Thank you. This was really helpful.

On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 4:35:32 PM UTC+5:30 [email protected] 
wrote:

>
> *"Alert relabeling ... has the same configuration format and actions as 
> target relabeling."*
> That configuration is shown immediately above: 
> https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#relabel_config
>
> You would need the "labeldrop" action.
>
>     alert_relabel_configs:
>       - regex: 'exported_namespace|exported_container'
>         action: labeldrop
>
> There is also "labelkeep" which drops all labels *except* the given 
> pattern.  However, you said "I only want the summary and description", but 
> those are not labels - they are annotations.  You REALLY REALLY don't want 
> to drop all labels.  For one thing, alertmanager uses the labels to 
> distinguish between one alert and another.  You really don't want alert B 
> going away to resolve alert A.
>
> It sounds to me that what you really want is to change the alertmanager 
> template to simplify the E-mails it sends out - NOT to remove the labels 
> sent from prometheus to alertmanager.
>
> Google "prometheus alertmanager templates" for lots of examples how to do 
> that.  Here's one hit:
> https://prometheus.io/blog/2016/03/03/custom-alertmanager-templates/
>
>

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