May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
11h 36m
English
Imagine that you have a set of Prometheus instances using an Alertmanager cluster for alerting. For some reason, a network partition happens between these two services. Even though each Prometheus instance detects that it can no longer reach any of the Alertmanager instances, they will have no means to send notifications.
In this situation, no alerts about the issue will ever be sent:

The original concept of a dead man's switch refers to a mechanism that activates if it stops being triggered/pressed. This concept has been adopted in the software world ...
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