alertmanager/docs/management_api.md

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title: Management API
sort_rank: 9
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# Management API

Alertmanager provides a set of management API to ease automation and integrations.


### Health check

```
GET /-/healthy
HEAD /-/healthy
```

This endpoint always returns 200 and should be used to check Alertmanager health.


### Readiness check

```
GET /-/ready
HEAD /-/ready
```

This endpoint returns 200 when Alertmanager is ready to serve traffic (i.e. respond to queries).


### Reload

```
POST /-/reload
```

This endpoint triggers a reload of the Alertmanager configuration file.

An alternative way to trigger a configuration reload is by sending a `SIGHUP` to the Alertmanager process.