feat(monitoring): add optional email receiver to alertmanager - #3800
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 8 reviews per rolling hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAlerta now supports optional email alerts. The monitoring charts define email settings, validate required fields, configure Alertmanager routes and SMTP delivery, mount authentication Secrets, document the settings, and test rendered output. ChangesAlerta email alerting
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds optional email routing and SMTP/template configuration; the remaining risk is that regressions in route selection, unauthenticated receiver rendering, or custom email content may not be caught by tests, so merge is reasonable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on those assertions. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HelmValues as Helm values
participant AlertaTemplate as Alerta template
participant VMAlertmanager
participant SMTPServer as SMTP server
HelmValues->>AlertaTemplate: provide email settings
AlertaTemplate->>VMAlertmanager: render routes, receiver, and secret mount
VMAlertmanager->>SMTPServer: send matching alerts by SMTP
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In `@packages/system/monitoring/templates/alerta/alerta.yaml`:
- Around line 15-16: Update the email validation condition near the existing
authUsername/secretName check to reject configurations where either
authentication field is set without the other, while preserving the current
failure behavior and message intent. Add a Helm test covering secretName set
without authUsername and assert that rendering fails.
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25-66: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAssert the complete email route contract.
The default test does not reject a stale
receiver: emailroute. The configured test checks genericcontinue: trueandnotify_emailfragments, which can come from the Alerta route. Add route-scoped assertions forreceiver: email, the critical/major matcher,notify_email="true",repeat_interval: 12h, and the configuredto,from, andsmarthostvalues.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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87-105: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAssert the custom subject and body values.
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Subject:andhtml:does not prove that the configured values render. Match the actual subject containing{{ .Status }}and{{ .CommonLabels.alertname }}, and the body<b>{{ .Status }}</b>.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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68-85: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winProve that unauthenticated email delivery still renders.
These assertions only prove that authentication is absent. They also pass if the email receiver is missing. Assert
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In `@packages/system/monitoring/tests/alertmanager_email_test.yaml`:
- Around line 25-66: The email Alertmanager tests should assert the complete
email route contract rather than generic YAML fragments. Update the default case
to reject a stale receiver email route, and update the configured case with
route-scoped assertions for receiver email, the critical/major matcher,
notify_email="true", repeat_interval 12h, and the configured to, from, and
smarthost values.
- Around line 87-105: The test “renders custom subject header and html body when
set” should assert the rendered custom values, not only the presence of Subject
and html keys. Update the matchRegex patterns for alertmanager.yaml to match the
configured subject containing {{ .Status }} and {{ .CommonLabels.alertname }},
and the HTML body containing <b>{{ .Status }}</b>.
- Around line 68-85: Update the “works without SMTP auth when authUsername is
omitted” test to assert that the rendered email receiver has name “email” and
preserves the configured to, from, and smarthost values, while retaining the
existing assertions that authentication and related secrets are absent.
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Nice, careful feature — off by default, mirrors the slack/telegram shape, password stays out
of the config (only auth_password_file, Secret mounted via VMAlertmanager.spec.secrets),
continue: true keeps Alerta from being starved, and the unittest suite is non-vacuous
(12/12, mutations each redden exactly one test). One thing to fix before merge.
Blocking — repeat_interval is rendered unquoted
packages/system/monitoring/templates/alerta/alerta.yaml:286:
repeat_interval: {{ $email.repeatInterval | default "12h" }}
This is the only user-supplied value in the email block without | quote — every sibling
(to, from, smarthost, auth_username, Subject, html) is quoted. It renders into
the stringData: alertmanager.yaml: | block scalar of the alertmanager Secret, there is no
duration validation in the fail-fast block, and the schema type is a free string. Two
concrete failures:
- A typo like
repeatInterval: "tomorrow"renders fine but makes alertmanager fail to load
the config, taking down all alert delivery including Alerta — which contradicts the PR's
own invariant that a broken email path never costs the Alerta copy. - A multi-line string breaks out of the block scalar and injects top-level YAML into the
rendered Secret manifest (or extra routes/receivers into the alertmanager config), which
helm-controller then applies.
Fix is a one-liner consistent with the rest of the file:
{{ $email.repeatInterval | default "12h" | quote }}, ideally plus a duration-format check
in the fail-fast block.
Non-blocking notes
- The email route inherits
group_wait/group_interval: 15sfrom the root route
(:284-289only overridesrepeat_interval). Those 15s are tuned for the Alerta webhook;
for email withsend_resolved: true, a flapping critical produces a mail every ~15-30s.
repeatIntervalonly caps repeats of an unchanged group, so it gives a false sense of
"at most every 12h". Consider explicitgroup_wait/group_intervalon the email route. - A
repeatInterval-only config is a silent no-op: it is excluded from$emailEnabled
(:10), so setting justemail.repeatIntervalyields neither an error nor a receiver —
the one gap in "half-filled config fails the render". - The tests don't assert the relative order of the two routes
(tests/alertmanager_email_test.yaml:63-69— two independent matchRegex). A regression
swapping them (email first, withoutcontinue) would starve Alerta and still pass. A
single combined assertion on theroutesblock order would cover it. - Minor: a typo'd
secretNamefails the whole alertmanager rollout (not just email) — worth
noting in the field description;notify_emailin VMRule labels must be the string
"true"— worth a doc note;documentIndex: 5in tests is fragile,documentSelector
by kind+name is sturdier.
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Fixed in ef9e9b7, plus a generated file that was missing from the branch in 7074c6e.
On the non-blocking notes: the email route now sets Folding Suite is 65/65. Each change was mutation-checked — dropping the quote reddens 2 tests, dropping the duration check 1, dropping the field from the enabled check 1, swapping the route order 1. The rendered config also passes The second commit is |
Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
a secretName without authUsername rendered fine but left the receiver without auth_username and auth_password_file, so the secret got mounted for nothing and delivery failed on any smtp server that wants auth. the opposite case already failed the render, this makes it symmetric. Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
…st fragments the assertions matched loose fragments like "notify_email" or "html:", which the alerta route and other receivers also satisfy, so they would have passed with the email route missing. they now match the rendered route and receiver blocks with the configured to, from and smarthost. Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
authUsername, secretName, subject or bodyHtml on their own left the whole email block silently ignored: the enabled check only looked at to, from and smarthost, so a values file that clearly meant to configure email rendered an alertmanager without one and nobody found out until an alert did not arrive. any of the meaningful fields now turns validation on, and the existing message names the three that are required. Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
repeatInterval was the only user-supplied value in the email block rendered without quotes, straight into the block scalar of the alertmanager Secret. A typo like "tomorrow" rendered fine and then broke the alertmanager config load, taking Alerta delivery down with it, which is exactly the failure the explicit alerta route with continue: true exists to prevent. A multi-line value escaped the block scalar and injected YAML into the rendered Secret. Quote it, and reject anything that is not a duration before the render gets that far. The default moves from values.yaml into the template so the field can gate the email block: with a default in values, a config that sets only repeatInterval was silently ignored, and folding the field into the enabled check would have marked email as configured on every install. The email route no longer inherits group_wait and group_interval from the root route. Fifteen seconds is tuned for the Alerta webhook; for mail with send_resolved, a flapping critical turned that into a message every half a minute, and repeatInterval does not cap it because the group keeps changing. Tests assert the two routes and their order in one pattern, so a regression that puts email first and starves Alerta cannot pass them any more. Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
The email fields landed in values.yaml and values.schema.json without the matching hack/update-crd.sh run, so the resource definition still carried a schema with only the telegram and slack blocks. The pre-commit job runs make generate in every package and diffs the tree, so this would have failed there; the dashboard also reads this schema when it renders the form. Signed-off-by: Yan Bondarenko <202671653+yankawai@users.noreply.github.com>
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What this PR does
There is no way to get an alert by email today: the path is VMRule → vmalert → VMAlertmanager → Alerta, and if you hand-edit an email receiver into the generated
alertmanagerSecret, the next helm upgrade wipes it — which is how we found out.This adds an
alerta.alerts.emailblock to the monitoring values (tenant-facing inpackages/extra/monitoring, template inpackages/system/monitoring). Off by default, and when configured it is still opt-in per alert: onlyseveritycritical or major carrying the labelnotify_email="true"gets routed to email. The email route sits behind an explicitalertaroute withcontinue: trueand the same matchers, so a broken SMTP path costs you the email copy and never the Alerta one.The SMTP password never lands in the config: it comes from an existing Secret (key
password) mounted throughVMAlertmanager.spec.secretsand is referenced withauth_password_file. A half-filled email block fails the render with a readable message instead of producing a receiver that half-works, andauthUsernamewithoutsecretNamefails the same way.subjectandbodyHtmltake optional notification templates for anyone who wants localized emails; empty keeps Alertmanager's built-in template.repeatInterval(empty renders 12h) keeps a stuck alert from flooding the mailbox, is quoted and rejected unless it is a duration, and the email route sets its owngroup_wait/group_intervalrather than inheriting timings tuned for the Alerta webhook. Port 465 gets implicit TLS from Alertmanager's own detection, other ports negotiate STARTTLS.Tested with helm unittest — a new suite of 15 cases over the rendered Secret and VMAlertmanager. Six positive: nothing rendered by default, the full receiver and both routes with the configured
to,from,smarthostand the mounted Secret, the no-auth variant, the custom subject and html, and their absence when unset — matched against the rendered route and receiver blocks rather than loose fragments, so a missing email route cannot pass them. Nine negative: one per way the block can be half-filled —to,authUsername,secretName,subject,bodyHtmlorrepeatIntervalon its own, and each ofauthUsername/secretNamewithout its counterpart — plus arepeatIntervalthat is not a duration. Full monitoring suite 65/65, and every change is mutation-checked: dropping the quote reddens two tests, dropping the duration check one, droppingrepeatIntervalfrom the enabled check one, swapping the two routes one. The rendered configs also went through amtool v0.31.0check-configand a routes-test matrix: opt-in alerts resolve toalerta,email, warning and unlabelled critical stay Alerta-only, heartbeat and blackhole precedence is untouched. Ran as a pilot on a v1.4.6 cluster: firing and resolved delivery over implicit TLS on :465, zero failed notifications, Alerta delivery unaffected throughout. README and schema regenerated with cozyvalues-gen v1.6.0, the version pre-commit pins, andhack/update-crd.shrun for the resource definition.Screenshots
No dashboard/UI change.
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packages/extra/monitoringgains values fields, so its README and schema changed —monitoringis in the website MakefileSERVICESlist, and that reference page regenerates fromREADME.mdautomatically on the next stable tag, so there is no manual follow-up to link. The terraform provider does not model the monitoring service (no such resource underinternal/provider), so nothing to update there either. No package added or renamed, no CRD, no tooling or node contract touched.Release note
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