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title: Notification template reference
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sort_rank: 7
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---
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# Notification Template Reference
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Prometheus creates and sends alerts to the Alertmanager which then sends notifications out to different receivers based on their labels.
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A receiver can be one of many integrations including: Slack, PagerDuty, email, or a custom integration via the generic webhook interface.
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The notifications sent to receivers are constructed via templates. The Alertmanager comes with default templates but they can also be customized.
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To avoid confusion it's important to note that the Alertmanager templates differ from [templating in Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/template_reference/), however Prometheus templating also includes the templating in alert rule labels/annotations.
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The Alertmanager's notification templates are based on the [Go templating](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template) system.
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Note that some fields are evaluated as text, and others as HTML which will affect escaping.
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# Data Structures
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## Data
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`Data` is the structure passed to notification templates and webhook pushes.
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| Name | Type | Notes |
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| ------------- | ------------- | -------- |
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| Receiver | string | Defines the receiver's name that the notification will be sent to (slack, email etc.). |
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| Status | string | Defined as firing if at least one alert is firing, otherwise resolved. |
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| Alerts | [Alert](#alert) | List of all alert objects in this group ([see below](#alert)). |
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| GroupLabels | [KV](#kv) | The labels these alerts were grouped by. |
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| CommonLabels | [KV](#kv) | The labels common to all of the alerts. |
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| CommonAnnotations | [KV](#kv) | Set of common annotations to all of the alerts. Used for longer additional strings of information about the alert. |
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| ExternalURL | string | Backlink to the Alertmanager that sent the notification. |
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The `Alerts` type exposes functions for filtering alerts:
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- `Alerts.Firing` returns a list of currently firing alert objects in this group
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- `Alerts.Resolved` returns a list of resolved alert objects in this group
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## Alert
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`Alert` holds one alert for notification templates.
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| Name | Type | Notes |
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| ------------- | ------------- | -------- |
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| Status | string | Defines whether or not the alert is resolved or currently firing. |
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| Labels | [KV](#kv) | A set of labels to be attached to the alert. |
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| Annotations | [KV](#kv) | A set of annotations for the alert. |
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| StartsAt | time.Time | The time the alert started firing. If omitted, the current time is assigned by the Alertmanager. |
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| EndsAt | time.Time | Only set if the end time of an alert is known. Otherwise set to a configurable timeout period from the time since the last alert was received. |
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| GeneratorURL | string | A backlink which identifies the causing entity of this alert. |
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| Fingerprint | string | Fingerprint that can be used to identify the alert. |
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## KV
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`KV` is a set of key/value string pairs used to represent labels and annotations.
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```
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type KV map[string]string
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```
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Annotation example containing two annotations:
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```
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{
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summary: "alert summary",
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description: "alert description",
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}
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```
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In addition to direct access of data (labels and annotations) stored as KV, there are also methods for sorting, removing, and viewing the LabelSets:
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### KV methods
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| Name | Arguments | Returns | Notes |
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| ------------- | ------------- | -------- | -------- |
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| SortedPairs | - | Pairs (list of key/value string pairs.) | Returns a sorted list of key/value pairs. |
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| Remove | []string | KV | Returns a copy of the key/value map without the given keys. |
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| Names | - | []string | Returns the names of the label names in the LabelSet. |
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| Values | - | []string | Returns a list of the values in the LabelSet. |
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# Functions
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Note the [default
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functions](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#hdr-Functions) also provided by Go
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templating.
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## Strings
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| Name | Arguments | Returns | Notes |
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| ------------- | ------------- | -------- | -------- |
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| title | string |[strings.Title](http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#Title), capitalises first character of each word. |
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| toUpper | string | [strings.ToUpper](http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#ToUpper), converts all characters to upper case. |
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| toLower | string | [strings.ToLower](http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#ToLower), converts all characters to lower case. |
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| match | pattern, string | [Regexp.MatchString](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/#MatchString). Match a string using Regexp. |
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| reReplaceAll | pattern, replacement, text | [Regexp.ReplaceAllString](http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/#Regexp.ReplaceAllString) Regexp substitution, unanchored. |
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| join | sep string, s []string | [strings.Join](http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#Join), concatenates the elements of s to create a single string. The separator string sep is placed between elements in the resulting string. (note: argument order inverted for easier pipelining in templates.) |
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| safeHtml | text string | [html/template.HTML](https://golang.org/pkg/html/template/#HTML), Marks string as HTML not requiring auto-escaping. |
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| stringSlice | ...string | Returns the passed strings as a slice of strings. |
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