Custom Alerts Using Prometheus in Rancher

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This article is a follow up to Custom Alerts Using Prometheus Queries. In this post, we will also demo installing Prometheus and configuring Alertmanager to send emails when alerts are fired, but in a much simpler way – using Rancher all the way through. We’ll see how easy it is to accomplish this without the dependencies used in previous article. We won’t need: a dedicated box configured to run kubectl pointing to Kubernetes cluster knowledge of kubectl as we can do everything using Rancher’s UI helm binary installed/configured Prerequisites for the Demo A Google Cloud Platform account (the free tier is sufficient).

https://rancher.com/blog/2020/custom-alerts-using-prometheus/