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	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

See contributor guideline.

Troubleshooting

See troubleshooting.

License

This project is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.