From ad0482cd9513edafaf76bf33ab753b7184fd81d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "lucas.mathieu" <lmlucas.mathieu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:36:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat(monitoring): add deadman severity and ignore it for
 alertmanager

---
 monitoring/alertmanager/config.yml                 | 2 ++
 monitoring/prometheus/alerts/embedded-exporter.yml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/monitoring/alertmanager/config.yml b/monitoring/alertmanager/config.yml
index 906fd2a..50a46f9 100644
--- a/monitoring/alertmanager/config.yml
+++ b/monitoring/alertmanager/config.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ route:
   group_wait: 30s
   group_interval: 5m
   repeat_interval: 12h
+  matchers:
+    - severity!~"deadman"
   # routes:
   #   - receiver: "pagerduty"
 receivers:
diff --git a/monitoring/prometheus/alerts/embedded-exporter.yml b/monitoring/prometheus/alerts/embedded-exporter.yml
index 5c623d5..bcb3101 100644
--- a/monitoring/prometheus/alerts/embedded-exporter.yml
+++ b/monitoring/prometheus/alerts/embedded-exporter.yml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ groups:
       expr: 'vector(1)'
       for: 0m
       labels:
-        severity: critical
+        severity: deadman
       annotations:
         summary: Prometheus AlertManager E2E dead man switch (instance {{ $labels.instance }})
         description: "Prometheus DeadManSwitch is an always-firing alert. It's used as an end-to-end test of Prometheus through the Alertmanager.\n  VALUE = {{ $value }}\n  LABELS = {{ $labels }}"