Alerts

In addition to defining alert handler in TICKscript Kapacitor supports an alert system that follows a publish subscribe design pattern. Alerts are published to a topic and handlers subscribe to a topic.

Topics

An alert topic is simply a namespace where alerts are grouped. When an alert event fires it is assigned to a topic. Multiple handlers can be defined on a topic and all handlers process each alert event for the topic.

Handlers

A handler takes action on incoming alert events for a specific topic. Each handler operates on exactly one topic.

A handler definition has a few properties:

• ID - The unique ID of the handler.
• Kind - The kind of handler, see handlers for a list of available kinds.
• Match - A lambda expression to filter matching alerts. By default all alerts match, see matching for details on the match expression.
• Options - A map of values, differs by kind.

Example

See the Using Alert Topics example for a walk through defining and using alert topics.