Forward alerts to an alert receiver with alert manager in Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

When an alert is raised by an alert rule, it is sent to alert manager. Alert manager performs functions such as deduplicating alerts, inhibiting alerts during maintenance, or grouping them as needed. It then forwards the alert as a message to an alert receiver. You can set up an alert receiver that can notify operators, have automated responses, or respond to the alerts in other ways.

The only alert receiver supported in Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). For more information, see What is Amazon SNS?. Amazon SNS can be used to respond to alerts in a wide variety of ways, including forwarding to other systems, such as email, SMS, or HTTP endpoints.

The following topics describe the tasks associated with creating and configuring your Amazon SNS alert receiver.