Needs example of cluster wide inhibition
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Description
The documentation here states that inhibition can be used to suppress the same alert coming from an entire cluster:
However, none of the examples I can find online show how this can be done easily in either of these places:
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the inhibition section at https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/alertmanager/#inhibition, then compare the existing examples in doc/examples/simple.yml and examples/ha/alertmanager.yml. Add a clear cluster-wide inhibition example in the relevant documentation or configuration example, and verify that it explains how the matching labels suppress alerts across the cluster.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- prometheus
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100