Prometheus Alertmanager

Prometheus Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server.

• http://localhost:9093/
• Repo: https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager
• https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/alertmanager/
• Configuration: /etc/prometheus/alertmanager.yml

Features:

• Deduplicating
• Silencing and inhibition
• Grouping
• Routing to the correct receiver integration such as email, PagerDuty or OpsGenie.

• amtool cli tool is included with all releases of Alertmanager for interacting with the Alertmanager API

Installation

• Installation: apt install prometheus-alertmanager
• docker run --name alertmanager -d -p 127.0.0.1:9093:9093 quay.io/prometheus/alertmanager
• Binaries:
  • amtool
  • prometheus-alertmanager
• Configuration: /etc/prometheus/alertmanager.yml

Related terms

• /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
• Prometheus alertmanager changelog
• PagerDuty
• - alert
• alert:
• Prometheus PushGateway
• Alertmanager versions
• Karma
• helm install myprometheus prometheus-community/prometheus

See also

• Prometheus Alertmanager: amtool, alertmanager.yml, simple.yml, Karma, versions, Signl4.com, Zenduty
• Prometheus: Prometheus installation, 9090, storage, Prometheus exporters: Node exporter 9100, Blackbox exporter, Prometheus alertmanager (changelog), Prometheus versions, Prometheus Node exporter releases, promtool, amtool, tsdb, /etc/default/prometheus, /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml, journalctl -u prometheus, /etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter, PromQL, alert:, Prometheus Operator, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, PushGateway, Prometheus API, values.yml, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Cacti, monit, munin, RRDtool, Zabbix, Netdata, Nagios, Check MK, Icinga, Pingdom, OpsGenie and Datadog, Opsgenie, PRTG, Checkmk

https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/alertmanager/