Alerting with AlertManager and Notifications
Configure AlertManager rules, notification channels, routing, and silencing that fire on real outages of the TaskFlow backend.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 17. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 17: Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus & Grafana (slug: monitoring-observability-prometheus-grafana)
Deploy the real TaskFlow backend, then build AlertManager alert rules, notification channels, routing, and silencing that fire on genuine outages of that application, not on synthetic conditions.
What You'll Learn
Write Prometheus alert rules that fire on real TaskFlow backend outages
Trigger an alert live by scaling the backend down and watch it fire
Configure a webhook notification channel and verify delivery end to end
Route alerts to different receivers using the backend's real labels
Silence and inhibit backend alerts during maintenance windows
Prerequisites
Lab 17.1 (Prometheus Metrics Collection) completed
Lab 17.2 (Grafana Dashboards) completed
Technologies Covered
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