swagger: '2.0' info: version: 0.0.1 title: Alertmanager admin alerts API description: API of the Prometheus Alertmanager (https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager) license: name: Apache 2.0 url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html basePath: /api/v2/ consumes: - application/json produces: - application/json tags: - name: alerts description: Query active alerts and alertmanager discovery. paths: /alerts: get: tags: - alerts summary: Get active alerts operationId: alerts responses: '200': description: Active alerts retrieved successfully. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AlertsOutputBody' examples: activeAlerts: summary: Currently active alerts value: data: alerts: - activeAt: '2026-01-02T13:30:00.000Z' annotations: description: This is an alert meant to ensure that the entire alerting pipeline is functional. This alert is always firing, therefore it should always be firing in Alertmanager and always fire against a receiver. There are integrations with various notification mechanisms that send a notification when this alert is not firing. For example the "DeadMansSnitch" integration in PagerDuty. summary: Ensure entire alerting pipeline is functional labels: alertname: Watchdog severity: warning state: firing value: 1e+00 status: success default: description: Error retrieving alerts. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: tsdbNotReady: summary: TSDB not ready value: error: TSDB not ready errorType: internal status: error /alertmanagers: get: tags: - alerts summary: Get Alertmanager discovery operationId: alertmanagers responses: '200': description: Alertmanager targets retrieved successfully. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AlertmanagersOutputBody' examples: alertmanagerDiscovery: summary: Alertmanager discovery results value: data: activeAlertmanagers: - url: http://demo.prometheus.io:9093/api/v2/alerts droppedAlertmanagers: [] status: success default: description: Error retrieving Alertmanager targets. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' examples: tsdbNotReady: summary: TSDB not ready value: error: TSDB not ready errorType: internal status: error components: schemas: AlertmanagerTarget: type: object properties: url: type: string description: URL of the Alertmanager instance. required: - url additionalProperties: false description: Alertmanager target information. Error: type: object properties: status: type: string enum: - success - error description: Response status. example: success errorType: type: string description: Type of error that occurred. example: bad_data error: type: string description: Human-readable error message. example: invalid parameter required: - status - errorType - error additionalProperties: false description: Error response. Labels: type: object additionalProperties: true description: Label set represented as a key-value map. AlertsOutputBody: type: object properties: status: type: string enum: - success - error description: Response status. example: success data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AlertDiscovery' warnings: type: array items: type: string description: Only set if there were warnings while executing the request. There will still be data in the data field. infos: type: array items: type: string description: Only set if there were info-level annotations while executing the request. required: - status - data additionalProperties: false description: Response body for alerts endpoint. AlertDiscovery: type: object properties: alerts: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Alert' required: - alerts additionalProperties: false description: Alert discovery information containing all active alerts. Alert: type: object properties: labels: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Labels' annotations: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Labels' state: type: string description: State of the alert (pending, firing, or inactive). value: type: string description: Value of the alert expression. activeAt: type: string format: date-time description: Timestamp when the alert became active. keepFiringSince: type: string format: date-time description: Timestamp since the alert has been kept firing. required: - labels - annotations - state - value additionalProperties: false description: Alert information. AlertmanagersOutputBody: type: object properties: status: type: string enum: - success - error description: Response status. example: success data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AlertmanagerDiscovery' warnings: type: array items: type: string description: Only set if there were warnings while executing the request. There will still be data in the data field. infos: type: array items: type: string description: Only set if there were info-level annotations while executing the request. required: - status - data additionalProperties: false description: Response body for alertmanagers endpoint. AlertmanagerDiscovery: type: object properties: activeAlertmanagers: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AlertmanagerTarget' droppedAlertmanagers: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AlertmanagerTarget' required: - activeAlertmanagers - droppedAlertmanagers additionalProperties: false description: Alertmanager discovery information including active and dropped instances.