Alerting

Grafana is a great way to visualize and explore time-series data and has a first-class integration with TimescaleDB. Beyond data visualization, Grafana also provides alerting functionality to keep you notified of anomalies.

To get started, first download and install Grafana. Next, add a new that points to your TimescaleDB instance. This data source was built by TimescaleDB engineers, and it is designed to take advantage of the database’s time-series capabilities. From there, proceed to your dashboard and set up alert rules as described above.

Other Alerting Tools

TimescaleDB works with a variety of alerting tools within the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Users can use these tools to set up notifications about meaningful events that signify notable changes to the system.

• DataDog: get started here
• Zabbix: get started