LXer: AlertManager and Prometheus Complete Setup on Linux

LXer · 08-23-2019, 06:00 AM

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When using modern monitoring solutions, we often want to be alerted when something goes wrong in our infrastructure. We may want to receive an email if one of our hosts goes down. Or we may want to receive a message on our team Slack if HTTPS certificates are about to expire for example. In your monitoring infrastructure, setting up custom alerts is crucial. In this tutorial, we are going to take a special look at the AlertManager with Prometheus.

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greencedar · 08-23-2019, 06:14 AM

The following initial step must be accomplished beforehand as described by a link, with a tutorial, within the article:

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The complete Prometheus and Grafana installation and configuration was already covered in one of our previous articles.

If you followed carefully this tutorial, you should now have Prometheus configured behind a secure reverse proxy (NGINX in this case).

The authentication is also done on the reverse proxy side.

As a reference, the Prometheus Web UI was accessed using the following URL : https://localhost:1234.

When you are done, you can go to the next section.