Chronograf not saving Alert Rule of Type: Deadman

[Bedasek]

I’d like to setup DNR (Data Not Received) alert for which I use Alert Type: Deadman. I hope that’s the proper type for this purpose.
Essentially I wanna be alerted when there is no new data in the db in the last 10 minutes.

So I do all as usual:

1. Build a query in Select a Time Series - see below on picture
2. Select Alert Type: Deadman and …missing for: 10m
3. Send Alert to log
4. Put a name of the Rule
5. Click Save Rule
6. Get Rule successfully updated! box
7. verify the rule in kapacitor - posted below.
8. refresh the webpage in Chronograf (or navigate in left pane Alerting -> Alert Rules -> select the actual Rule)
9. Select a Time Series and Rule Conditions are empty!!

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[martin@server ~]$ chronograf -v;service kapacitor version
2017/08/08 09:26:09 Chronograf 1.3.5.0 (git: 9e87035b7f9d8f1e78a77789d69ab4709a095f67)
Kapacitor 1.3.1 (git: master 3b5512f7276483326577907803167e4bb213c613)

[martin@server ~]$ kapacitor show chronograf-v1-e37216f4-b723-4c1a-9dda-8965fa4d2961
ID: chronograf-v1-e37216f4-b723-4c1a-9dda-8965fa4d2961
Error: 
Template: 
Type: stream
Status: enabled
Executing: true
Created: 08 Aug 17 07:31 UTC
Modified: 08 Aug 17 10:41 UTC
LastEnabled: 08 Aug 17 10:41 UTC
Databases Retention Policies: ["vUSP_CTS"."autogen"]
TICKscript:
var db = 'vUSP_CTS'

var rp = 'autogen'

var measurement = 'memUsage'

var groupBy = ['host']

var whereFilter = lambda: TRUE

var period = 10m

var name = 'DNR'

var idVar = name + ':{{.Group}}'

var message = '{{.Time}} DataNotReceived {{.Name}} '

var idTag = 'alertID'

var levelTag = 'level'

var messageField = 'message'

var durationField = 'duration'

var outputDB = 'chronograf'

var outputRP = 'autogen'

var outputMeasurement = 'alerts'

var triggerType = 'deadman'

var threshold = 0.0

var data = stream
    |from()
        .database(db)
        .retentionPolicy(rp)
        .measurement(measurement)
        .groupBy(groupBy)
        .where(whereFilter)

var trigger = data
    |deadman(threshold, period)
        .stateChangesOnly()
        .message(message)
        .id(idVar)
        .idTag(idTag)
        .levelTag(levelTag)
        .messageField(messageField)
        .durationField(durationField)
        .log('/tmp/DNR.log')

trigger
    |eval(lambda: "emitted")
        .as('value')
        .keep('value', messageField, durationField)
    |influxDBOut()
        .create()
        .database(outputDB)
        .retentionPolicy(outputRP)
        .measurement(outputMeasurement)
        .tag('alertName', name)
        .tag('triggerType', triggerType)

trigger
    |httpOut('output')

DOT:
digraph chronograf-v1-e37216f4-b723-4c1a-9dda-8965fa4d2961 {
graph [throughput="0.00 points/s"];

stream0 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" working_cardinality="0" ];
stream0 -> from1 [processed="0"];

from1 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" working_cardinality="0" ];
from1 -> noop3 [processed="0"];

noop3 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" working_cardinality="0" ];

stats2 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" working_cardinality="0" ];
stats2 -> derivative4 [processed="0"];

derivative4 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" working_cardinality="0" ];
derivative4 -> alert5 [processed="0"];

alert5 [alerts_triggered="0" avg_exec_time_ns="0s" crits_triggered="0" errors="0" infos_triggered="0" oks_triggered="0" warns_triggered="0" working_cardinality="0" ];
alert5 -> http_out8 [processed="0"];
alert5 -> eval6 [processed="0"];

http_out8 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" working_cardinality="0" ];

eval6 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" working_cardinality="0" ];
eval6 -> influxdb_out7 [processed="0"];

influxdb_out7 [avg_exec_time_ns="0s" errors="0" points_written="0" working_cardinality="0" write_errors="0" ];
}

Successfully saved:

[Bedasek]

After refresh:

[Dmitry_Nilsen]

Hi,
I have exactly same issue… did you find the solution?

[Bedasek]

No sir

So either we both do something wrong …or it’s a legit bug in Chronograf and we should report it as issue on github…

…and therefore I submitted one Chronograf not saving Alert Rule of Type: Deadman · Issue #1890 · influxdata/chronograf · GitHub