# Prometheus for Managers - Alerting

DevFeed: [Prometheus for Managers - Alerting](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/prometheus-for-managers-alerting-40820.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://magdamiu.com/2024/02/29/prometheus-for-managers-alerting/>)

Author: Magda Miu

Published: 2024-02-29T06:30:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Magda Miu](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/magda-miu.md>)

Topics: [Prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prometheus.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notifications.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Time Series](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/time-series.md>)

Tags: [alertmanager](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/alertmanager.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [magdamiu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/magdamiu.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/notifications.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prometheus.md>), [query](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/query.md>), [system-design-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/system-design-engineering.md>), [time-series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-series.md>)

## AI overview

The final post in the "Prometheus for Managers" series explains alerting with Prometheus and Alertmanager. It covers recording rules, alerting rules, PromQL-based conditions, configuration and rule files, and how alerts are delivered through channels such as email, Slack, PagerDuty, pages, and chat messages.

## Source excerpt

This post is the last one from the series "Prometheus for Managers". In the second article from this series, the one about Prometheus Architecture, I touched on what Alertmanager does. So to recap, Prometheus allows for setting up alerts based on defined thresholds or conditions and AlertManager handles these alerts and sends them as notifications to ... Continue reading Prometheus for Managers - Alerting