Alertmanager Slack Example

[Tiago Katcipis]

Hi,

Im trying to use the new alertmanager but my old configuration stopped working with the following error:

time="2016-01-19T18:17:43Z" level=error msg="Loading configuration file failed: yaml: line 1: mapping values are not allowed in this context" file="/prometheus/cfg/alertmanager.conf" source="main.go:128"

The first obvious thing was the fact that the error involves YAML, the old config is a JSON. So I assume the configuration format changed considerably on the new alertmanager.

Checking out the docs it seems to be lacking a slack example:

https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/tree/master/doc/examples

Like there is on the current docs:

http://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/alertmanager

Is there any documentation (that I missed) that can help me on the migration process ?

I need the newest alert manager because I'm using the latest prometheus to use kubernetes integration, and the newest prometheus does not work with the old alertmanager API (it as giving a 404 error when the alert was triggered).

Best regards,

Tiago Katcipis

[Fabian Reinartz]

Quick answer from mobile (sorry, no direct links)

Check the readme in the repository for general information about the new Alertmanager and the beta announcements on this mailing list for links to the right documentation.

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[Tiago Katcipis]

Actually I was already hanging around the repository, using grep to look around for slack I can found only code (which is a form of documentation, of course :-). 

I searched both:

https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager

https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus

I just searched on:

https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus.github.io

And it only has the old documentation (using JSON).

It seems to be no example on how to use slack configuration on Alertmanager. I could just follow the code and build one, but I'm not sure if this feature is even working right now.

I just wanted to know the status of the slack integration so I could help with what is missing, it may be only documentation, or even some code.

Sorry if I'm missing something basic

[Nicholas Capo]

It looks like there is an example in this comment[1], I'll be trying it later today.

Nicholas

[1] https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/issues/203#issuecomment-173179471

[Fabian Reinartz]

Slack integration is fully functional.

As said yesterday, the announcement email has a link to initial documentation.

In particular configuration is documented here: https://github.com/prometheus/docs/blob/amdoc/content/docs/alerting/configuration.md

The README in the repository contains a basic example for other receiver integrations. Except for different field names, these are completely analogous to configuring Slack (see link above).

[Tiago Katcipis]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Fabian Reinartz <fab.re...@gmail.com> wrote:

Slack integration is fully functional.

Great

 

As said yesterday, the announcement email has a link to initial documentation.

Sorry, I missed the announcement email

 

In particular configuration is documented here: https://github.com/prometheus/docs/blob/amdoc/content/docs/alerting/configuration.md

I also failed on finding these docs, I thought documentation would be on https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus.github.io

 

The README in the repository contains a basic example for other receiver integrations. Except for different field names, these are completely analogous to configuring Slack (see link above).

Thanks Fabian and sorry for the noise, I will search more carefully on the future.

[Fabian Reinartz]

The documentation is written/updated in https://github.com/prometheus/docs. This is also the repository to file issues in for wrong or hard to understand documentation. From there static pages are generated that live in https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus.github.io, which is the website served under http://prometheus.io.

The documentation situation is a bit unlucky at the moment.

We discussed putting it on the web page already even though it is still beta, since the old Alertmanager is effectively retired.

Hope it will be easier then and things are working for you now.