Salt

Salt

This section describes the alerts for the Salt Master and Salt Minion services.


SaltMasterServiceDown

Severity Critical
Summary The salt-master service on the {{ $labels.host }} node is down.
Raise condition procstat_running{process_name="salt-master"} == 0
Description Raises when Telegraf cannot find running salt-master processes on a node. The host label in the raised alert contains the host name of the affected node.
Troubleshooting
  • Verify the salt-master service status using systemctl status salt-master.
  • Inspect the salt-master service logs in /var/log/salt/master.
Tuning Not required

SaltMinionServiceDown

Severity Critical
Summary The salt-minion service on the {{ $labels.host }} node is down.
Raise condition procstat_running{process_name="salt-minion"} == 0
Description Raises when Telegraf cannot find running salt-minion processes on a node. The host label in the raised alert contains the host name of the affected node.
Troubleshooting
  • Verify the salt-minion service status using systemctl status salt-minion.
  • Inspect the salt-minion service logs in /var/log/salt/minion.
Tuning Not required