Alerts and Notifications

The alerts and notifications in TIBCO Control Plane improve user visibility into system events, failures, and performance thresholds, enhancing overall operational awareness and reducing response time to critical issues.

Note: Currently, Alerts and Notifications feature is available as developer preview.

Key Benefits

  • Improved monitoring: Improve your application monitoring by configuring alerts that help get to the root cause of the problem being reported.

  • Reduced operational overhead: By configuring alerts, you can get notified when an issue happens. This helps with faster and more focused troubleshooting. Instead of days and hours, issues can be identified in minutes.

Users have a centralized way to configure alerts and related notifications in TIBCO Control Plane. This helps with better visibility and management.

Terminology

  • Alert rule: Alert rule is the predefined test condition or logic.

  • Time range: The time range is the amount of historical data used to evaluate the alert rule.

  • Alert: When an alert rule condition computed over the time range is met, an alert is triggered.

  • Alert Receiver: Alert receiver is the configuration for a particular type of notification channel. It is a pre-requisite for configuring an alert notification.

  • Notification channel: Notification channel is the way in which the user is notified. For example: email. Currently only email notification type is supported.

Using Alerts in TIBCO Control Plane

Note: In this release, configuring alerts on only TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition and TIBCO Flogo apps is supported. Currently, alerts are only supported for Kubernetes data planes.

You can use the Control Plane UI to configure alerts. Some key points to remember:

  • When creating alerts, ensure that they are monitoring unique conditions. Creating duplicate alerts to monitor the same metric may impact system performance.

  • Alerts are at capability level in a data plane. By default, an alert will be applied on all the applications of the specified capability in a particular Data Plane.

  • You must have Data Plane manager permission to configure an alert at data plane level.

  • You must have capability provisioned in the particular data plane.

  • If no applications are deployed in the particular data plane, then the alert will be applied on all the applications which will be deployed in that particular capability in the data plane.

  • You need to create at least one alert receiver to configure an alert. If not created then the system prompts you to create one before proceeding.