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Remove metrics from compat package #3714

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This commit removes the metrics from the compat package in favour of the existing logging and the additional tools at hand, such as amtool, to validate Alertmanager configurations.

Due to the global nature of the compat package, a consequence of config.Load, these metrics have proven to be less useful in practice than expected, both in Alertmanager and other projects such as Mimir.

There are a number of reasons for this:

  1. Because the compat package is global, these metrics cannot be reset each time config.Load is called, as in multi-tenant projects like Mimir loading a config for one tenant would reset the metrics for all tenants. This is also the reason the metrics are counters and not gauges.

  2. Since the metrics are counters, it is difficult to create meaningful dashboards for Alertmanager as, unlike in Mimir, configurations are not reloaded at fixed intervals, and as such, operators cannot use rate to track configuration changes over time.

In Alertmanager, there are much better tools available to validate that an Alertmanager configuration is compatible with the UTF-8 parser, including both the existing logging from Alertmanager server and amtool check-config.

In other projects like Mimir, we can track configurations for individual tenants using log aggregation and storage systems such as Loki. This gives operators far more information than what is possible with the metrics, including the timestamp, input and ID of tenant configurations that are incompatible or have disagreement.

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LGTM, but please look at my comment.

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Remove metrics from compat package
e2e574a 
This commit removes the metrics from the compat package
in favour of the existing logging and the additional tools
at hand, such as amtool, to validate Alertmanager configurations.

Due to the global nature of the compat package, a consequence
of config.Load, these metrics have proven to be less useful
in practice than expected, both in Alertmanager and other projects
such as Mimir.

There are a number of reasons for this:

1. Because the compat package is global, these metrics cannot be
   reset each time config.Load is called, as in multi-tenant
   projects like Mimir loading a config for one tenant would reset
   the metrics for all tenants. This is also the reason the metrics
   are counters and not gauges.

2. Since the metrics are counters, it is difficult to create
   meaningful dashboards for Alertmanager as, unlike in Mimir,
   configurations are not reloaded at fixed intervals, and as such,
   operators cannot use rate to track configuration changes
   over time.

In Alertmanager, there are much better tools available to validate
that an Alertmanager configuration is compatible with the UTF-8
parser, including both the existing logging from Alertmanager
server and amtool check-config.

In other projects like Mimir, we can track configurations for
individual tenants using log aggregation and storage systems
such as Loki. This gives operators far more information than
what is possible with the metrics, including the timestamp,
input and ID of tenant configurations that are incompatible
or have disagreement.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
@grobinson-grafana grobinson-grafana force-pushed the grobinson/remove-compat-metrics branch from cdfb679 to e2e574a Compare February 8, 2024 09:39
@gotjosh gotjosh merged commit f69a508 into prometheus:main Feb 8, 2024
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@grobinson-grafana @th0th
Remove metrics from compat package (prometheus#3714)
22efa9b 
This commit removes the metrics from the compat package
in favour of the existing logging and the additional tools
at hand, such as amtool, to validate Alertmanager configurations.

Due to the global nature of the compat package, a consequence
of config.Load, these metrics have proven to be less useful
in practice than expected, both in Alertmanager and other projects
such as Mimir.

There are a number of reasons for this:

1. Because the compat package is global, these metrics cannot be
   reset each time config.Load is called, as in multi-tenant
   projects like Mimir loading a config for one tenant would reset
   the metrics for all tenants. This is also the reason the metrics
   are counters and not gauges.

2. Since the metrics are counters, it is difficult to create
   meaningful dashboards for Alertmanager as, unlike in Mimir,
   configurations are not reloaded at fixed intervals, and as such,
   operators cannot use rate to track configuration changes
   over time.

In Alertmanager, there are much better tools available to validate
that an Alertmanager configuration is compatible with the UTF-8
parser, including both the existing logging from Alertmanager
server and amtool check-config.

In other projects like Mimir, we can track configurations for
individual tenants using log aggregation and storage systems
such as Loki. This gives operators far more information than
what is possible with the metrics, including the timestamp,
input and ID of tenant configurations that are incompatible
or have disagreement.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>
th0th pushed a commit to th0th/alertmanager that referenced this pull request Mar 25, 2024
@grobinson-grafana @th0th
Remove metrics from compat package (prometheus#3714)
881c10a 
This commit removes the metrics from the compat package
in favour of the existing logging and the additional tools
at hand, such as amtool, to validate Alertmanager configurations.

Due to the global nature of the compat package, a consequence
of config.Load, these metrics have proven to be less useful
in practice than expected, both in Alertmanager and other projects
such as Mimir.

There are a number of reasons for this:

1. Because the compat package is global, these metrics cannot be
   reset each time config.Load is called, as in multi-tenant
   projects like Mimir loading a config for one tenant would reset
   the metrics for all tenants. This is also the reason the metrics
   are counters and not gauges.

2. Since the metrics are counters, it is difficult to create
   meaningful dashboards for Alertmanager as, unlike in Mimir,
   configurations are not reloaded at fixed intervals, and as such,
   operators cannot use rate to track configuration changes
   over time.

In Alertmanager, there are much better tools available to validate
that an Alertmanager configuration is compatible with the UTF-8
parser, including both the existing logging from Alertmanager
server and amtool check-config.

In other projects like Mimir, we can track configurations for
individual tenants using log aggregation and storage systems
such as Loki. This gives operators far more information than
what is possible with the metrics, including the timestamp,
input and ID of tenant configurations that are incompatible
or have disagreement.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>
@grobinson-grafana grobinson-grafana deleted the grobinson/remove-compat-metrics branch April 16, 2024 14:44
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Enable setting ThreadId for telegram notifications
a6bf292 
Fix the typo

Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Update tests

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Update documentation

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Update notifiers_test.go

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Update notifiers_test.go

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Use int32 instead of int64 for MessageThreadID

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Bump github.com/go-openapi/swag from 0.22.4 to 0.22.7 (prometheus#3655)

Bumps [github.com/go-openapi/swag](https://github.com/go-openapi/swag) from 0.22.4 to 0.22.7.
- [Commits](go-openapi/swag@v0.22.4...v0.22.7)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/go-openapi/swag
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
...

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Support UTF-8 label matchers: Add metrics to matchers compat package (prometheus#3658)

* Add metrics to matchers compat package

This commit adds the following metrics to the compat package:

  alertmanager_matchers_parse
  alertmanager_matchers_disagree
  alertmanager_matchers_incompatible
  alertmanager_matchers_invalid

With a label called origin to differentiate the different sources
of inputs: the configuration file, the API, and amtool.

The disagree_total metric is incremented when an input is invalid
in both parsers, but results in different parsed representations,
then there is disagreement. This should not happen, and suggests
their is either a bug in one of the parsers or a mistake in the
backwards compatible guarantees of the matchers/parse parser.

The incompatible_total metric is incremented when an input is valid
in pkg/labels, but not the UTF-8 parser in matchers/parse. In such
case, the matcher should be updated to be compatible. This often
means adding double quotes around the right hand side of the matcher.
For example, foo="bar".

The invalid_total metric is incremented when an input is invalid
in both parsers. This was never a valid input.

The tests have been updated to check the metrics are incremented
as expected.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Change compat metrics to counters (prometheus#3686)

This commit changes the metrics in the compat package from gauges
to counters. The reason for this is that in some cases the gauge
should behave like a gauge (i.e. loading configurations) but in
other cases should behave like a counter (i.e. HTTP requests).

Second, because the compat package is a global package
(due to how config.Load works), in tenanted systems like Cortex
and Mimir it was non-trivial to reset the gauges per tenant
each time their configuration was reloaded.

Instead, it's easier to compute the rate of increase as 0 instead
of check that the gauge is 0 to know if UTF-8 strict mode can be
enabled.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Bump github.com/go-openapi/errors from 0.20.4 to 0.21.0

Bumps [github.com/go-openapi/errors](https://github.com/go-openapi/errors) from 0.20.4 to 0.21.0.
- [Commits](go-openapi/errors@v0.20.4...v0.21.0)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/go-openapi/errors
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Bump github.com/go-openapi/swag from 0.22.7 to 0.22.9

Bumps [github.com/go-openapi/swag](https://github.com/go-openapi/swag) from 0.22.7 to 0.22.9.
- [Commits](go-openapi/swag@v0.22.7...v0.22.9)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/go-openapi/swag
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Bump eslint from 8.35.0 to 8.56.0 in /ui/react-app (prometheus#3692)

Bumps [eslint](https://github.com/eslint/eslint) from 8.35.0 to 8.56.0.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](eslint/eslint@v8.35.0...v8.56.0)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: eslint
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Do not register compat metrics in amtool (prometheus#3713)

There is no need to register these metrics in amtool, so use
compat.NewMetrics(nil) instead of compat.RegisteredMetrics.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Remove metrics from compat package (prometheus#3714)

This commit removes the metrics from the compat package
in favour of the existing logging and the additional tools
at hand, such as amtool, to validate Alertmanager configurations.

Due to the global nature of the compat package, a consequence
of config.Load, these metrics have proven to be less useful
in practice than expected, both in Alertmanager and other projects
such as Mimir.

There are a number of reasons for this:

1. Because the compat package is global, these metrics cannot be
   reset each time config.Load is called, as in multi-tenant
   projects like Mimir loading a config for one tenant would reset
   the metrics for all tenants. This is also the reason the metrics
   are counters and not gauges.

2. Since the metrics are counters, it is difficult to create
   meaningful dashboards for Alertmanager as, unlike in Mimir,
   configurations are not reloaded at fixed intervals, and as such,
   operators cannot use rate to track configuration changes
   over time.

In Alertmanager, there are much better tools available to validate
that an Alertmanager configuration is compatible with the UTF-8
parser, including both the existing logging from Alertmanager
server and amtool check-config.

In other projects like Mimir, we can track configurations for
individual tenants using log aggregation and storage systems
such as Loki. This gives operators far more information than
what is possible with the metrics, including the timestamp,
input and ID of tenant configurations that are incompatible
or have disagreement.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Fix the typo
th0th added a commit to th0th/alertmanager that referenced this pull request Apr 18, 2024
@th0th
Enable setting ThreadId for telegram notifications
7ab5ae6 
Fix the typo

Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Update tests

Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Update documentation

Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Update notifiers_test.go

Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Update notifiers_test.go

Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Use int32 instead of int64 for MessageThreadID

Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Bump github.com/go-openapi/swag from 0.22.4 to 0.22.7 (prometheus#3655)

Bumps [github.com/go-openapi/swag](https://github.com/go-openapi/swag) from 0.22.4 to 0.22.7.
- [Commits](go-openapi/swag@v0.22.4...v0.22.7)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/go-openapi/swag
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Support UTF-8 label matchers: Add metrics to matchers compat package (prometheus#3658)

* Add metrics to matchers compat package

This commit adds the following metrics to the compat package:

  alertmanager_matchers_parse
  alertmanager_matchers_disagree
  alertmanager_matchers_incompatible
  alertmanager_matchers_invalid

With a label called origin to differentiate the different sources
of inputs: the configuration file, the API, and amtool.

The disagree_total metric is incremented when an input is invalid
in both parsers, but results in different parsed representations,
then there is disagreement. This should not happen, and suggests
their is either a bug in one of the parsers or a mistake in the
backwards compatible guarantees of the matchers/parse parser.

The incompatible_total metric is incremented when an input is valid
in pkg/labels, but not the UTF-8 parser in matchers/parse. In such
case, the matcher should be updated to be compatible. This often
means adding double quotes around the right hand side of the matcher.
For example, foo="bar".

The invalid_total metric is incremented when an input is invalid
in both parsers. This was never a valid input.

The tests have been updated to check the metrics are incremented
as expected.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Change compat metrics to counters (prometheus#3686)

This commit changes the metrics in the compat package from gauges
to counters. The reason for this is that in some cases the gauge
should behave like a gauge (i.e. loading configurations) but in
other cases should behave like a counter (i.e. HTTP requests).

Second, because the compat package is a global package
(due to how config.Load works), in tenanted systems like Cortex
and Mimir it was non-trivial to reset the gauges per tenant
each time their configuration was reloaded.

Instead, it's easier to compute the rate of increase as 0 instead
of check that the gauge is 0 to know if UTF-8 strict mode can be
enabled.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Bump github.com/go-openapi/errors from 0.20.4 to 0.21.0

Bumps [github.com/go-openapi/errors](https://github.com/go-openapi/errors) from 0.20.4 to 0.21.0.
- [Commits](go-openapi/errors@v0.20.4...v0.21.0)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/go-openapi/errors
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Bump github.com/go-openapi/swag from 0.22.7 to 0.22.9

Bumps [github.com/go-openapi/swag](https://github.com/go-openapi/swag) from 0.22.7 to 0.22.9.
- [Commits](go-openapi/swag@v0.22.7...v0.22.9)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: github.com/go-openapi/swag
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Bump eslint from 8.35.0 to 8.56.0 in /ui/react-app (prometheus#3692)

Bumps [eslint](https://github.com/eslint/eslint) from 8.35.0 to 8.56.0.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](eslint/eslint@v8.35.0...v8.56.0)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: eslint
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-minor
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Do not register compat metrics in amtool (prometheus#3713)

There is no need to register these metrics in amtool, so use
compat.NewMetrics(nil) instead of compat.RegisteredMetrics.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Remove metrics from compat package (prometheus#3714)

This commit removes the metrics from the compat package
in favour of the existing logging and the additional tools
at hand, such as amtool, to validate Alertmanager configurations.

Due to the global nature of the compat package, a consequence
of config.Load, these metrics have proven to be less useful
in practice than expected, both in Alertmanager and other projects
such as Mimir.

There are a number of reasons for this:

1. Because the compat package is global, these metrics cannot be
   reset each time config.Load is called, as in multi-tenant
   projects like Mimir loading a config for one tenant would reset
   the metrics for all tenants. This is also the reason the metrics
   are counters and not gauges.

2. Since the metrics are counters, it is difficult to create
   meaningful dashboards for Alertmanager as, unlike in Mimir,
   configurations are not reloaded at fixed intervals, and as such,
   operators cannot use rate to track configuration changes
   over time.

In Alertmanager, there are much better tools available to validate
that an Alertmanager configuration is compatible with the UTF-8
parser, including both the existing logging from Alertmanager
server and amtool check-config.

In other projects like Mimir, we can track configurations for
individual tenants using log aggregation and storage systems
such as Loki. This gives operators far more information than
what is possible with the metrics, including the timestamp,
input and ID of tenant configurations that are incompatible
or have disagreement.

Signed-off-by: George Robinson <george.robinson@grafana.com>
Signed-off-by: Gokhan Sari <gokhan@sari.me>

Fix the typo

Revert changes in unintended files
SuperQ added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 16, 2024
@SuperQ
Release v0.28.0-rc.0
9c7cd13 
* [CHANGE] Deprecate and remove api/v1/ #2970
* [CHANGE] Remove unused feature flags #3676
* [CHANGE] Newlines in smtp password file are now ignored #3681
* [CHANGE] Change compat metrics to counters #3686
* [CHANGE] Do not register compat metrics in amtool #3713
* [CHANGE] Remove metrics from compat package #3714
* [CHANGE] Mark muted alerts #3793
* [FEATURE] Add metric for inhibit rules #3681
* [FEATURE] Support UTF-8 label matchers #3453, #3507, #3523, #3483, #3567, #3568, #3569, #3571, #3595, #3604, #3619, #3658, #3659, #3662, #3668, 3572
* [FEATURE] Add counter to track alerts dropped outside of time_intervals #3565
* [FEATURE] Add date and tz functions to templates #3812
* [FEATURE] Add limits for silences #3852
* [FEATURE] Add time helpers for templates #3863
* [FEATURE] Add auto GOMAXPROCS #3837
* [FEATURE] Add auto GOMEMLIMIT #3895
* [FEATURE] Add Jira receiver integration #3590
* [ENHANCEMENT] Add the receiver name to notification metrics #3045
* [ENHANCEMENT] Add the route ID to uuid #3372
* [ENHANCEMENT] Add duration to the notify success message #3559
* [ENHANCEMENT] Implement webhook_url_file for discord and msteams #3555
* [ENHANCEMENT] Add debug logs for muted alerts #3558
* [ENHANCEMENT] API: Allow the Silences API to use their own 400 response #3610
* [ENHANCEMENT] Add summary to msteams notification #3616
* [ENHANCEMENT] Add context reasons to notifications failed counter #3631
* [ENHANCEMENT] Add optional native histogram support to latency metrics #3737
* [ENHANCEMENT] Enable setting ThreadId for Telegram notifications #3638
* [ENHANCEMENT] Allow webex roomID from template #3801
* [BUGFIX] Add missing integrations to notify metrics #3480
* [BUGFIX] Add missing ttl in pushhover #3474
* [BUGFIX] Fix scheme required for webhook url in amtool #3409
* [BUGFIX] Remove duplicate integration from metrics #3516
* [BUGFIX] Reflect Discord's max length message limits #3597
* [BUGFIX] Fix nil error in warn logs about incompatible matchers #3683
* [BUGFIX] Fix a small number of inconsistencies in compat package logging #3718
* [BUGFIX] Fix log line in featurecontrol #3719
* [BUGFIX] Fix panic in acceptance tests #3592
* [BUGFIX] Fix flaky test TestClusterJoinAndReconnect/TestTLSConnection #3722
* [BUGFIX] Fix crash on errors when url_file is used #3800
* [BUGFIX] Fix race condition in dispatch.go #3826
* [BUGFIX] Fix race conditions in the memory alerts store #3648
* [BUGFIX] Hide config.SecretURL when the URL is incorrect. #3887
* [BUGFIX] Fix invalid silence causes incomplete updates #3898
* [BUGFIX] Fix leaking of Silences matcherCache entries #3930
* [BUGFIX] Close SMTP submission correctly to handle errors #4006

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