prometheus / prometheus/alertmanager
Feature Request - Support Grafana's log format
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Description
Looking at the alert's history is a known missing part. Grafana added support for using Loki to store and retrieve alert history using a log.
It would be possible to use the functionality for external alerts by supporting the configuration of the log format for alerts.
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the issue's references to Grafana alert history and Loki log storage, then trace how external alerts and alert configuration are handled in Alertmanager. Define the supported alert log format and configuration surface before implementing it, and verify that external alerts can use the configured format for storing and retrieving history.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, grafana
- Domain
- observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100