and it is not going to be evaluated at this tick.
* remove references to the scheduler from api package
* remove unused methods in the scheduler
* Add field in alert_rule model, add state to alert_instance model, and state to eval
* Remove paused state from eval package
* Skip paused alert rules in scheduler
* Add migration to add is_paused field to alert_rule table
* Convert to postable alerts only if not normal, pernding, or paused
* Handle paused eval results in state manager
* Add Paused state to eval package
* Add paused alerts logic in scheduler
* Skip alert on scheduler
* Remove paused status from eval package
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
* Remove state
* Rethink schedule and manager for paused alerts
* Change return to continue
* Remove unused var
* Rethink alert pausing
* Paused alerts storing annotations
* Only add one state transition
* Revert boolean method renaming refactor
* Revert take image refactor
* Make registry errors public
* Revert method extraction for getting a folder title
* Revert variable renaming refactor
* Undo unnecessary changes
* Revert changes in test
* Remove IsPause check in PatchPartiLAlertRule function
* Use SetNormal to set state
* Fix text by returning to old behaviour on alert rule deletion
* Add test in schedule_unit_test.go to test ticks with paused alerts
* Add coment to clarify usage of context.Background()
* Add comment to clarify resetStateByRuleUID method usage
* Move rule get to a more limited scope
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/schedule/schedule.go
Co-authored-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
* rum gofmt on pkg/services/ngalert/schedule/schedule.go
* Remove defer cancel for context
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/models/instance_test.go
Co-authored-by: Santiago <santiagohernandez.1997@gmail.com>
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/models/testing.go
Co-authored-by: Santiago <santiagohernandez.1997@gmail.com>
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/schedule/schedule_unit_test.go
Co-authored-by: Santiago <santiagohernandez.1997@gmail.com>
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/schedule/schedule_unit_test.go
Co-authored-by: Santiago <santiagohernandez.1997@gmail.com>
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/models/instance_test.go
Co-authored-by: Santiago <santiagohernandez.1997@gmail.com>
* skip scheduler rule state clean up on paused alert rule
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/schedule/schedule.go
Co-authored-by: Santiago <santiagohernandez.1997@gmail.com>
* Fix mock in test
* Add (hopefully) final suggestions
* Use error channel from recordAnnotationsSync to cancel context
* Run make gen-cue
* Place pause alert check in channel update after version check
* Reduce branching un update channel select
* Add if for error and move code inside if in state manager ResetStateByRuleUID
* Add reason to logs
* Update pkg/services/ngalert/schedule/schedule.go
Co-authored-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
* Do not delete alert rule routine, just exit on eval if is paused
* Reduce branching and create-close a channel to avoid deadlocks
* Separate state deletion and state reset (includes history saving)
* Add current pause state in rule route in scheduler
* Split clearState and bring errCh closer to RecordStatesAsync call
* Change rule to ruleMeta in RecordStatesAsync
* copy state to be able to modify it
* Add timeout to context creation
* Shorten the timeout
* Use resetState is rule is paused and deleteState if rule is not paused
* Remove Empty state reason
* Save every rule change in historian
* Add tests for DeleteStateByRuleUID and ResetStateByRuleUID
* Remove useless line
* Remove outdated comment
Co-authored-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Co-authored-by: Santiago <santiagohernandez.1997@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Armand Grillet <2117580+armandgrillet@users.noreply.github.com>
* Nested Folders: Support getting of nested folder in folder service when feature flag is set
* Fix lint
* Fix some tests
* Fix ngalert test
* ngalert fix
* Fix API tests
* Fix some tests and lint
* Fix lint 2
* Fix library elements and panels
* Add access control to get folder
* Cleanup and minor test change
* Move fakeRuleStore to tests/fakes package
* Break stub dependencies on store
* Update existing tests to point to new location
* Remove unused stub of TimeNow
* Rename fake to take advantage of package name
* update RouteDeleteAlertRules rules to update as a group
* remove expecter from scheduler mock to support variadic function
* create function to check for provisioning status + tests
Co-authored-by: Alexander Weaver <weaver.alex.d@gmail.com>
* remove support for bus from scheduler
* rename event to FolderTitleUpdated and fire only if title has changed
* add method to increase version of all rules that belong to a folder
* update ngalert service to subscribe to folder title change event call data store and update scheduler
* add tests
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