Alerta Release 4.7

The Alerta monitoring tool was developed with the following aims in mind:

distributed and de-coupled so that it is SCALABLE
minimal CONFIGURATION that easily accepts alerts from any source
quick at-a-glance VISUALISATION with drill-down to detail

Related projects can be found on the Alerta Org Repo at https://github.com/alerta/.

Requirements

The only mandatory dependency is MongoDB. Everything else is optional.

MongoDB version 3.x

Optional

A messaging transport that supports AMQP is required if it is wanted to send notifications to alert subscribers. It is recommended to use RabbitMQ, but Redis and even MongoDB have been tested and shown to work.

RabbitMQ
Redis
MongoDB

Note: The default settings use MongoDB so that no additional configuration is required.

Installation

To install MongoDB on Debian/Ubuntu run::

$ sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
$ mongod

To install the Alerta server and client run::

$ pip install alerta-server
$ alertad

To install the web console run::

$ wget -O alerta-web.tgz https://github.com/alerta/angular-alerta-webui/tarball/master
$ tar zxvf alerta-web.tgz
$ cd alerta-angular-alerta-webui-*/app
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

>> browse to http://localhost:8000

Configuration

To configure the alertad server override the default settings using ~/.alertad.conf.

Documentation

More information on configuration and other aspects of alerta can be found at http://docs.alerta.io

Tests

To run the tests use::

$ ALERTA_SVR_CONF_FILE= nosetests tests/*

Cloud Deployment

Alerta can be deployed to the cloud easily using Heroku, AWS EC2 https://github.com/alerta/alerta-cloudformation or RedHat OpenShift https://github.com/alerta/openshift-api-alerta::

License

Alerta monitoring system and console
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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