Error when starting local build with example configuration

[davkal]

What did you do?

git pull
make build
./prometheus --config.file=documentation/examples/prometheus.yml 

What did you expect to see?

Prometheus happily running in the foreground.

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

Prometheus stopped on with an error, see logs below.

Environment

• System information:

  Darwin 16.7.0 x86_64

• Prometheus version:

  prometheus, version 2.0.0-rc.3 (branch: master, revision: 8a9b32d)
  build user: david@kenobi-2.local
  build date: 20171105-16:27:20
  go version: go1.9.1

• Alertmanager version:

  insert output of alertmanager --version here (if relevant to the issue)

• Prometheus configuration file:

https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/3382f39046513d93742c02f39d9122f511d575ab/documentation/examples/prometheus.yml

• Alertmanager configuration file:

insert configuration here (if relevant to the issue)

• Logs:

level=error ts=2017-11-05T18:41:40.298082844Z caller=main.go:356 msg="Error loading config" err="couldn't load configuration (--config.file=documentation/examples/prometheus.yml): unknown fields in alertmanager config: static_config"

[davkal]

Proposal for fix: disable sections until config parser is updated.

diff --git a/documentation/examples/prometheus.yml b/documentation/examples/prometheus.yml
index 3f04f541..4967a8d8 100644
--- a/documentation/examples/prometheus.yml
+++ b/documentation/examples/prometheus.yml
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ global:
 # Alertmanager configuration
 alerting:
   alertmanagers:
-  - static_config:
-    - targets:
+  # - static_config:
+    # - targets:
       # - alertmanager:9093
 
 # Load rules once and periodically evaluate them according to the global 'evaluation_interval'.

[lock]

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