# Normalized CPU Load Alert Template - Failed to parse rule template error

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**Category:** PMM 2.x\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/normalized-cpu-load-alert-template-failed-to-parse-rule-template-error/15932 "2022-06-01T16:16:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![csheridan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@csheridan](https://forums.percona.com/u/csheridan)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/normalized-cpu-load-alert-template-failed-to-parse-rule-template-error/15932/1 "2022-06-01T16:16:59Z")

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I am legitimately lost here. I went from Grafana v5.1.3 to v8.3.5. The older version was already in place when I started using it, and alerts were very simple. Most, if not all of my alerts were based on `node_load1`, and the usual threshold was 2.0. It would send an alert to Slack with the `node_name`, a brief description, and the value. The alert URL itself sent you to the panel of the server that was alerting. There was no template creation.

![Grafana_5_1_3_Slack_Alert_Example](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/2X/0/097bacd00f180b9250452f7942755b7cd37d765c.png)

Now, alerts look horrible since I’m unsure of how to properly create a template.

![Grafana_8_3_5_Slack_Alert_Example](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/2X/1/174565d57f0d97b396026a01cc4db8c3b7080fa1.png)

I decided to try and replicate this type of alert using Integrated Alerts, and the only option is `Node High CPU Load`, which is a percentage. I need the value of `node_load1`.

So, while in `Alert Rule Templates`, I’ve tried to add a very simplistic version just to get something going where I can expand on it later with more details. I am completely new to this.

I tried adding the following to a new Alert Rule Template:

```auto
---
templates:
  - name: CPU Normalized Load
    summary: Load Alert
    expr: |-
      node_load1{node_name=~".*admin.*", mode!="idle"} 
      > [[.threshold]]
    params:
      - name: threshold
        summary: The value of the normalized load
        type: float
        range: [0, 3]
        value: 2
    for: 5m
    severity: warning
    annotations:
      summary: Currently experiencing load issues. ({{ $labels.service_name }})
      description: |-
        Normalized load for {{ $labels.node_name }} is currently {{ $value }}

```

However, I get a “Failed to parse rule template” error.

How can I create a simple alert that gives me the node\_name, a description, a URL that takes me to the panel in question (in view mode), and that shows the value reported?

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**Author:** ![steve.hoffman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/steve.hoffman/32/66_2.png) [@steve.hoffman](https://forums.percona.com/u/steve.hoffman)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/normalized-cpu-load-alert-template-failed-to-parse-rule-template-error/15932/2 "2022-06-03T19:28:17Z")

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You were close…just missing the template version…try this:

```nohighlight
templates:
  - name: CPU Normalized Load
    version: 1
    summary: Load Alert
    expr: |-
      node_load1{node_name=~".*admin.*", mode!="idle"} 
      > [[.threshold]]
    params:
      - name: threshold
        summary: The value of the normalized load
        type: float
        range: [0, 3]
        value: 2
    for: 5m
    severity: warning
    annotations:
      summary: Currently experiencing load issues. ({{ $labels.service_name }})
      description: |-
        Normalized load for {{ $labels.node_name }} is currently {{ $value }}

```

I will create (if I can’t find one already) a jira ticket to show the error on the screen…I found it by:

`docker exec -it pmm-server bash` then `tail -f /srv/logs/pmm-managed.log` and submitting it…that resulted in the following error:

`failed to parse rule template form request: +unexpected version 0 component=management/ia/templates`

so even that wouldn’t have been super helpful without knowing but perhaps [this will help](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/using/alerting.html#template-format) someone else in the future creating a template.

Oh, and P.S. there _are_ improvements coming to alerting that will make it a bit easier to get rules created faster without being a YAML guru.

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**Author:** ![csheridan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@csheridan](https://forums.percona.com/u/csheridan)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/normalized-cpu-load-alert-template-failed-to-parse-rule-template-error/15932/3 "2022-11-04T16:27:42Z")

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You’re not going to believe this, but it’s been so long since I’ve come back to this, I can’t find the location of the template file now. Lol. I still accept your answer though!