disable all alerts for a job

[mel]

How do I disable all alerts for a job without having to modify each alert rule and excluding the job?

[Brian Candler]

option 1: filter them out in alertmanager, with an extra routing rule that matches on the 'job' label and delivers to a null receiver.

option 1b: create a long-lived silence in alertmanager that matches on the 'job' label

option 2: drop them in alert_relabel_configs

But it may be clearer in the long term to modify the alerting expressions: if you change foo to foo{job!="bar"}, then the intention is obvious.

[mel]

ah, thank you for the suggestions