global
The global section gathers all the configuration options that are valid in other sections of the file, and act as default settings for those options. Since those parameters may be overridden in other sections, using them is a good way to keep the configuration file as clean as possible, avoiding repetition. Among all the available parameters in this section, most of them are related to credentials and tokens as notifiers. There's a noteworthy one called resolve_timeout. Prometheus will send alerts that are produced by triggering alerting rules on every evaluation interval, updating the EndTime field in JSON payload. When those get resolved, it notify Alertmanager of those resolutions by updating the EndTime. If, for some reason, an ...
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