January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 56m
English
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Configuring alert receivers
A receiver is nothing more than a fancy way of referring to a collection of notification integrations that can send out alerts through various channels. Out of the box, the Alertmanager supports the following integrations:
- Email: Send out an email with alert details
- Slack/Hipchat/WeChat: Post alert details to a chat service
- PagerDuty/Opsgenie/VictorOps: Send a page notification to the SRE currently on call
- WebHooks: An escape hatch for implementing custom integrations
When the Alertmanager loads its configuration file, it looks for the list of receiver definitions under the top-level receivers key. Each receiver block must adhere to the following schema:
name: <string> email_configs: [ - <email_config>, ... ...