Defining additional alert information through labels and annotations

We might want to specify supplementary information to our alerts. We can accomplish that through the usage of alert labels and annotations.

Alert labels clause allows specifying a set of additional labels to be attached to the alert. The annotations clause specifies another set of labels that are not identifying for an alert instance. They are used to store longer additional information such as alert descriptions or runbook links.

We can, for example, update our go-demo stack by adding service labels that follow:

... 
services: 
 
  main: 
    ... 
    deploy: 
      ... 
      labels: 
 
       ... 
        - com.df.alertLabels=severity=high,receiver=system 
        - com.df.alertAnnotations=summary=Service memory is \
 high,description=Do something or start panicking 
      ... 

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