topic Re: Alert when K8S cluster is disconnected in Alerting

Alert on when K8S cluster is disconnected

Yosi_Neuman — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:28:54 GMT

Hi guys,

Our customer asked to get an alert when the API endpoint is not reachable.

Message can be seen on the K8S page but we didn't find a way to send an alert on it.

We added custom alert on missing K8S core metric but this is just a workaround.

Is there a way to send alerts on those messages OOTB?

Thanks for your inputs in advance

Yos

Re: Alert when K8S cluster is disconnected

dannemca — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:00:40 GMT

I was about to suggest the custom event for alerting with data missing enabled.

I am also interested in this too, let's see if is something already present and we need to enable it, or if we will need to create an Idea for it.

Re: Alert when K8S cluster is disconnected

techean — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 05:15:32 GMT

You can integrate with third party and check if there is a problem card generated that can be pulled using api and integrated with tool like SNOW or remedy tool. If not than custom alerts the way you are doing would be the only option. I need to replicate this and verify if the problem card is getting generated for such scenario.

Re: Alert when K8S cluster is disconnected

andre_f — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:15:17 GMT

As far as I know something is already on the roadmap, so that there should be an alert in such cases in the future. But I don't have any more details about this.

Re: Alert on when K8S cluster is disconnected

MaciejNeumann — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:03:16 GMT

Hello @Yosi_Neuman,

I just wanted to update this question with the new answer 🙂 According to this Documentation article:

Alert on common Kubernetes/OpenShift issues - Cluster alerts
It is now possible to set up an alert when Dynatrace API monitoring is not available.

You can also check this Feedback channel for more information:
Introducing easy alerting on common Kubernetes platform issues