Deprecate Alerts for Managed Prometheus
Proposal
%13.11
- Add deprecation notice in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/operations/metrics/alerts.html#managed-prometheus-instances
"%13.12"
- Add banner on top of Metrics page to alert users of deprecation of alerts if they are currently on Managed Prometheus. Issue: #328774
- Update runbooks docs for externally managed prometheus.
- Remove Alert setup menu (click on ellipsis on each menu)
- Remove display of existing alerts from UI (See Existing alert ui)
- Drop the processing of the managed ones in the
NotifyService. - Remove the deprecation notice on the metrics dashboard when the above is complete
Motivation
Managed Prometheus is deprecated since 13.7 and will be removed in GitLab 14.0 (&4280)
Questions
| Question | Answer | Follow-Up Issue |
|---|---|---|
| How many users will be impacted by the deprecation? | ||
| The deprecation of alerts in one milestone seems abrupt for users who depend on this? How do we notify users that this is happening? | ||
| Should we fully remove the alert/runbook features if we plan to add functionality back later? Could we change the underlying logic instead of deprecating everything? | ||
| Does the feature have to be fully deprecated in %14.0 or do we have any additional time? 2 milestones? | ||
| Will existing alerts be migrated? Since we’re not removing the clusters the alerts on prometheus will still be processed correctly on GitLab if we don’t remove the data. |
References
Existing alert UI
