Observability in Email
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Learn about the logs, metrics, and alerts you should monitor for Email.
Monitoring
Private edition services expose metrics that can be scraped by Prometheus, to support monitoring operations and alerting.
- As described on Monitoring overview and approach, you can use a tool like Grafana to create dashboards that query the Prometheus metrics to visualize operational status.
- As described on Customizing Alertmanager configuration, you can configure Alertmanager to send notifications to notification providers such as PagerDuty, to notify you when an alert is triggered because a metric has exceeded a defined threshold.
The services expose a number of Genesys-defined and third-party metrics. The metrics that are defined in third-party software used by private edition services are available for you to use as long as the third-party provider still supports them. For descriptions of available Email metrics, see:
See also System metrics.
Enable monitoring
Service | CRD or annotations? | Port | Endpoint/Selector | Metrics update interval |
---|---|---|---|---|
Email Service | Both or either, depends on harvester | Default is 4024 (overridden by values) | /iwd-email/v3/metrics | 15 sec recommended, depends on harvester |
Configure metrics
Metrics are available when requested. No additional configuration is required.
Alerting
Private edition services define a number of alerts based on Prometheus metrics thresholds.
For descriptions of available Email alerts, see:
Configure alerts
Private edition services define a number of alerts by default (for Email, see the pages linked to above). No further configuration is required.
The alerts are defined as PrometheusRule objects in a prometheus-rule.yaml file in the Helm charts. As described above, Email does not support customizing the alerts or defining additional PrometheusRule objects to create alerts based on the service-provided metrics.
Logging
Logging is done to stdout.