Prometheus alertmanager

Alertmanager is the official service prometheus communicates with to issue alerts.

Documentation

repo	https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager
official docs	https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/configuration/
sample config	https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager#example

Locations

9093	default port that receives alerts

Install

pkg install alertmanager  # FreeBSD
pacman -S alertmanager    # Archlinux

You'll also need to enable/start the service.

Configuration

AlertManager

AlertManager can issue notifications using various methods.

• SMTP
• slack
• victorops
• wechat
• http

# /usr/local/etc/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml

Prometheus

# /usr/local/etc/prometheus.yml

alerting:
  alertmanagers:
    - static_configs:
      - targets: ['localhost:9093']

Usage

amtool check-config alertmanager.yml  # validate an alertmanager config