Prometheus is an open source monitoring solution that collects metrics data and stores that data in a time series database.
Alerting with Prometheus is separated into two parts. Alerting rules in Prometheus servers send alerts to an Alertmanager. The Alertmanager then manages those alerts, including silencing, inhibition, aggregation and sending out notifications via methods such as on-call notification systems, and chat platforms.
Until now, Prometheus has interfaced with certain chat applications such as e-mail, slack, discord and more. Through them, the alert manager alerts if necessary according to the definitions defined for him.
One chat app that Prometheus doesn’t interface with is google chat.
Because of that reason, many companies that do use google chat in order to communicate with co-workers, cannot get the alerts from Prometheus alert manager to the google chat app.
We want to expend the Prometheus alert manager capabilities, and add the option to send the alerts via google chat.