Silence an alert with amtool

scoped time-boxed silence by matchers; expire early with amtool silence expire <id>

amtool silence add alertname=HighLatency cluster=prod --duration 2h --comment 'deploy in progress'
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alertmanager2 commands
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alertmanagermonitoringtroubleshootingobservability

More alertmanager commands

  • Test routing tree without firing
    amtool config routes test --config.file=alertmanager.yml severity=critical team=db

    shows which receiver a label set hits; validate routes before pushing config

all 2 alertmanager commands