What is the Alert Manager alert rule for notifying about Docker container restarting?

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I'm trying to add an alert rule that would allow Alert Manager to notify me whenever a particular docker container restarts. Does such rule exist? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '18 at 13:10

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You can use this query to see the number of seconds that have passed since the container was started.

 time() - container_start_time_seconds

answered Oct 22 '18 at 13:10

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Sweet! Will try it! Thanks! – Matthew Oct 22 '18 at 13:18
tried this method but it just alerts on everything. I tried specifying the container name like so: time() - container_start_time_seconds{container_name}, but it didn't work for some reason. – Matthew Oct 24 '18 at 08:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 24 '18 at 10:48

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Ive managed to make it work with process_start_time_seconds{job='my_job'} expression

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What is the Alert Manager alert rule for notifying about Docker container restarting?

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