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Overview

IncidentFox integrates with Prometheus for metrics queries, instant queries, and alert management. This includes support for Alertmanager for alert correlation.

Tools Available

Configuration

Basic Setup

With Alertmanager

Authentication

Prometheus supports several authentication methods:

Example Queries

PromQL Range Query

IncidentFox executes:

Check Firing Alerts

Correlate with Metrics

Use Cases

Anomaly Detection

IncidentFox uses Prometheus metrics for anomaly detection:
  1. Queries historical data for baseline
  2. Applies Z-score or Prophet-based detection
  3. Identifies deviations from normal behavior

Alert Correlation

When investigating incidents, IncidentFox:
  1. Fetches currently firing alerts from Alertmanager
  2. Correlates alert timing with incident timeline
  3. Identifies related alerts across services

Capacity Planning

Use the forecasting tools with Prometheus data:

Required Permissions

Troubleshooting

Connection Issues

Solutions:
  1. Verify the URL is correct and accessible
  2. Check authentication credentials
  3. Ensure network connectivity from IncidentFox

Query Timeouts

For large queries, increase the timeout:

Next Steps

Grafana

Query Prometheus via Grafana

Anomaly Detection

Use anomaly detection tools