Silencing Cockpit alerts in Grafana

This page shows you how to temporarily mute (silence) alerts without disabling them from Grafana. A silence temporarily mutes alerts that match a specific set of labels.

Before you start

To complete the actions presented below, you must have:

• A Scaleway account logged into the console
• Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization
• Created data sources
• Enabled the alert manager
• Retrieved your Grafana credentials
• Configured alerts for your resources (preconfigured or custom)

1. Access your Grafana dashboard.
2. Click the Grafana icon in the top left corner of your screen to open the menu.
3. Click the arrow next to Alerting then Silences. Make sure that Scaleway Alerting is selected in the Choose Alertmanager drop-down.
4. Click Create silence.
5. Click the drop-down in the Silence start and end section.
6. Click the Calendar icon and select a time range during which you want to silence alerts.
7. Click Apply time range.
8. Enter a label to match your silence with the alert you want to target. Optionally, click + Add matcher to add more. The alert affected by this silence should display.
   Tip

   Matchers define which alerts are silenced. Each matcher includes a Label (e.g. alertname), an Operator (=, !=, =~, or !~), and a Value (e.g. alert-for-high-cpu-usage).

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9. In the Comment section, describe why you are configuring the silence.
10. Click Save silence to confirm. Your silence displays in the list.
    Tip

    To stop silencing an alert, click Unsilence under the Actions column

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    The silence will display in a section named Expired silences, and be deleted after 5 days.