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+# 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.
+
+ 
+
+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.
+
+ 
+
+ !!! 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.
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