Direct link to alert

[grobie]

When many alerts are open, it'd be very helpful to have the option to send a link to a specific alert. The old alertmanager supported this feature.

[josedonizetti]

@grobie Is this issue still valid? Not familiar with the way the old alertmanager used to work.
Deep-linking isn't as easy as adding anchors with elm. :/ But one could use filters to have a link for a specific alert.

[grobie]

The "old alertmanager" I was referring to was the very first alertmanager implementation. By now alertmanager UI has been rewritten 2 times already IIRC.

The "View in AlertManager" links currently generated by alertmanager filter on the receiver. Somehow highlighting the actual alert in that list would be nice, but I'd rather see all alerts open for that receiver then further filtering down that view.

If it's hard/impossible to deep link in elm, then I wouldn't bother too much here.

[stuartnelson3]

It's not an elm thing, it's just a current design thing. I think we have the alert's fingerprint being exposed in the API, so it should be possible to link directly to an alert.

[beorn7]

Also see #868 . There is a subtle difference between linking to an alert and linking to an alert group. The latter is what we need for proper links in alert notifications. Actual notifications are triggered by alert groups, not individual alerts directly.

[SergeyKudrenko]

Any updates on the issue? I am currently doing a custom alertmanager client and it would be great to have an opportunity to make a targeted silences via alert fingerprint.

[stuartnelson3]

No updates, unfortunately