Alertmanager: routes, grouping, inhibition and silences

18 min

Audience: beginner who has finished lesson 01 (you know how to read an alerting rule and follow pending → firing)
Duration: 45 to 60 min
Module: 6/7
Target skill: read the kit alertmanager.yml line by line, predict which notification goes out, when, and to whom (route, group_by, group_wait, group_interval, repeat_interval, sub-route, inhibit_rules), create and delete a silence via the API, and check all of that with /api/v2/alerts and /api/v2/status

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This lesson is part of the “Alerts: detect, route, don't wake up for nothing” module

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