Getting the epoch ms of triggered alert

[Dudi Cohen]

Hi,

I want to include a link to a Grafana dashboard within a Prometheus alert rule.

The time of the alert should be added as a query parameter in the dashboard URL so that the link leads you to the time when the alert was triggered.

According to the Grafana docs the time query needs to be in epoch ms: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/dashboards/manage-dashboard-links/#controlling-time-range-using-the-url

Alertmanager has a `StartsAt` function which gives the current time: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/notifications/#alert

Is there a way to convert this time output to epoch ms so I can use it within the Grafana dashboard URL?

Thanks

[David Leadbeater]

Hi,

It's not pretty but you can use: {{ .StartsAt.Unix }}000

There's various other alternatives in the comments on
https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/issues/1188

David

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[Dudi Cohen]

That did the trick, thanks a lot!