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$ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-homelab/alertmanager/alertmanager-pvc.ymlД¬reate a Deployment Configuration $ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-homelab/alertmanager/alertmanager-deployment.yml $ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-homelab/alertmanager/alertmanager-pv.ymlДЄllow Alertmanager to request persistent storage. We want to keep Alertmanager data and store it on a persistent volume. Receiver: 'slack_homelab' # default/fallback request handler Repeat_interval: 30s # how long to wait before re-sending a given alert that has already been sent in a notification Group_interval: 1h # how long to wait before sending an alert that has been added to a group for which there has already been a notification Group_wait: 30s # how long to wait to buffer alerts of the same group before sending a notification initially $ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-homelab/alertmanager/alertmanager-config-map.yml Add your Slack Webhook URL to the config map. Create a NamespaceД¬reate a Cluster Role and a Service Account $ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-homelab/alertmanager/alertmanager-cluster-role.ymlД¬onfigure Alertmanager to use Slack to send alerts.

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Note that this homelab project is under development, therefore please refer to GitHub for any source code changes.

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Install and Configure Alertmanager: Step by Step Clone the following repository: $ git clone TLDR Install and Configure Alertmanager: All in One GoД¬reate a monitoring namespace: $ kubectl create ns monitoringДЄdd your Slack Webhook URL to the config map.Д¬reate everything with a single command: $ kubectl apply -f kubernetes-homelab/alertmanager/ See here for more info: Download Files from GitHubД¬onfiguration files used in this article are hosted on GitHub. Add an Incoming Webhooks to your Slack workspace and copy the Webhook URL.

Alertmanager and Slack Integration with Incoming WebhooksДЄlertmanager uses Incoming Webhooks to post messages into Slack. The owner:group of the NFS folder is set to 65534:65534, because of Alertmanager deployment runAsUser: 65534. Our NFS server IP address is 10.11.1.20, and we have the following export configured for Alertmanager:

Note that NFS server configuration is not covered in this article, but the way we set it up can be found here. We are using our Kubernetes homelab to deploy Alertmanager.ДЄ working NFS server is required to create persistent volumes. We will also configure Alertmanager to send alert notifications to our Slack channel using Incoming Webhooks. We are going to deploy Alertmanager to handle alerts sent by our Prometheus server.