Thankyou so much Brian for the details response...Its now clear to me :) I was only testing using routing tree editor.and found it didnt work https://prometheus.io/webtools/alerting/routing-tree-editor/
On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 12:57:12 AM UTC-7, Brian Candler wrote: > > You can make a nested tree of routes, which in effect gives you an "if ... > then ... else ..." capability. > > routes: > - ... something to do always > continue: true > - match: > severity: critical > routes: > - ... things to do when critical > - ... > - ... things to do when not critical > - ... > > Leaving out the "match" condition entirely makes a rule match always. > > Note that "continue: true" carries on to the next rule after a match, but > only at the same level. It will only fall out to the parent ruleset if no > matches occur. > > Or of course, you can explicitly match all non-critical severities e.g. > match_re: > severity: 'debug|informational|warning' > > As to why what you wrote before didn't work: > > 1. The supported regex syntax for go's re2 library is defined here: > https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax > > The (?!...) form is not implemented, due to the non-backtracking design of > re2. > > 2. I don't know why you thought "not_match_re" would work, but it's not > defined here: > https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/configuration/ > > I would have hoped that alertmanager would fail to start when given > unknown config tag. If it didn't, then that could be a bug. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-users/5d2a19f1-56d3-4838-be5c-2f5a0a5a12bc%40googlegroups.com.

