Observability in Intelligent Workload Distribution

Learn about the logs, metrics, and alerts you should monitor for Intelligent Workload Distribution.

Related documentation:

• How Intelligent Workload Distribution works
• Suite-level guide
• All services
• Intelligent Workload Distribution Release Notes

RSS:

• For private edition

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 Intelligent Workload Distribution metrics, see:

See also System metrics.

Enable monitoring

Service	CRD or annotations?	Port	Endpoint/Selector	Metrics update interval
	Both or either, depends on harvester	Default is 4024 (overridden by values)	/iwd/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.

Important

You can use general third-party functionality to create rules to trigger alerts based on metrics values you specify. Genesys does not provide support for custom alerts that you create in your environment.

For descriptions of available Intelligent Workload Distribution alerts, see:

Configure alerts

Private edition services define a number of alerts by default (for Intelligent Workload Distribution, 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, Intelligent Workload Distribution 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.