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Aug 22, 2023 · Operations

Persisting Prometheus Alertmanager Alerts with Alertsnitch, MySQL, and Grafana

This article explains how Prometheus stores alerts only as time‑series data, why that limits historical queries, and provides a complete open‑source solution using Alertmanager, Alertsnitch, MySQL, and Grafana to persist, query, and visualize alerts in production environments.