PromCon 2017: Alertmanager and High Availability - Frederic Branczyk
Channel: Prometheus Monitoring
Date: 2017-09-04

* Abstract:

The Alertmanager is a highly critical component in the monitoring pipeline.  Operators must trust it to be a reliable component. Thus in the 0.5 release of the Alertmanager a high availability mode has been implemented. This talk will go over some implementation details of the high availability mode as well as highlight what this means for operators using and running the Alertmanager.

* Speaker biography:

Frederic Branczyk is an engineer at CoreOS, where he contributes to Prometheus and Kubernetes to build state-of-the-art modern infrastructure and monitoring tools. Frederic discovered his interest in monitoring tools and distributed systems in his previous jobs, where he used machine learning to detect anomalies indicating intrusion attempts. He also worked on projects involving secrets management for distributed applications to build sane and stable infrastructure.

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