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VSPERF will have Alerting from the Monitoring component, and lacks alerting from the logs. As the next step, this project aims to use the same information - The logs - and create alerts than will be notified to VSPERF. The Trafficgenerators of the VSPERF will be the main consumers of these alerts.

Additional Information

Some Links:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/dashboard-create-new-dashboard.html
https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/practical-alerting/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q/preview

Tentative Process:

1. Learn about VSPERF
2. Install and run the OSS tools successfully.
3. Create sample Kibana Dashboard
4. Create sample Alert Rules.
5. Inspect the logs the tests have created
6. Build the Kibana dashboard to VSPERF's requirements & specifications
7. Create VSPERF specific alerts and send notifications.

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