1、概述

Skywalking发送告警的基本原理是每隔一段时间轮询skywalking-oap收集到的链路追踪的数据,再根据所配置的告警规则(如服务响应时间、服务响应时间百分比)等,如果达到阈值则发送响应的告警信息。 发送告警信息是以线程池异步的方式调用webhook接口完成的,具体的webhook接口可以由使用者自行定义,从而可以在指定的webhook接口中自行编写各种告警方式,比如钉钉告警、邮件告警等等。告警的信息也可以在RocketBotui中查看到。

目前对应我前面文章中部署的8.4.0版本支持的告警接口如下:

  • 普通webhook
  • gRPCHook
  • Slack Chat Hook
  • WeChat Hook(微信告警)
  • Dingtalk Hook(钉钉告警)
  • Feishu Hook(飞书告警)

2、告警规则

2.1 默认告警规则

Skywalking中,告警规则称为rule,默认安装的Skywalking oap server组件中包含了告警规则的配置文件,位于安装目录下config文件夹下alarm-settings.yml文件中,在容器中运行的也是一样的

# kubectl -n monitoring exec -it skywalking-oap-57d7f454f5-w4k4j -- bash
bash-5.0# pwd
/skywalking       
bash-5.0# cat config/alarm-settings.yml

以下是默认的告警规则配置文件内容

rules:
  # Rule unique name, must be ended with `_rule`.
  service_resp_time_rule:
    metrics-name: service_resp_time
    op: ">"
    threshold: 1000
    period: 10
    count: 3
    silence-period: 5
    message: Response time of service {name} is more than 1000ms in 3 minutes of last 10 minutes.
  service_sla_rule:
    # Metrics value need to be long, double or int
    metrics-name: service_sla
    op: "<"
    threshold: 8000
    # The length of time to evaluate the metrics
    period: 10
    # How many times after the metrics match the condition, will trigger alarm
    count: 2
    # How many times of checks, the alarm keeps silence after alarm triggered, default as same as period.
    silence-period: 3
    message: Successful rate of service {name} is lower than 80% in 2 minutes of last 10 minutes
  service_resp_time_percentile_rule:
    # Metrics value need to be long, double or int
    metrics-name: service_percentile
    op: ">"
    threshold: 1000,1000,1000,1000,1000
    period: 10
    count: 3
    silence-period: 5
    message: Percentile response time of service {name} alarm in 3 minutes of last 10 minutes, due to more than one condition of p50 > 1000, p75 > 1000, p90 > 1000, p95 > 1000, p99 > 1000
  service_instance_resp_time_rule:
    metrics-name: service_instance_resp_time
    op: ">"
    threshold: 1000
    period: 10
    count: 2
    silence-period: 5
    message: Response time of service instance {name} is more than 1000ms in 2 minutes of last 10 minutes
  database_access_resp_time_rule:
    metrics-name: database_access_resp_time
    threshold: 1000
    op: ">"
    period: 10
    count: 2
    message: Response time of database access {name} is more than 1000ms in 2 minutes of last 10 minutes
  endpoint_relation_resp_time_rule:
    metrics-name: endpoint_relation_resp_time
    threshold: 1000
    op: ">"
    period: 10
    count: 2
    message: Response time of endpoint relation {name} is more than 1000ms in 2 minutes of last 10 minutes
#  Active endpoint related metrics alarm will cost more memory than service and service instance metrics alarm.
#  Because the number of endpoint is much more than service and instance.
#
#  endpoint_avg_rule:
#    metrics-name: endpoint_avg
#    op: ">"
#    threshold: 1000
#    period: 10
#    count: 2
#    silence-period: 5
#    message: Response time of endpoint {name} is more than 1000ms in 2 minutes of last 10 minutes

webhooks:
#  - http://127.0.0.1/notify/
#  - http://127.0.0.1/go-wechat/

2.2 告警规则详解

下面取默认的告警规则中的一条进行分析

rules:
  # Rule unique name, must be ended with `_rule`.
  service_resp_time_rule:
    metrics-name: service_resp_time
    op: ">"
    threshold: 1000
    period: 10
    count: 3
    silence-period: 5
    message: Response time of service {name} is more than 1000ms in 3 minutes of last 10 minutes.

首先提示声明了告警规则名称应该具有唯一性,且必须以 _rule 结尾,这里是service_resp_time_rule(服务响应时间)

  • metrics-name:告警指标,指标度量值为longdoubleint类型

  • op:度量值和阈值的比较方式,这里是大于

  • threshold:阈值,这里是1000,毫秒为单位

  • period:评估度量标准的时间长度,也就是告警检查周期,分钟为单位

  • count:累计达到多少次告警值后触发告警

  • silence-period:忽略相同告警信息的周期,默认与告警检查周期一致。简单来说,就是在触发告警时开始计时N,在N+period时间内保持沉默silence不会再次触发告警,这和alertmanager的告警抑制类似

  • message:告警消息主体,通过变量在发送消息时进行自动替换

除此之外,还有以下可选(高级)规则配置:

  • 排除或包含服务配置,默认匹配此指标中的所有服务

    ...
      service_percent_rule:
        metrics-name: service_percent
        include-names:
          - service_a
          - service_b
        exclude-names:
          - service_c
    ...
    
  • 多种值情况的指标阈值,例如P50、P75、P90、P95、P99的阈值,主要表示样本的分布及其数量,例如P50表示取值周期内有50%的响应都大于1000ms,这和prometheus聚合指标quantile是一样的,如果同时写表示都满足时触发

    例如下面的规则表示在过去10分钟内,由于p50 > 1000、p75 > 1000、p90 > 1000、p95 > 1000、p99 > 1000多个条件,服务累计3次的响应时间百分比都大于1000ms,触发告警

    ...
      service_resp_time_percentile_rule:
        # Metrics value need to be long, double or int
        metrics-name: service_percentile
        op: ">"
        threshold: 1000,1000,1000,1000,1000
        period: 10
        count: 3
        silence-period: 5
        message: Percentile response time of service {name} alarm in 3 minutes of last 10 minutes, due to more than one condition of p50 > 1000, p75 > 1000, p90 > 1000, p95 > 1000, p99 > 1000
    
  • 复合规则composite-rules,针对相同实体级别而言的规则,例如服务级别的警报规则,同时满足指定的多个规则时触发

    rules:
      endpoint_percent_rule:
        # Metrics value need to be long, double or int
        metrics-name: endpoint_percent
    ...
        # Specify if the rule can send notification or just as an condition of composite rule 仅作为复合规则的条件
        only-as-condition: false
      service_percent_rule:
        metrics-name: service_percent
    ...
        only-as-condition: false
      service_resp_time_percentile_rule:
        # Metrics value need to be long, double or int
        metrics-name: service_percentile
    ...
        only-as-condition: false
      meter_service_status_code_rule:
        metrics-name: meter_status_code
    ...
        only-as-condition: false
    composite-rules:
      comp_rule:
        # Must satisfied percent rule and resp time rule 
        expression: service_percent_rule && service_resp_time_percentile_rule
        message: Service {name} successful rate is less than 80% and P50 of response time is over 1000ms # 服务成功率小于80%,响应时间大于1000ms
    

到这里,就能分析出上面列出的所有默认告警规则的含义,依次为:

1 最近3分钟内服务平均响应时间超过1秒
2 最近2分钟内服务成功率低于80%
3 最近3分钟的服务响应时间百分比超过1秒
4 最近2分钟内服务实例的平均响应时间超过1秒
5 最近2分钟内数据库访问的平均响应时间超过1秒
6 最近2分钟内端点平均响应时间超过1秒
7 过去2分钟内端点关系的平均响应时间超过1秒
  这条规则默认没有打开,并且提示:由于端点的数量远远多于服务和实例,活动端点相关度量告警将比服务和服务实例度量告警消耗更多内存

3、自定义告警规则

Skywalking的配置大部分内容是通过应用的application.yml及系统的环境变量设置的,同时也支持下面系统的动态配置来源

  • gRPC服务
  • Zookeeper
  • Etcd
  • Consul
  • Apollo
  • Nacos
  • k8s configmap

参考Skywalking动态配置说明,如果开启了动态配置,可以通过键alarm.default.alarm-settings覆盖掉默认配置文件alarm-settings.yml

本文记录的是基于k8shelm部署的Skywalking,因此可以通过k8s-configmap进行自定义配置的注入,最终在Skywalking配置文件中的实现如下,此文件中有很多变量,通过分析chart,发现已经写好逻辑会根据是否启用动态配置来自动注入所有变量,所以就无需在value.yaml中声明了

cluster:
  selector: ${SW_CLUSTER:standalone}
...
  kubernetes:
    namespace: ${SW_CLUSTER_K8S_NAMESPACE:default}
    labelSelector: ${SW_CLUSTER_K8S_LABEL:app=collector,release=skywalking}
    uidEnvName: ${SW_CLUSTER_K8S_UID:SKYWALKING_COLLECTOR_UID}
...
configuration:
  selector: ${SW_CONFIGURATION:k8s-configmap}
...
  k8s-configmap:
      # Sync period in seconds. Defaults to 60 seconds.
      period: ${SW_CONFIG_CONFIGMAP_PERIOD:60}
      # Which namespace is confiigmap deployed in.
      namespace: ${SW_CLUSTER_K8S_NAMESPACE:default}
      # Labelselector is used to locate specific configmap
      labelSelector: ${SW_CLUSTER_K8S_LABEL:app=collector,release=skywalking}

在自定义配置告警规则的同时加入webhook后端报警相关配置,configmap文件写法可以参考官方helm configmap示例

我这里只把默认的报警规则提示信息改成了中文报警信息,具体每条规则的参数没有变化,同时还加入了钉钉webhook配置,具体流程如下

修改chart包的value.yaml,开启动态配置

...
oap:
  name: oap
  dynamicConfigEnabled: true # 开启动态配置功能
...

修改chart包中templateoap-configmap.yaml,配置自定义的rule和钉钉webhook

...
data:
  alarm.default.alarm-settings: |-
    rules:
      # Rule unique name, must be ended with `_rule`.
      service_resp_time_rule:
        metrics-name: service_resp_time
        op: ">"
        threshold: 1000
        period: 10
        count: 3
        silence-period: 5
        message: 最近3分钟内服务 {name} 的平均响应时间超过1秒
      service_sla_rule:
        # Metrics value need to be long, double or int
        metrics-name: service_sla
        op: "<"
        threshold: 8000
        # The length of time to evaluate the metrics
        period: 10
        # How many times after the metrics match the condition, will trigger alarm
        count: 2
        # How many times of checks, the alarm keeps silence after alarm triggered, default as same as period.
        silence-period: 3
        message: 最近2分钟内服务 {name} 的成功率低于80%
      service_resp_time_percentile_rule:
        # Metrics value need to be long, double or int
        metrics-name: service_percentile
        op: ">"
        threshold: 1000,1000,1000,1000,1000
        period: 10
        count: 3
        silence-period: 5
        message: 最近3分钟的服务 {name} 的响应时间百分比超过1秒
      service_instance_resp_time_rule:
        metrics-name: service_instance_resp_time
        op: ">"
        threshold: 1000
        period: 10
        count: 2
        silence-period: 5
        message: 最近2分钟内服务实例 {name} 的平均响应时间超过1秒
      database_access_resp_time_rule:
        metrics-name: database_access_resp_time
        threshold: 1000
        op: ">"
        period: 10
        count: 2
        # message: Response time of database access {name} is more than 1000ms in 2 minutes of last 10 minutes
        message: 最近2分钟内数据库访问 {name} 的平均响应时间超过1秒
      endpoint_relation_resp_time_rule:
        metrics-name: endpoint_relation_resp_time
        threshold: 1000
        op: ">"
        period: 10
        count: 2
        message: 最近2分钟内端点 {name} 的平均响应时间超过1秒
    dingtalkHooks:
      textTemplate: |-
        {
          "msgtype": "text",
          "text": {
            "content": "SkyWalking 链路追踪告警: \n %s."
          }
        }
      webhooks:
        - url: https://oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send?access_token=<钉钉机器人token>
          secret: <钉钉机器人加签>

修改完成后,执行helm进行更新

# ls                                                                                
skywalking
# helm -n monitoring upgrade skywalking skywalking --values ./skywalking/values.yaml
# helm -n monitoring list                                                           
NAME            NAMESPACE       REVISION        UPDATED                                 STATUS          CHART                   APP VERSION
skywalking      monitoring      3               2021-03-22 13:35:36.779541 +0800 CST    deployed        skywalking-4.0.0
# helm -n monitoring history skywalking                                             
REVISION        UPDATED                         STATUS          CHART                   APP VERSION     DESCRIPTION                                                                              
1               Sun Mar 21 17:45:34 2021        superseded      skywalking-4.0.0                        Install complete                                                                         
2               Mon Mar 22 13:35:36 2021        deployed        skywalking-4.0.0                        Upgrade complete 

观察pod状态,直到正常

# kubectl -n monitoring get pods                               
NAME                              READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
elasticsearch-logging-0           1/1     Running     0          19h
elasticsearch-logging-1           1/1     Running     0          19h
elasticsearch-logging-2           1/1     Running     0          19h
skywalking-es-init-ktdcn          0/1     Completed   0          19h
skywalking-oap-7bbb775965-49895   1/1     Running     0          15s
skywalking-oap-7bbb775965-s89dz   1/1     Running     0          43s
skywalking-ui-698cdb4dbc-mjl2m    1/1     Running     0          19h

4、测试告警

为了测试告警功能,拉上业务研发在项目中简单写了个url地址,请求时会超时5s返回

然后利用浏览器或postman请求应用的/api/timeout进行测试

查看Skywalkingui界面,链路追踪

告警界面

到钉钉中查看报警消息

到这里,在Skywalking中配置报警就完成了 ~

附:在一次Skywalking线上分享会上记录的关于使用Skywalking定位问题的思路:

  • 纵览全局,Skywalking拓扑图
  • 监控告警,metric/tracing确定问题存在故障(根据metric做告警,根据tracing统计作比较)
  • 确定故障在哪,tracing调用关系,确定故障出现在哪个service或者endpoint
  • profile手段(skywalking新能力)或者常见传统性能定位方法,定位单节点问题所在(比如CPU、内存、io、网络 ——> 动态追踪采样 ——> 火焰图)基本可以解决99.9%的问题