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The docs suggest that alert templating only works in the summary and description annotation fields. Some testing and a review of the code suggests this is no longer true and that you can template any annotation field.
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title: Template reference
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sort_rank: 5
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---
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# Template reference
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Prometheus supports templating in the annotations and labels of alerts,
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as well as in served console pages. Templates have the ability to run
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queries against the local database, iterate over data, use conditionals,
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format data, etc. The Prometheus templating language is based on the [Go
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templating](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/) system.
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## Data Structures
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The primary data structure for dealing with time series data is the sample, defined as:
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```go
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type sample struct {
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Labels map[string]string
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Value float64
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}
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```
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The metric name of the sample is encoded in a special `__name__` label in the `Labels` map.
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`[]sample` means a list of samples.
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`interface{}` in Go is similar to a void pointer in C.
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## Functions
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In addition to the [default
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functions](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#hdr-Functions) provided by Go
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templating, Prometheus provides functions for easier processing of query
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results in templates.
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If functions are used in a pipeline, the pipeline value is passed as the last argument.
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### Queries
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| Name | Arguments | Returns | Notes |
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| ------------- | ------------- | -------- | -------- |
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| query | query string | []sample | Queries the database, does not support returning range vectors. |
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| first | []sample | sample | Equivalent to `index a 0` |
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| label | label, sample | string | Equivalent to `index sample.Labels label` |
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| value | sample | float64 | Equivalent to `sample.Value` |
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| sortByLabel | label, []samples | []sample | Sorts the samples by the given label. Is stable. |
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`first`, `label` and `value` are intended to make query results easily usable in pipelines.
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### Numbers
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| Name | Arguments | Returns | Notes |
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| ------------- | --------------| --------| --------- |
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| humanize | number | string | Converts a number to a more readable format, using [metric prefixes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix).
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| humanize1024 | number | string | Like `humanize`, but uses 1024 as the base rather than 1000. |
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| humanizeDuration | number | string | Converts a duration in seconds to a more readable format. |
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| humanizeTimestamp | number | string | Converts a Unix timestamp in seconds to a more readable format. |
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Humanizing functions are intended to produce reasonable output for consumption
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by humans, and are not guaranteed to return the same results between Prometheus
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versions.
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### Strings
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| Name | Arguments | Returns | Notes |
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| ------------- | ------------- | ------- | ----------- |
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| title | string | string | [strings.Title](http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#Title), capitalises first character of each word.|
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| toUpper | string | string | [strings.ToUpper](http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#ToUpper), converts all characters to upper case.|
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| toLower | string | string | [strings.ToLower](http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#ToLower), converts all characters to lower case.|
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| match | pattern, text | boolean | [regexp.MatchString](http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/#MatchString) Tests for a unanchored regexp match. |
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| reReplaceAll | pattern, replacement, text | string | [Regexp.ReplaceAllString](http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/#Regexp.ReplaceAllString) Regexp substitution, unanchored. |
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| graphLink | expr | string | Returns path to graph view in the [expression browser](https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/browser/) for the expression. |
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| tableLink | expr | string | Returns path to tabular ("Console") view in the [expression browser](https://prometheus.io/docs/visualization/browser/) for the expression. |
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### Others
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| Name | Arguments | Returns | Notes |
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| ------------- | ------------- | ------- | ----------- |
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| args | []interface{} | map[string]interface{} | This converts a list of objects to a map with keys arg0, arg1 etc. This is intended to allow multiple arguments to be passed to templates. |
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| tmpl | string, []interface{} | nothing | Like the built-in `template`, but allows non-literals as the template name. Note that the result is assumed to be safe, and will not be auto-escaped. Only available in consoles. |
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| safeHtml | string | string | Marks string as HTML not requiring auto-escaping. |
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## Template type differences
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Each of the types of templates provide different information that can be used to
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parameterize templates, and have a few other differences.
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### Alert field templates
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`.Value` and `.Labels` contain the alert value and labels. They are also exposed
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as the `$value` and `$labels` variables for convenience.
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### Console templates
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Consoles are exposed on `/consoles/`, and sourced from the directory pointed to
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by the `-web.console.templates` flag.
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Console templates are rendered with
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[html/template](http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/), which provides
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auto-escaping. To bypass the auto-escaping use the `safe*` functions.,
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URL parameters are available as a map in `.Params`. To access multiple URL
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parameters by the same name, `.RawParams` is a map of the list values for each
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parameter. The URL path is available in `.Path`, excluding the `/consoles/`
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prefix.
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Consoles also have access to all the templates defined with `{{define
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"templateName"}}...{{end}}` found in `*.lib` files in the directory pointed to
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by the `-web.console.libraries` flag. As this is a shared namespace, take care
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to avoid clashes with other users. Template names beginning with `prom`,
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`_prom`, and `__` are reserved for use by Prometheus, as are the functions
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listed above.
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