Create Kapacitor alert error - influxdb

Question

I get following error while creating an Kapacitor alert. Alert is created but not triggered.
ts=2018-08-21T15:01:05.329Z lvl=error msg="failed to create database" service=kapacitor task_master=main task=chronograf-v1-2004f027-091f-4af9-b5c8-a636ab28fcc8 node=influxdb_out8 err="retention policy conflicts with an existing policy" database=chronograf cluster=
Retention policy defined on influxdb database is defined as following.
show retention policies on chronograf
name duration shardGroupDuration replicaN default
---- -------- ------------------ -------- -------
autogen 1440h0m0s 168h0m0s 1 true
Tickscript used
var db = 'telemetrics'
var rp = 'two_months'
var measurement = 'system'
var groupBy = []
var whereFilter = lambda: ("host" == 'hostname.domain.xxxx')
var period = 1m
0s
var name = 'Redis Deadman'
var idVar = name + ':{{.Group}}'
var message = 'DEADMAN Alert REDIS.'
var idTag = 'alertID'
var levelTag = 'level'
var messageField = 'message'
var durationField = 'duration'
var outputDB = 'chronograf'
var outputRP = 'autogen'
var outputMeasurement = 'alerts'
var triggerType = 'deadman'
var threshold = 0.0
var data = stream
|from()
.database(db)
.retentionPolicy(rp)
.measurement(measurement)
.groupBy(groupBy)
.where(whereFilter)
var trigger = data
|deadman(threshold, period)
.stateChangesOnly()
.message(message)
.id(idVar)
.idTag(idTag)
.levelTag(levelTag)
.messageField(messageField)
.durationField(durationField)
.telegram()
.chatId('-232933442')
.log('/var/log/kapacitor/alerts.log')
trigger
|eval(lambda: "emitted")
.as('value')
.keep('value', messageField, durationField)
|eval(lambda: float("value"))
.as('value')
.keep()
|influxDBOut()
.create()
.database(outputDB)
.retentionPolicy(outputRP)
.measurement(outputMeasurement)
.tag('alertName', name)
.tag('triggerType', triggerType)
trigger
|httpOut('output')
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

The conflict i guess is that you are trying to create the same db.
"retention policy conflicts with an existing policy" you may need another rp.