Hi I realize alert conditions in a Promertheus ecosystem should be triggered from a prometheus instance itself although there is the "amtool alert add" command that can be used to manually trigger an alert. Is this something which is commonly used in production use-cases? I can see a benefit to using this command as I could still allow users to trigger alerts in a standardized way, but without having to have specific pre-defined alerting conditions. There may also be situations where there is no metric collected but only an alert to be triggered in the situation a specific event occurs.
>From my understanding, when prometheus fires an alert, it will send the payload to all instances of alert manager with in the cluster and then they will handle which instance will actually route the alert to the final destination (e.g.: Victorops, email, webook, etc). If this is in fact correct, does this mean that amtool should also send the alert to all alertmanager instances within the cluster? I appreciate any clarification you can provide me with. Thanks -- 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/5ac8b766-afb3-428c-afd8-68b439fdd591n%40googlegroups.com.
