This is a quick knowledge sharing post before it gets out of my head :) I’m sure many (if not most) of you use Alertmanager as the go-to alerting system with Prometheus I really like the simplicity of Alertmanager’s configuration file and how nicely you can plug it into your configuration generation. The deployment pattern, however, is always a confusion for new adopters. I am going to try to solve some of that confusion in this post. ...
What is Prometheus If you’re an engineer working with Cloud technologies, chances are that you’ve already heard of Prometheus Prometheus is an Open Source monitoring tool. Its development started at SoundCloud and it has now evolved into being a go-to choice for metrics collection. I often relate its rise in popularity to its simple, gitops friendly configuration management, simple setup and modularity. Prometheus does a few things and does it well. While doing this, it does have some nice modularity as you can mix and match it with other tooling such as Grafana and Alertmanager. ...