Add support for external Alertmanager

[bsgrigorov]

A lot of orgs have kube-prometheus-stack deployed and already have alertmanager running. It seems redundant to run 2 separate deployments of alertmanager and have to manage routes, templates, etc for both.

Can you provide support for specifying external alertmanager? Also it would be great if there is a programatic way to create alerts from yaml files.

[adizalmanovich]

agree

[therealpandey]

Hi @bsgrigorov,
SigNoz does not support integration with prometheus/alertmanager yet. The SigNoz alertmanager is a customized fork of the prometheus/alertmanager designed to run with SigNoz. More information can be found here: https://signoz.io/docs/faqs/product/#q-what-is-the-difference-between-signozalertmanager-and-prometheusalertmanager

You can request support for prometheus/alertmanager here: https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz/issues

[therealpandey]

Quick update here:
With release of SigNoz v0.76.0, frontend, query-service and alertmanager have been bundled into a single component called SigNoz. More details here: SigNoz/signoz#7309.

This new binary does not need an external alertmanager at all.