Feat Req: Autorefresh for alerts page

[maurorappa]

Proposal

Use case. Why is this important?
The alert page is static and does not reflect the current status of the alerts, a page refresh is needed to see alert active at the moment.
Instead of recurring to other tricks (like auto-refresh browser plugins), we could simply add a meta tag on the html template of the alert page.
One line change will improve the alert page effectiveness.

[brian-brazil]

Thanks for this suggestion. I'm not sure we should be advocating the Prometheus status apis as a primary interface, they're more for debugging. We don't have such features in the expression browser either, leaving that to Grafana.

[krasi-georgiev]

not a big fan of auto refresh. a bit annoying especially when you try to copy something from the page.

Don't see a big problem to hit refresh when you expect that something should have changed.

[maurorappa]

you could have a checkbox like "Enable query history" in the Graph page... but anyway it's not having success, close it :)