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Does inhibition suppress an alert across separate, independently-run Alertmanager clusters?
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Does inhibition suppress an alert across separate, independently-run Alertmanager clusters?
What file typically holds Alertmanager's configuration?
What command-line tool is commonly used to manage silences from the terminal?
What does `amtool config routes test severity=critical team=payments` help verify?
What is the purpose of an "inhibition rule"?
What does `continue: true` on a route accomplish?
Why is it recommended to run Alertmanager as a cluster of multiple replicas rather than a single instance?
What does the `equal` field in an inhibit_rule do?
What is the difference between `group_interval` and `repeat_interval`?
What does `resolve_timeout` in the `global` config section control?
Why might setting `repeat_interval` very low (e.g. a few minutes) for a noisy, low-severity alert be a bad idea?
Alertmanager receives the same critical alert from two Prometheus instances monitoring the same target in an HA pair. What prevents the on-call engineer from getting two separate pages for it?