Alert rules
The OpenShift 4 monitoring stack brings a plethora of alert rules. At its core, those rules come from kube-prometheus. Those rules aren’t without flaws and somethimes need tweaking. This stands in conflict with Support considerations for monitoring. Monitoring is a key component for OpenShift 4. Altering it beyond what’s supported, has the potential to affect a cluster’s stability.
This component addresses this by creating its own set of alert rules.
Those alert rules are a duplicate of the onces brought by OpenShift 4 with the alert names prefixed with SYN_
.
This stands in violation of "Creating additional […] PrometheusRule
objects in the openshift-*
[…] projects" from Support considerations for monitoring.
However, the authors of this components are confident that this won’t negatively impact the cluster.