DEPRECATED
This role has been deprecated in favor of a the prometheus-community/ansible collection.
Ansible Role: alertmanager
Description
Deploy and manage Prometheus alertmanager service using ansible.
Requirements
- Ansible >= 2.7 (It might work on previous versions, but we cannot guarantee it)
It would be nice to have prometheus installed somewhere
Role Variables
All variables which can be overridden are stored in defaults/main.yml file as well as in table below.
Name | Default Value | Description |
---|---|---|
alertmanager_version |
0.21.0 | Alertmanager package version. Also accepts latest as parameter. |
alertmanager_binary_local_dir |
"" | Allows to use local packages instead of ones distributed on github. As parameter it takes a directory where alertmanager AND amtool binaries are stored on host on which ansible is ran. This overrides alertmanager_version parameter |
alertmanager_web_listen_address |
0.0.0.0:9093 | Address on which alertmanager will be listening |
alertmanager_web_external_url |
http://localhost:9093/ | External address on which alertmanager is available. Useful when behind reverse proxy. Ex. example.org/alertmanager |
alertmanager_config_dir |
/etc/alertmanager | Path to directory with alertmanager configuration |
alertmanager_db_dir |
/var/lib/alertmanager | Path to directory with alertmanager database |
alertmanager_config_file |
alertmanager.yml.j2 | Variable used to provide custom alertmanager configuration file in form of ansible template |
alertmanager_config_flags_extra |
{} | Additional configuration flags passed to prometheus binary at startup |
alertmanager_template_files |
['alertmanager/templates/*.tmpl'] | List of folders where ansible will look for template files which will be copied to {{ alertmanager_config_dir }}/templates/ . Files must have *.tmpl extension |
alertmanager_resolve_timeout |
3m | Time after which an alert is declared resolved |
alertmanager_smtp |
{} | SMTP (email) configuration |
alertmanager_http_config |
{} | Http config for using custom webhooks |
alertmanager_slack_api_url |
"" | Slack webhook url |
alertmanager_pagerduty_url |
"" | Pagerduty webhook url |
alertmanager_opsgenie_api_key |
"" | Opsgenie webhook key |
alertmanager_opsgenie_api_url |
"" | Opsgenie webhook url |
alertmanager_victorops_api_key |
"" | VictorOps webhook key |
alertmanager_victorops_api_url |
"" | VictorOps webhook url |
alertmanager_hipchat_api_url |
"" | Hipchat webhook url |
alertmanager_hipchat_auth_token |
"" | Hipchat authentication token |
alertmanager_wechat_url |
"" | Enterprise WeChat webhook url |
alertmanager_wechat_secret |
"" | Enterprise WeChat secret token |
alertmanager_wechat_corp_id |
"" | Enterprise WeChat corporation id |
alertmanager_cluster |
{listen-address: ""} | HA cluster network configuration. Disabled by default. More information in alertmanager readme |
alertmanager_receivers |
[] | A list of notification receivers. Configuration same as in official docs |
alertmanager_inhibit_rules |
[] | List of inhibition rules. Same as in official docs |
alertmanager_route |
{} | Alert routing. More in official docs |
alertmanager_amtool_config_file |
amtool.yml.j2 | Template for amtool config |
 alertmanager_amtool_config_alertmanager_url |
alertmanager_web_external_url |
 URL of the alertmanager |
 alertmanager_amtool_config_output |
extended | Â Extended output, use "" for simple output. |
Example
Playbook
---
hosts: all
roles:
- ansible-alertmanager
vars:
alertmanager_version: latest
alertmanager_slack_api_url: "http://example.com"
alertmanager_receivers:
- name: slack
slack_configs:
- send_resolved: true
channel: '#alerts'
alertmanager_route:
group_by: ['alertname', 'cluster', 'service']
group_wait: 30s
group_interval: 5m
repeat_interval: 3h
receiver: slack
Demo site
We provide demo site for full monitoring solution based on prometheus and grafana. Repository with code and links to running instances is available on github and site is hosted on DigitalOcean.
Local Testing
The preferred way of locally testing the role is to use Docker and molecule (v3.x). You will have to install Docker on your system. See "Get started" for a Docker package suitable to for your system. Running your tests is as simple as executing molecule test
.
Continuous Integration
Combining molecule and circle CI allows us to test how new PRs will behave when used with multiple ansible versions and multiple operating systems. This also allows use to create test scenarios for different role configurations. As a result we have a quite large test matrix which can take more time than local testing, so please be patient.
Contributing
Troubleshooting
See troubleshooting.
License
This project is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.