Notifications

NVIDIA Minerva sends a notification when a view on the Anomalies, Incidents, or Trends page returns new events. Notifications go to the endpoints you choose, such as a Slack channel, an email list, or ServiceNow. The notification framework runs in the Platform Stack, as part of the Presentation layer described in Architecture.

How Notifications Work

• Views: each view decides which events trigger a notification, which endpoints receive it, and how duplicate notifications are grouped.

• Endpoints: the destinations, each with a unique name and an endpoint type.

• Endpoint types: settings shared by every endpoint of one type, the rate limiter and the templates.

• Templates: define the content of the notification for an endpoint type.

For setup steps, see Configure Notifications.

Events

A view can notify on raw events or on events that NVIDIA Minerva generates.

Raw Events

Raw events include syslog messages, JSON logs, and SNMP traps. For example, a view can notify on one SNMP trap type, such as coldStart, or on one log label, such as "Parity Error".

Generated Events

• ML anomalies on metrics or logs: for example, "GPU Temperature Anomalies" or "Rare Syslogs".

• Finite state machine (FSM) events: BGP and interface state changes, such as "Link Flaps".

• Auto-correlation events: events that NVIDIA Minerva groups with ML.

• Threshold events on metrics: notifications when a metric crosses a threshold you set. NVIDIA recommends ML-based metric anomalies instead, because they produce fewer false positives.

Deduplication and Rate Limiting

Deduplication dimensions group a view's notifications. Notifications with the same values for those dimensions share a dedupe key. The rate limiter of the endpoint type then limits how many notifications with the same dedupe key each endpoint receives within a time window. Notifications over the limit are dropped.

For example, a view that notifies on interface down events uses Device Name and Interface Name as its deduplication dimensions. If the endpoint type allows one notification per 24 hours, a link that keeps flapping sends one notification a day to each endpoint instead of one for every flap.

The rate limiter of the endpoint type applies only to views with deduplication dimensions.

Supported Endpoints

Last updated: October 29, 2026