Chapter 4. Configuring secrets for Alertmanager The OpenShift Container Platform monitoring stack includes Alertmanager, which routes alerts from Prometheus to endpoint receivers. If you need to authenticate with a receiver so that Alertmanager can send alerts to it, you can configure Alertmanager to use a secret that contains authentication credentials for the receiver. For example, you can configure Alertmanager to use a secret to authenticate with an endpoint receiver that requires a certificate issued by a private Certificate Authority (CA). You can also configure Alertmanager to use a secret to authenticate with a receiver that requires a password file for Basic HTTP authentication. In either case, authentication details are contained in the Secret object rather than in the ConfigMap object. 4.1. Adding a secret to the Alertmanager configuration You can add secrets to the Alertmanager configuration for core platform monitoring components by editing the cluster-monitoring-config config map in the openshift-monitoring project. After you add a secret to the config map, the secret is mounted as a volume at /etc/alertmanager/secrets/<secret_name> within the alertmanager container for the Alertmanager pods. Prerequisites If you are configuring core OpenShift Container Platform monitoring components in the openshift-monitoring project : You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin cluster role. You have created the cluster-monitoring-config config map. You have created the secret to be configured in Alertmanager in the openshift-monitoring project. If you are configuring components that monitor user-defined projects : You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin cluster role, or as a user with the user-workload-monitoring-config-edit role in the openshift-user-workload-monitoring project. You have created the secret to be configured in Alertmanager in the openshift-user-workload-monitoring project. A cluster administrator has enabled monitoring for user-defined projects. You have installed the OpenShift CLI ( oc ). Procedure Edit the ConfigMap object. To add a secret configuration to Alertmanager for core platform monitoring : Edit the cluster-monitoring-config config map in the openshift-monitoring project: USD oc -n openshift-monitoring edit configmap cluster-monitoring-config Add a secrets: section under data/config.yaml/alertmanagerMain with the following configuration: apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanagerMain: secrets: 1 - <secret_name_1> 2 - <secret_name_2> 1 This section contains the secrets to be mounted into Alertmanager. The secrets must be located within the same namespace as the Alertmanager object. 2 The name of the Secret object that contains authentication credentials for the receiver. If you add multiple secrets, place each one on a new line. The following sample config map settings configure Alertmanager to use two Secret objects named test-secret-basic-auth and test-secret-api-token : apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanagerMain: secrets: - test-secret-basic-auth - test-secret-api-token To add a secret configuration to Alertmanager for user-defined project monitoring : Edit the user-workload-monitoring-config config map in the openshift-user-workload-monitoring project: USD oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit configmap user-workload-monitoring-config Add a secrets: section under data/config.yaml/alertmanager/secrets with the following configuration: apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanager: secrets: 1 - <secret_name_1> 2 - <secret_name_2> 1 This section contains the secrets to be mounted into Alertmanager. The secrets must be located within the same namespace as the Alertmanager object. 2 The name of the Secret object that contains authentication credentials for the receiver. If you add multiple secrets, place each one on a new line. The following sample config map settings configure Alertmanager to use two Secret objects named test-secret and test-secret-api-token : apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanager: enabled: true secrets: - test-secret - test-api-receiver-token Save the file to apply the changes. The new configuration is applied automatically. 4.2. Attaching additional labels to your time series and alerts You can attach custom labels to all time series and alerts leaving Prometheus by using the external labels feature of Prometheus. Prerequisites If you are configuring core OpenShift Container Platform monitoring components : You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin cluster role. You have created the cluster-monitoring-config ConfigMap object. If you are configuring components that monitor user-defined projects : You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin cluster role, or as a user with the user-workload-monitoring-config-edit role in the openshift-user-workload-monitoring project. A cluster administrator has enabled monitoring for user-defined projects. You have installed the OpenShift CLI ( oc ). Procedure Edit the ConfigMap object: To attach custom labels to all time series and alerts leaving the Prometheus instance that monitors core OpenShift Container Platform projects : Edit the cluster-monitoring-config ConfigMap object in the openshift-monitoring project: USD oc -n openshift-monitoring edit configmap cluster-monitoring-config Define a map of labels you want to add for every metric under data/config.yaml : apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheusK8s: externalLabels: <key>: <value> 1 1 Substitute <key>: <value> with a map of key-value pairs where <key> is a unique name for the new label and <value> is its value. Warning Do not use prometheus or prometheus_replica as key names, because they are reserved and will be overwritten. Do not use cluster or managed_cluster as key names. Using them can cause issues where you are unable to see data in the developer dashboards. For example, to add metadata about the region and environment to all time series and alerts, use the following example: apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheusK8s: externalLabels: region: eu environment: prod Save the file to apply the changes. The new configuration is applied automatically. To attach custom labels to all time series and alerts leaving the Prometheus instance that monitors user-defined projects : Edit the user-workload-monitoring-config ConfigMap object in the openshift-user-workload-monitoring project: USD oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit configmap user-workload-monitoring-config Define a map of labels you want to add for every metric under data/config.yaml : apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheus: externalLabels: <key>: <value> 1 1 Substitute <key>: <value> with a map of key-value pairs where <key> is a unique name for the new label and <value> is its value. Warning Do not use prometheus or prometheus_replica as key names, because they are reserved and will be overwritten. Do not use cluster or managed_cluster as key names. Using them can cause issues where you are unable to see data in the developer dashboards. Note In the openshift-user-workload-monitoring project, Prometheus handles metrics and Thanos Ruler handles alerting and recording rules. Setting externalLabels for prometheus in the user-workload-monitoring-config ConfigMap object will only configure external labels for metrics and not for any rules. For example, to add metadata about the region and environment to all time series and alerts related to user-defined projects, use the following example: apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheus: externalLabels: region: eu environment: prod Save the file to apply the changes. The pods affected by the new configuration are automatically redeployed. Additional resources See Preparing to configure the monitoring stack for steps to create monitoring config maps. Enabling monitoring for user-defined projects

Commands:
oc -n openshift-monitoring edit configmap cluster-monitoring-config
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanagerMain: secrets: 1 - <secret_name_1> 2 - <secret_name_2>
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanagerMain: secrets: - test-secret-basic-auth - test-secret-api-token
oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit configmap user-workload-monitoring-config
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanager: secrets: 1 - <secret_name_1> 2 - <secret_name_2>
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | alertmanager: enabled: true secrets: - test-secret - test-api-receiver-token
oc -n openshift-monitoring edit configmap cluster-monitoring-config
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheusK8s: externalLabels: <key>: <value> 1
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cluster-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheusK8s: externalLabels: region: eu environment: prod
oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring edit configmap user-workload-monitoring-config
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheus: externalLabels: <key>: <value> 1
apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-workload-monitoring-config namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring data: config.yaml: | prometheus: externalLabels: region: eu environment: prod