Alerts not firing on daily check

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? 8.3.1 SLES

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    Hello Guys

I have many simple alerts in grafana 8 (still legacy alerting) running fine. But I fell into trouble with something that should be fairly simple.

I need to fire an alert when there is a difference between current and previous value (for any value in serie) above threshold. Data are put daily at night (time is only yyyy-mm-dd)

consider dataset ajnd threshold:
2021-01-11 ABC 123
2021-01-11 DEF 455
2021-01-12 ABC 100
2021-01-12 DEF 452

threshold 20

So the alert should be fired on ABC value in serie. Right after pulling it into DB.

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

Querry (mySQL):
SELECT
$__timeGroup(time,‘1h’, previous) as time,
location,
(ABS(LAG(DataMB,1,0) OVER (PARTITION BY location ORDER BY TIME) - DataMB))/(LAG(DataMB,1,0) OVER (PARTITION BY location ORDER BY TIME))*100 AS diffPerc
FROM dailyKPI
WHERE $__timeFilter(time) AND location IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY TIME, location

values are calculated correctly

Alert:

  • What happened?

Nothing

  • What did you expect to happen?

Send an alert at night right after importing data into DB

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

No

It is a puzzle for myself. Probably something easy is missing but I have no clue what could it be.

If I test the rule I get in querry result NULL for any of 25 hour datapoints. If I change querry to timegroup 24h still nulls.