How to read pushed data from victoriaMetrics using alertManager?

[Lei Wang]

I used VictoriaMetrics as backend storage for prometheus and configed alertmanager in prometheus.yml

alerting:

  alertmanagers:

  - static_configs:

    - targets: ["alertmanager:9093"]

remote_write:

  - url: http://victoriametrics:8428/api/v1/write

rule_files:

  - "rules.yml"

But in the rules.yml, the pushed metrics data is not accessible. 

I think it is because  victoriametrics doesn't support remote read API.

I there any way to read pushed data from victoriametrics when using alertmanager?

Thanks,

Lei

[Aliaksandr Valialkin]

cc'ing Roman, the maintainer of vmalert, for his input on this question.

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Aliaksandr Valialkin, CTO VictoriaMetrics

[Roman Khavronenko]

Hi Lei,

You're right, for having access to data written into remote storage it needs to support remote read API. Unfortunately, VM does not support remote read API for  reasons and there are no plans for implementing it.

I'd recommend to consider following options:

1. Set high enough retention in Prometheus so it will cover the time-range of your rules;

2. Start using vmalert - the tool for evaluating rules in Prometheus format against configured remote storage.