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With the muted alerts feature enabled, the stages after a mute stage keep running once every alert in the group has been muted, and the receiver chain is a MutedMultiStage. SetNotifiesStage is therefore reached on flushes that deliver nothing, and it wrote an entry anyway. Entry.Timestamp is the time of the last notification, and the dedup stage measures the repeat interval from it, so a group holding one muted alert refreshed its own timestamp on every flush and the repeat interval never elapsed. Skip the write when the dedup stage decided not to notify. Co-Authored-By: Claude Code
Muting does not change whether an alert is firing or resolved: it decides whether the receiver is told about it. Recording muted alerts as a flag over the firing and resolved sets, rather than as a third state, keeps the alert state machine binary and leaves the existing dedup predicates meaning what they already mean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Code
The mute stages record the alerts they remove from the pipeline, but the dedup stage still decided what to notify about from the alerts left in it. A group holding one muted firing alert therefore looked resolved, and the receiver was told its group was over while part of it was still firing. Muting decides whether the receiver is shown an alert, not whether that alert is firing. The notification log entry now records as FiringAlerts minus MutedAlerts. Everything else follows from those two sets. The existing rules keep their shape, with one transition added for a group that is still firing but every alert of which is muted: its notification sequence closes as muted rather than as resolved, reported as ReasonAllAlertsMuted. Closing a sequence that way is not itself a notification, so nothing is delivered and the log is left alone until the per-receiver behaviour in prometheus#5247 says what a receiver wants to be told. ReasonAlertsUnmuted reports the other direction, where an alert the receiver was never shown becomes visible again and continues the sequence it has been part of all along rather than opening a new one. NotificationSequence exposes where a group stands to integrations, which cannot otherwise tell a group that went quiet because it was muted from one that went quiet because it resolved. It is derived from the entry and the flush, never stored. All of this is behind --enable-feature=muted-alerts-in-nflog. With the flag off the dedup stage takes the path it always has, and the characterization tests from the previous PRs still assert the old behaviour unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Code
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds mute-aware notification handling. It records muted alerts, tracks notification sequences, prevents non-sent notifications from updating the log, resolves the feature mode once, and adds tests for these flows. ChangesMute-aware notification flow
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReceiverStage
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ReceiverStage->>DedupStage: Execute with mutedAware mode
DedupStage->>NotificationLog: Read entry and evaluate visible alert state
DedupStage->>SetNotifiesStage: Pass alerts and notification reason
SetNotifiesStage->>NotificationLog: Update only when notification requires sending
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| resolvedHashes, _ := ResolvedAlerts(ctx) | ||
| details := alertDetailsByHash(alerts) | ||
| muted, _ := mutedAlertDetails(ctx) | ||
| muted := mutedAlertDetails(ctx) |
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Include muted alerts in the state-reference lookup.
details contains only alerts. A muted alert is added to allAlerts after this lookup is created. In mute-aware mode, DedupStage includes that alert hash in the firing or resolved context state. alertDetailsForHashes then drops the hash because it is absent from details.
Build details from allAlerts, or merge muted into details, before creating FiringAlerts and ResolvedAlerts. Add a test for a muted firing alert and a muted resolved alert.
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- details := alertDetailsByHash(alerts)
muted := mutedAlertDetails(ctx)
allAlerts := make([]*alert.Alert, 0, len(alerts)+len(muted))
allAlerts = append(allAlerts, alerts...)
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DedupStage.newGroupState adds each muted alert hash to state.firing or state.resolved in mute-aware mode. DedupStage.Exec then stores these slices with WithFiringAlerts and WithResolvedAlerts.
In newNotificationEvent, details is built from alerts before muted is appended to allAlerts. Therefore, a muted hash in firingHashes or resolvedHashes has no entry in details. alertDetailsForHashes drops that hash.
The fix is to move this line after construction of allAlerts:
details := alertDetailsByHash(allAlerts)The existing notification-event test already checks visible firing, resolved, and muted alerts. It should be extended so that a muted alert also appears in either FiringAlerts or ResolvedAlerts, and the expected state-reference list contains that alert.
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I think the code is correct, bot incorrect -- we are building details for what's visible, and we don't want to include muted. I will rename the vars so it's clearer.
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This looks really good! I think there's a small problem with the way continuously muted groups are handled, but otherwise this seems right to me.
| if len(notifiedFiring) > 0 { | ||
| return ReasonAllAlertsMuted | ||
| } | ||
| return ReasonDoNotNotify |
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I'm not sure this is right - if all alerts in a group are muted, we'll fall into this branch even if the repeat interval has elapsed.
Since nflog entries eventually expire, we'll end up losing the state of the group. I think this needs to be handled somewhat like send_resolved where the RetryStage has some special logic that handles an alert group which is fully muted for integrations that don't know how to handle mutes themselves:
alertmanager/notify/retry_stage.go
Lines 95 to 113 in b409543
It is a bit more complex, however, since we need to handle the case of "is now fully muted, but wasn't before" and "continues to be fully muted" separately. Still, I think the NotificationSequence exposes enough information to do that.
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Good catch. I added a new ReasonStillMuted for the continuing case. ReasonAllAlertsMuted no longer returns early — it writes the entry that closes the sequence — and on later flushes, ReasonStillMuted rewrites that entry on each repeat interval so it stays ahead of the expiry. Does that capture the nuance?
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Yeah, I think this works. One small question: When we get to the branch on line 233, are we guaranteed that the group has any alerts in it (muted or otherwise)?
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at line 233, we must have at least one firing alert and all alerts are muted.
| resolvedHashes, _ := ResolvedAlerts(ctx) | ||
| details := alertDetailsByHash(alerts) | ||
| muted, _ := mutedAlertDetails(ctx) | ||
| muted := mutedAlertDetails(ctx) |
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| notified, reason, _ = p.flush(base.Add(10*time.Minute), a, b) | ||
| require.Equal(t, ReasonDoNotNotify, reason) | ||
| require.Empty(t, notified) | ||
| require.Equal(t, 1, p.writes, "a flush that notifies nobody should not write to the notification log") |
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This is related to my comment above, but we do sometimes want to write the nflog when there's nothing to notify about - I think specifically when repeat_interval has elapsed.
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Now updating the nflog entry in this case, via ReasonStillMuted handling.
| }, { | ||
| // The receiver was shown the group, so it is told the group is over, | ||
| // even though the resolved alert is now muted. | ||
| name: "muted alert resolves the group the receiver was told about", |
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I just want to call out that if we were to enable this, it would be a behavior change. It might be acceptable in the sense that it only can generate resolved notifications for groups that sent a notification before being muted, but some for some users it may be unwelcome.
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Should we toggle this with the feature flag?
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We discussed this a bit in the Alertmanager working group meeting, and the conclusion there is that we cannot introduce this behavior without an option to toggle it off.
I don't think a feature flag is fine grained enough. I'd prefer to handle this is per-integration, like send_resolved. Essentially, we need some flag per-integration that indicates that a receiver always wants resolved notifications, regardless of whether the group is muted.
I actually think we could generalize this a little bit, and give the user a per-notification-reason filter:
receiver: my_receiver
slack_configs:
- reason_filters:
all_alerts_resolved: true
alerts_added_to_group: false
all_alerts_resolved_muted: truebut this is both a little awkward for users and a little too much to add to the scope of this change.
So for lack of a better idea, maybe we could just add a new always_send_resolved flag on the integration config? When this is true, notifiers would receive resolved messages for groups that are muted. When false, they would have identical behavior as today.
For implementation, I think this can be done in the RetryStage, similar to the handling of send_resolved today: based on the value of the flag, the actual call to Notify can be short-circuited.
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@Spaceman1701 makes sense -- perhaps the new flag should mention muting, eg send_resolved_when_muted: true|false or muted_group: ignore|resolve?
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🟡 Minor · Build state lookups from allAlerts. · event.go:104-122
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allAlerts.alertDetailsForHashesdrops hashes that are absent from its map. Since muted alerts can remain inFiringAlertsorResolvedAlerts, usingvisibleDetailsomits their state references. Build the lookup fromallAlertsand use it for both lists.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟡 Minor · Resolve firing and resolved references from all alerts. · event.go:110-122
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winResolve firing and resolved references from all alerts.
newGroupStatecan retain a muted alert hash infiringHashesorresolvedHashes.newNotificationEventcurrently passes onlyvisibleDetailstoalertDetailsForHashes, so the muted alert is omitted fromFiringAlertsorResolvedAlertseven though it remains in the event details. Build the lookup fromallAlerts.Proposed fix
allAlerts = append(allAlerts, alerts...) allAlerts = append(allAlerts, mutedDetails...) + allDetails := alertDetailsByHash(allAlerts) return eventrecorder.NewNotificationEvent(eventrecorder.Notification{ Alerts: groupedAlertsWithDetails(allAlerts), - FiringAlerts: groupedAlertReferences(alertDetailsForHashes(visibleDetails, firingHashes)), - ResolvedAlerts: groupedAlertReferences(alertDetailsForHashes(visibleDetails, resolvedHashes)), + FiringAlerts: groupedAlertReferences(alertDetailsForHashes(allDetails, firingHashes)), + ResolvedAlerts: groupedAlertReferences(alertDetailsForHashes(allDetails, resolvedHashes)),🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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| }, { | ||
| // The receiver was shown the group, so it is told the group is over, | ||
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We discussed this a bit in the Alertmanager working group meeting, and the conclusion there is that we cannot introduce this behavior without an option to toggle it off.
I don't think a feature flag is fine grained enough. I'd prefer to handle this is per-integration, like send_resolved. Essentially, we need some flag per-integration that indicates that a receiver always wants resolved notifications, regardless of whether the group is muted.
I actually think we could generalize this a little bit, and give the user a per-notification-reason filter:
receiver: my_receiver
slack_configs:
- reason_filters:
all_alerts_resolved: true
alerts_added_to_group: false
all_alerts_resolved_muted: truebut this is both a little awkward for users and a little too much to add to the scope of this change.
So for lack of a better idea, maybe we could just add a new always_send_resolved flag on the integration config? When this is true, notifiers would receive resolved messages for groups that are muted. When false, they would have identical behavior as today.
For implementation, I think this can be done in the RetryStage, similar to the handling of send_resolved today: based on the value of the flag, the actual call to Notify can be short-circuited.
| if len(notifiedFiring) > 0 { | ||
| return ReasonAllAlertsMuted | ||
| } | ||
| return ReasonDoNotNotify |
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Yeah, I think this works. One small question: When we get to the branch on line 233, are we guaranteed that the group has any alerts in it (muted or otherwise)?
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if we're in the ReasonStillMuted case, do muted alerts end up in the sent list? Based on my reading, they do, but I might be missing something. If that's the case, I think notifiers will be shown a list of muted alerts, which is probably wrong (unless all notifiers are updated to handle this case).
I think what we want to do here is handle notifier mute awareness here, and use this short-circuit case to provide "default" behavior for notifiers that don't handle muted alerts (or configured not to).
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I believe the incoming alerts param are only the visible alerts (muted have been subtracted by muting stages). So those are the only candidates for the sent list.
| // With the feature enabled this stage is reached on flushes that deliver | ||
| // nothing, and most of them are still worth recording: a muted group has | ||
| // gone quiet, and the entry has to say so. A flush the dedup stage found | ||
| // nothing to say about is the exception, since rewriting the entry would | ||
| // refresh its timestamp and defer the repeat interval forever. |
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this has actually always been the case - when a receiver has send_resolved: false, we'll reach this function for a group that delivered nothing. I think we should try to write the pipeline so that we only reach this stage if we intend to write an nflog entry.
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good idea, removing this logic and placing the decision in notify.execStages
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This PR builds on the work of PR #5503 to implement the changed notification logic for muted alerts.
The general approach follows the recommendation of @Spaceman1701, revised a bit in the
#promethus-alertmanagerslack channel. Alerts are now in a binary state of "firing" or "resolved", while maintaining a separate set of "muted" alerts. We store the same alert up to twice - it could be firing or resolved, and additionally muted in either case.Relates-to: #5247
Relates-to: #226
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