Monitoring

Creating silences

In order to create a silence, you'll need to login to your Grafana instance that is deployed as part of Atmosphere as an admin user.

  1. Click on the hamburger menu in the top left corner and select "Alerting" and then "Silences" from the menu.

    Silences menu

  2. Ensure that you select "AlertManager" on the top right corner of the page, this will make sure that you create a silence inside of the AlertManager that is managed by the Prometheus operator instead of the built-in Grafana AlertManager which is not used.

    AlertManager list

    !!! warning

    It's important that you select the AlertManager that is managed by the Prometheus operator, otherwise your silence will not be applied to the Prometheus instance that is deployed as part of Atmosphere.

  3. Click the "Add Silence" button and use the AlertManager format to create your silence, which you can test by seeing if it matches any alerts in the list labeled "Affected alert instances".

!!! note

It is strongly recommended that you create a silence with the least amount
of needed labels which will make sure that small minor changes to the
alerts will not break your silence.