From 94c1335f1101c5f177536c76c925ff6c13ffc775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bergquist Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:17:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: move alerting above session --- docs/sources/tutorials/ha_setup.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/tutorials/ha_setup.md b/docs/sources/tutorials/ha_setup.md index 3464f124458..f20a9933126 100644 --- a/docs/sources/tutorials/ha_setup.md +++ b/docs/sources/tutorials/ha_setup.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Setting up Grafana for high availability is fairly simple. It comes down to two 2. Decide how to store session data.
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## Configure multiple servers to use the same database @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ First, you need to do is to setup MySQL or Postgres on another server and config You can find the configuration for doing that in the [[database]]({{< relref "configuration.md" >}}#database) section in the grafana config. Grafana will now persist all long term data in the database. How to configure the database for high availability is out of scope for this guide. We recommend finding an expert on for the database you're using. +## Alerting + +Currently alerting supports a limited form of high availability. Since v4.2.0, alert notifications are deduped when running multiple servers. This means all alerts are executed on every server but alert notifications are only sent once per alert. Grafana does not support load distribution between servers. + ## User sessions > Beginning with Grafana v6.0 and above the following only applies when using [Auth Proxy Authentication](/auth/auth-proxy/). @@ -43,6 +47,4 @@ If you use MySQL/Postgres for session storage, you first need a table to store t For Grafana itself it doesn't really matter if you store the session data on disk or database/redis/memcache. But we recommend using a database/redis/memcache since it makes it easier manage the grafana servers. -## Alerting -Currently alerting supports a limited form of high availability. Since v4.2.0, alert notifications are deduped when running multiple servers. This means all alerts are executed on every server but alert notifications are only sent once per alert. Grafana does not support distributing the alert rule execution between servers. That might be added in the future but right now prefer to keep it simple.