This topic describes the main alerting features of Simple Log Service.
Category | Subcategory | Feature | Description |
Alerting and monitoring | Basic features | Query and analyze logs | Use the query syntax of Simple Log Service and standard SQL-92 syntax to query and analyze logs. For more information, see Basic syntax. |
Query and analyze metrics | Analyze metric data using standard SQL-92 syntax and Prometheus Query Language (PromQL). For more information, see Syntax for querying and analyzing metric data. | ||
Machine learning | Perform machine learning operations using AIOps algorithms such as prediction, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis. For more information, see Machine learning syntax. | ||
Collaborative Monitoring | Associated monitoring for multiple Logstores or Metricstores | Perform associated monitoring on multiple Logstores or Metricstores using SQL JOIN syntax or set operations. | |
Associated monitoring for Logstores and Metricstores | Perform associated monitoring on Logstores and Metricstores using SQL JOIN syntax or set operations. | ||
Cross-project associated monitoring | Perform cross-project associated monitoring using set operations. | ||
Cross-region associated monitoring | Perform cross-region associated monitoring using set operations. | ||
Associated monitoring across Alibaba Cloud accounts | Perform associated monitoring across Alibaba Cloud accounts using set operations. | ||
Blacklist and whitelist monitoring | You can use resource data for blacklist and whitelist monitoring. | ||
Monitoring rule orchestration | Set no-data alerts | No-data alerts are supported. | |
Set alert severity | Configure alert severities in static or dynamic mode. | ||
Set labels and annotations | Configure custom labels and annotations. Set an annotation value to a variable. | ||
Evaluation by group | Group query and analysis results. | ||
Alert recovery | You can receive recovery notifications. | ||
Set a threshold for continuous triggers | Set a threshold for continuous triggers to suppress alerts. | ||
Shut down a monitoring job | Pause or permanently shut down a monitoring job. When a job is paused, you can set a time for it to automatically resume. | ||
Alert management | Alert denoising | Alert deduplication | Remove duplicate alerts or delay sending notifications for the same alert within a time window. For more information, see Deduplicate alerts based on alert fingerprints. |
Group and merge alerts | Use a merge policy to combine alerts with the same properties into a single alert notification. For more information, see Merge alerts by group. | ||
Alert silencing | Create a silence policy. During the silence period, alerts that meet the specified conditions do not trigger notifications. | ||
Notification management system | Action policy | Dynamic dispatch of notification channels | Dynamically dispatch alert notifications to users, user groups, or on-call groups in specific notification channels as needed. For more information, see Action policies. |
Notification recipient | User | Specify individual users. For more information, see Create users and user groups. | |
User group | A user group contains multiple users. For more information, see Create users and user groups. | ||
On-call group | Create on-call groups for users and user groups. Schedule rotating on-call shifts based on cycles, work hours, and other factors. For more information, see Create an on-call group. | ||
Channel calendar | Holiday awareness | Automatically identify holidays and adjust notification methods during holiday periods. | |
On-call schedule | Rotation | Automatically create rotating shift schedules for multiple users and user groups based on a specified cycle. | |
Substitute shift | Assign temporary employees to cover shifts for a specific period. | ||
Holiday awareness | Automatically adjust rotating shifts or substitute arrangements during holidays. | ||
Independent calendar | Configure a separate calendar for an on-call group and reset it as needed. | ||
Notification channel | Text message | Send alert content by text message. | |
Voice call | Send alert content by voice call. | ||
Send alert content by email. | |||
DingTalk notification | Send alert content using a DingTalk chatbot. | ||
Webhook notification | Send alert notifications to a custom webhook URL using HTTP or HTTPS calls. Use webhooks to extend notification channels to services such as WeCom, Lark, and Slack. | ||
Message Center | Send alert content using Alibaba Cloud Message Center. | ||
Alert analysis | Global Alert Center | Report on execution records of alert monitoring rules | View reports on the execution records of alert monitoring rules to troubleshoot errors efficiently. |
Alert Rule Center | The Alert Rule Center dashboard shows the overall execution status of alert rules and the status of triggered alerts. | ||
Alert Pipeline Center | The Alert Pipeline Center dashboard displays the entire pipeline for an alert, from generation by an alert monitoring rule, through the alert management system, to the notification management system. | ||
Troubleshooting Center | The Troubleshooting Center shows errors that occur at each stage, including the alerting and monitoring system, alert management system, and notification management system, to help you troubleshoot efficiently. | ||
Centralized storage | Centralized storage for alerts lets you view received, processed, and sent alerts and their related logs. After you complete the alert initialization, Simple Log Service automatically creates a project named sls-alert-Alibaba Cloud account ID-Region and a Logstore named internal-alert-center-log in your selected region to store alerts. |