From 808a14569d5d1b4e33fecbc91003ae603d9808da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Walz Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 09:30:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update alerting_rules.md (#7252) Update `ALERTS` example be more meta-syntactic. Signed-off-by: Justin Walz --- docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md b/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md index c9c81bb937..74f6c02b12 100644 --- a/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md +++ b/docs/configuration/alerting_rules.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ the "Alerts" tab of your Prometheus instance. This will show you the exact label sets for which each defined alert is currently active. For pending and firing alerts, Prometheus also stores synthetic time series of -the form `ALERTS{alertname="", alertstate="pending|firing", }`. +the form `ALERTS{alertname="", alertstate="", }`. The sample value is set to `1` as long as the alert is in the indicated active (pending or firing) state, and the series is marked stale when this is no longer the case.