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Open grobie opened this issue 9 years ago • 6 comments

When many alerts are open, it'd be very helpful to have the option to send a link to a specific alert. The old alertmanager supported this feature.

grobie avatar Jan 05 '16 23:01 grobie

@grobie Is this issue still valid? Not familiar with the way the old alertmanager used to work. Deep-linking isn't as easy as adding anchors with elm. :/ But one could use filters to have a link for a specific alert.

josedonizetti avatar Oct 06 '17 07:10 josedonizetti

The "old alertmanager" I was referring to was the very first alertmanager implementation. By now alertmanager UI has been rewritten 2 times already IIRC.

The "View in AlertManager" links currently generated by alertmanager filter on the receiver. Somehow highlighting the actual alert in that list would be nice, but I'd rather see all alerts open for that receiver then further filtering down that view.

If it's hard/impossible to deep link in elm, then I wouldn't bother too much here.

grobie avatar Oct 06 '17 07:10 grobie

It's not an elm thing, it's just a current design thing. I think we have the alert's fingerprint being exposed in the API, so it should be possible to link directly to an alert.

stuartnelson3 avatar Oct 06 '17 08:10 stuartnelson3

Also see #868 . There is a subtle difference between linking to an alert and linking to an alert group. The latter is what we need for proper links in alert notifications. Actual notifications are triggered by alert groups, not individual alerts directly.

beorn7 avatar Oct 06 '17 11:10 beorn7

Any updates on the issue? I am currently doing a custom alertmanager client and it would be great to have an opportunity to make a targeted silences via alert fingerprint.

SergeyKudrenko avatar May 21 '18 08:05 SergeyKudrenko

No updates, unfortunately

stuartnelson3 avatar May 21 '18 09:05 stuartnelson3