Guides

Task-shaped pages: pick the one that matches what you are trying to do.

The Tutorial is the guided tour through every part of Sonda. The rest of this section is organized by what you are testing: alert rules, ingest pipelines, network telemetry, real-data replay, or operational scale.

New to Sonda?

Start with the Tutorial -- a seven-page walkthrough of generators, encoders, sinks, log generation, scheduling, multi-scenario runs, and the Server API. Everything below assumes you have already done that, or you know what you are looking for.

Browse by goal

• Catalog & packs

  Pre-built scenarios you can run instantly, plus the building blocks that compose them. Start with Built-in Scenarios, then Dynamic Labels, Examples, and Metric Packs.

• Alert testing

  Triggering, resolving, and validating alert rules with the right metric shape. The overview maps each alert pattern to the right generator -- thresholds, resolution, correlation, cardinality, histograms, recording rules, and the full pipeline.

• Pipelines & scale

  Validating ingest changes, sizing backends, and end-to-end flow. Covers pipeline validation, synthetic monitoring, capacity planning, and E2E testing.

• Network telemetry

  Modeling network devices and exercising automation responses. Device telemetry covers routers, switches, and link cascades; automation testing covers remediation flows that react to those alerts.

• Importing real data

  Turning recorded series into reusable scenarios. CSV import detects patterns and generates portable YAML; Grafana CSV replay reproduces the original series bit-for-bit.

• Troubleshooting

  Diagnostics for connection refused, empty backends, schema mismatches, and the localhost trap.