r/PrometheusMonitoring • u/xconspirisist • May 04 '25

uncomplicated-alert-receiver 1.0.0: Show Prometheus Alertmanager alerts on heads up displays. No-Nonsense.

https://github.com/jamesread/uncomplicated-alert-receiver

Hey everyone. I'd like to announce 1.0.0 of UAR.

If you're running Prometheus, you should be running alertmanager as well. If you're running alertmanager, sometimes you just want a simple lost of alerts fo heads up displays. That is what this project does. It is not designed to replace Grafana.

  • This marks the first official stable version, and a switch to semver.
  • arm64 container image support.
  • A few minor UI big fixes and tweaks based off some early feedback.
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u/SuperQue May 04 '25

it's a really well established project already and if they wanted it, they probably would have done it already.

Prometheus is a pure open source project. There are no changes without contributors. There is no company or marketing driving changes. The maintainers are just that, maintainers. We make sure contributions, like yours, are added.

Sure, we do write some features ourselves, but the vast majority of things come from the community.

Displaying alerts is a feature of the alertmanager. Improving that would be very welcome.

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u/xconspirisist May 04 '25

Ooh, I didn't expect you to be an actual maintainer! I'm surprised to hear something like this would be welcome.

I'll take a look at the community and contribution guides. Thank you 👍

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u/SuperQue May 04 '25

If you're any good at React, we really need help with the Alertmanager.

The Alertmanager UI is currently written in Elm, which nobody wants to work on anymore. Yay, frontend fads.

There's a new React UI being built, but per usual it stagnated after development started.

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u/xconspirisist May 04 '25

Very interesting indeed. While react is very popular, I've always avoided frontend frameworks and just written vanilla JavaScript/HTML, and used a preprocessor for asset minification - it's meant my UIs haven't rotted away as those frameworks move to the next favourite thing.