[Metrics UI] Test Threshold Alert Condition

[sorantis]

As a DevOps engineer I want to be able to test alert conditions to see how many times the alert would’ve been triggered in the past.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/logs-metrics-ui (Team:logs-metrics-ui)

[Zacqary]

Not sure 12 results found in the past week is super clear. Maybe something like This alert would have fired 12 times in the past week across 1000 hosts?

[Zacqary]

@simianhacker I was able to implement this for Metric Threshold by having the Elasticsearch query retrieve an hour/week/day/month's worth of buckets, and then evaluate the alert on all of them. Inventory alerts, on the other hand, use the Snapshot API, and I'm not sure how to get that same kind of data from it in a similarly efficient manner. Any ideas?

[simianhacker]

@Zacqary I think you need a way to force the bucket size and the lookback? I had a branch that added that functionality (for adding charts to the inventory alerts) but I never submitted a PR for it. I can create a "draft" PR and we could look to see if that would satisfy your needs.