Alert Flood Mitigation Cheat Sheet

Silences + routing

Last Updated: November 21, 2025

Focus Areas

Focus
Mute noise temporarily
Tune thresholds

Commands & Queries

alertmanager silence add
Silence
route tree match
Adjust
promtool check alerts
Lint

Summary

Mitigation keeps on-call focused.

💡 Pro Tip: Document justification for each silence.
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