From 19d2bd565db2c23ad98c9264431075feff9df0ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Berthe <dev@samuel-berthe.fr>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 01:46:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: adding instruction for recording rules

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 alertmanager.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

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 {% endraw %}
 {% endhighlight %}
 
+## Reduce Prometheus server load
+
+For expansive or frequent PromQL queries, Prometheus allows to precompute rules.
+
+{% highlight yaml %}
+{% raw %}
+groups:
+
+  # first define the recording rule
+  - name: ExampleRecordingGroup
+    rules:
+    - record: job:rabbitmq_queue_messages_delivered_total:rate:5m
+      expr: rate(rabbitmq_queue_messages_delivered_total[5m])
+
+  # then use it in alerts
+  - name: ExampleAlertingGroup
+    rules:
+    - alert: ExampleRabbitmqLowMessageDelivery
+      expr: sum(job:rabbitmq_queue_messages_delivered_total:rate:5m) < 10
+      for: 2m
+      labels:
+        severity: critical
+      annotations:
+        summary: "Low delivery rate in Rabbitmq queues"
+{% endraw %}
+{% endhighlight %}
+
 ## Troubleshooting
 
 If the notification takes too much time to be triggered, check the following delays: