Hands-On Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus

receiver

When a route is matched, it will invoke a receiver. A receiver contains notifiers, which we'll be exploring more deeply in the following sections. Basically, the receiver is a named configuration for the available integrations.

In our test environment, we can find an example of a receiver by using the Webhook notifier, as follows:

route:  receiver: operations...receivers:- name: 'operations'  webhook_configs:  - url: 'http://127.0.0.1:5001'...

The top-level route, also known as the catch-all or fallback route, will trigger the receiver named operations when incoming alerts aren't matched in other sub-routes. The operations receiver is configured using a single notifier, which is the Webhook notifier. This means that alerts that go to ...