Chronosphere Terraform provider

Terraform (opens in a new tab) is an open source, infrastructure-as-code software tool that provides a consistent workflow for managing hundreds of cloud services as a series of configuration files. Terraform relies on plugins called providers to interact with cloud providers, SaaS providers, and other APIs, including Chronosphere.

Getting started

To use the Chronosphere Terraform provider, you must install Terraform, and then you can install the provider and ensure you're authenticated for its use. For information, see Install the Chronosphere Terraform provider.

Supported resources

You can create the following resources on your Chronosphere instance with the Terraform provider:

• Dashboards
• Derived labels
• Derived metrics
• Drop rules
• Mapping rules
• Metric pools
• Monitors
• Notification policies
• Notifiers
• Recording rules
• Rollup rules
• Service accounts
• Teams
• Trace metrics rules

Prevent changes to managed resources

When you use Terraform to manage service account, notifier, dashboard, monitor, or drop rules resources, Terraform overrides any changes to these resources that users try to make elsewhere. To avoid confusion and configuration conflicts, Chronosphere prevents users from modifying such resources outside of Terraform.

When you attempt to modify a Terraform-managed resource in the Chronosphere app, Chronosphere displays a banner that explains the required use of Terraform. It also prevents you from saving any attempted changes from the user interface.

Chronosphere also prevents any attempts to modify these resources with Chronoctl or the Chronosphere API.

Validate plans with dry runs

When you run terraform plan to generate an execution plan, Chronosphere automatically tests configurations for resources by submitting them as dry runs. This helps you validate your Terraform manifests and better understand failures.

Disable dry run validation

To prevent the dry-run validation step, set the CHRONOSPHERE_DRY_RUN_VALIDATION_DISABLED environment variable to 1 when running terraform plan:

CHRONOSPHERE_DRY_RUN_VALIDATION_DISABLED=1 terraform plan

Manage v2 alerts with Terraform

Chronosphere supports alerts through monitors, which replaced deprecated v2 alerts. To manage monitors with Terraform, see the monitors documentation.

If you still use v2 alerts, you can create and manage them with Terraform. For example, this resource manages a Chronosphere alert that Terraform refers to as infra:

resource "chronosphere_alert" "infra" {
  # Human readable name of the alert.
  name = "Infra Example alert"

  # PromQL query to evaluate for the alert.
  expr = "up{}"

  # Interval at which to run the query.
  interval = "60s"

  # Arbitrary set of labels to assign to the alert.
  labels = {
    "priority" = "sev-1"
  }

  # Arbitrary set of annotations to include in alert notifications.
  annotations = {
    "runbook" = "http://go/default-runbook"
  }

  # Threshold for triggering the alert at a given severity level.
  threshold {
    # Severity of the threshold.
    severity = "warn"

    # Value to compare against the query result.
    # For EXISTS or NOT_EXISTS operators, value must be set to zero or may be omitted.
    value = 1.0

    # Operator to use when comparing the query result versus the threshold
    # value (one of GT, LT, LEQ, GEQ, EQ, NEQ, EXISTS, NOT_EXISTS).
    op = "LT"

    # Amount of time the query needs to fail the threshold check before
    # triggering the alert.
    sustain = "120s"
  }

  # Can define separate warn and critical thresholds for the alert.
  threshold {
    severity = "critical"
    value    = 1.0
    op       = "LT"
    sustain  = "300s"
  }

  # If schedule is specified, the alert is only evaluated during specific time ranges.
  # Otherwise the alert is always evaluated.
  schedule {
    timezone = "UTC"

    range {
      day   = "Monday"
      start = "07:00"
      end   = "10:10"
    }
  }
}