Notifiers and alerts are two features that work together to inform you of events in the Rancher system.

are services that inform you of alert events. You can configure notifiers to send alert notifications to staff best suited to take corrective action. Notifications can be sent with Slack, email, PagerDuty, WeChat, and webhooks.

Logging is helpful because it allows you to:

  • Look for trends in your environment
  • Save your logs to a safe location outside of your cluster
  • More easily debugg and troubleshoot problems

Rancher can integrate with Elasticsearch, splunk, kafka, syslog, and fluentd.

Available as of v2.2.0

Using Rancher, you can monitor the state and processes of your cluster nodes, Kubernetes components, and software deployments through integration with Prometheus, a leading open-source monitoring solution. For details, refer to the