Usage FAQΒΆ
Does Robusta have Builtin Alerts?ΒΆ
Yes. Robusta includes built-in alerts based on Prometheus and direct APIServer monitoring.
These alerts work out of the box without any configuration.
You can also write your own alerts.
What Events Can Robusta Listen to?ΒΆ
Robusta listens to:
Prometheus alerts
CrashLoopBackOffs
OOMKills
Job Failures
Other APIServer errors
Updates to Kubernetes Deployments and other resources
See the full list in All Triggers.
Want Robusta to respond to a custom event? Just send your event to Robusta by webhook.
What Actions Can Robusta Take?ΒΆ
Actions typically do one of the following:
Correlate existing observability data
Perform high-fidelity data collection (e.g. fetch heap dumps)
Remediate problems
Silence false alarms
See the full list in All Actions.
For examples, see What are Playbooks?.
Where Can Robusta Send Notifications?ΒΆ
In Robusta, destinations are called sinks. Here are some built-in sinks:
Chat apps: Slack, MSTeams, Discord, and Telegram
Incident management tools: PagerDuty and OpsGenie
Monitoring Platforms: DataDog and the Robusta SaaS
See the full list in Sinks Reference.