Alertmanager
Alert routing, deduplication, grouping, and silencing engine for Prometheus monitoring.
Why consider Alertmanager?
Alertmanager is the official alert routing and notification engine for Prometheus written in Go. It handles alerts sent by client applications like Prometheus server, deduplicating, grouping, and routing incidents to Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, webhooks, or email with silencing windows.
Learn Alertmanager by building
Practical setup notes, real use cases, and copy-ready examples in one focused guide.
In this guide2 sections
Overview of Alertmanager
Alertmanager groups related failure spikes into single aggregated team alerts to eliminate alert storms.
Docker Quickstart
docker run -d -p 9093:9093 --name alertmanager prom/alertmanager:latestAlertmanager is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
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