Hi Santiago, On 08/02/2019 17:35, Santiago Vila wrote:
> File /usr/share/doc/prometheus-alertmanager/README.md.gz suggests doing this: > > amtool silence add alertname=Test_Alert > > but this is what I get: > > amtool: error: comment required by config I don't know how that is configured, but you just need to add a comment to the silence like '--comment="testing silences"' > Trying to see what's wrong, I tried using amtool 0.16.1, downloaded > from github: > > $ /tmp/amtool silence add alertname=Test_Alert > amtool: error: required flag --alertmanager.url not provided > > Ok, apparently it needs the url of the current alertmanager instance, > let's try this then: Yes, the debian binary comes with a sane default which is not present in upstream. > I would love to use the web UI, but it's gone: > > The Debian package of the alertmanager does not include a web > application. > > Is this a Debian-specific change? If yes, could we have the web UI back? > In my opinion, it was better than nothing. The problem is that upstream switched to Elm for generating the UI, and that would have required preparing and uploading dozens of new packages, and I did not have the resources for that. Somebody offered to write a script to download the pre-compiled UI and install it locally, but never happened. -- Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
