From fbe66819c555e423078b5d339618a5b411698919 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Brazil Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 12:44:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update ALERTS docs for 2.0 staleness changes. (#4116) Signed-off-by: Brian Brazil --- docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md b/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md index fd7783e34..cc674a09b 100644 --- a/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md +++ b/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md @@ -86,9 +86,8 @@ label sets for which each defined alert is currently active. For pending and firing alerts, Prometheus also stores synthetic time series of the form `ALERTS{alertname="", alertstate="pending|firing", }`. The sample value is set to `1` as long as the alert is in the indicated active -(pending or firing) state, and a single `0` value gets written out when an alert -transitions from active to inactive state. Once inactive, the time series does -not get further updates. +(pending or firing) state, and the series is marked stale when this is no +longer the case. ### Sending alert notifications