Alerting: Document not supporting inhibition rules (#61313)
* Alerting: Document not supporting inhibition rules * Update docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/create-silence.md Co-authored-by: brendamuir <100768211+brendamuir@users.noreply.github.com> * Update docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/alertmanager.md Co-authored-by: brendamuir <100768211+brendamuir@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: brendamuir <100768211+brendamuir@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Grafana Alertmanager is an internal Alertmanager that is pre-configured and avai
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The Grafana Alertmanager can receive alerts from Grafana, but it cannot receive alerts from outside Grafana, for example, from Mimir or Loki.
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**Note that inhibition rules are not supported in the Grafana Alertmanager.**
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**External Alertmanager**
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If you want to use a single alertmanager to receive all your Grafana, Loki, Mimir, and Prometheus alerts, you can set up Grafana to use an external Alertmanager. This external Alertmanager can be configured and administered from within Grafana itself.
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@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ weight: 600
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Silences stop notifications from getting created and last for only a specified window of time.
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**Note that inhibition rules are not supported in the Grafana Alertmanager.**
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## Add silences
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To add a silence, complete the following steps.
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ normalized, then the alerts are put in an in-memory structure. The dispatcher it
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it to a route in the configuration as explained [here](https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/configuration/#route).
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The alert is then matched to an alert group depending on the configuration in the route. The alert is then sent through
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a number of stages including silencing and inhibition and at last the receiver which can include wait, de-duplication,
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a number of stages including silencing and inhibition (which is currently not supported) and at last the receiver which can include wait, de-duplication,
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retry.
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### What are notification channels?
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