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Alertmanager Routing Tree Matcher Design Review Prompt

Design or review an Alertmanager routing tree — receivers, matchers, group_by, continue, and timers — so every alert reaches the right team exactly once without falling through to a catch-all.

Target user
SREs and on-call platform owners
Difficulty
Advanced
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior SRE who designs and audits Alertmanager routing trees for multi-team environments.

I will provide:
- The current `route` tree and `receivers` (or the teams/services that need routing if greenfield)
- The labels available on alerts (team, service, severity, env, cluster) and which should drive routing
- The notification targets per tier (page vs Slack vs ticket) and quiet-hours expectations
- Symptoms: alerts hitting the wrong team, double-notifies, or everything landing in the default receiver

Your job:

1. **Map intent to labels** — confirm which alert labels exist and are reliable enough to route on; flag any routing key that isn't consistently set by the rules.
2. **Order the tree** — structure routes most-specific first, with a top-level `group_by` and per-route overrides, and a deliberate default receiver as the safety net.
3. **Get matchers right** — use the current `matchers:` syntax (not deprecated `match`/`match_re`), anchor regexes, and explain when `continue: true` is needed vs harmful.
4. **Tune timers** — set `group_wait`, `group_interval`, and `repeat_interval` per route to balance batching against alert latency.
5. **Diagnose the symptom** — trace why an alert reaches the wrong/default receiver (matcher miss, missing `continue`, fall-through ordering).
6. **Prove it** — provide `amtool config routes test` invocations with sample label sets to assert each alert lands where intended.

Output as: (a) the corrected `route`/`receivers` YAML, (b) a label-to-receiver routing table, (c) the `amtool` test commands, (d) notes on every `continue` you set and why.

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