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fix(events): include alert details in all notify events - #5500

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Notification events did not include alert details like fingerprint in all cases. This made it defficult to track an alert end to end when querying events produced by event recorder.

This change:

  • adds firing, muted, resolved alerts to notify context
  • emits the alerts in all notify events' details
  • uses fingerprint instead of nflog's xxhash

This is follow up for #5409

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The event schema and recorder now preserve alert fingerprints. Notification context stores full muted alerts. Notification event creation receives the original alert set and resolves firing, resolved, and muted details.

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Alert event pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Alert fingerprint event contracts
proto/eventrecorder/events/v2/events.proto, eventrecorder/events.go, eventrecorder/events_test.go
GroupedAlert now uses fingerprint. Constructors derive fingerprints from alerts or accept fingerprint-only references. Tests verify fingerprint preservation and reference-only messages.
Muted alert detail accumulation
notify/context.go, notify/mute.go, notify/mute_test.go
The context stores detailed muted alerts. Mute stages append suppressed alerts in execution order while preserving alert hashes.
Notification event assembly
notify/event.go, notify/retry_stage.go, notify/notify_test.go
Notification event creation resolves alert details from the supplied alert set, includes muted alerts, and receives the full original alert slice. Tests validate recorded event content and migrate notification fixtures to alert.Alert.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RetryStage
  participant NotificationEvent
  participant EventRecorder
  RetryStage->>NotificationEvent: provide original alert slice
  NotificationEvent->>NotificationEvent: resolve firing, resolved, and muted alerts
  NotificationEvent->>EventRecorder: submit alert fingerprints and details
  EventRecorder-->>RetryStage: record notification event
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JSON-formatted event-recorder output may change from hash to fingerprint for existing consumers. Confirm the compatibility contract before merging.

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In `@notify/event.go`:
- Line 40: Update newNotificationEvent to partition alerts using the
firing/resolved fingerprint snapshot recorded by DedupStage.Exec before
Integration.Notify, rather than calling the time-dependent alert.Resolved()
again. Ensure each event preserves the status observed when notification began,
including alerts that resolve during a slow notifier request.

In `@proto/eventrecorder/events/v2/events.proto`:
- Line 71: Preserve protobuf compatibility in events.proto by retaining the
existing fields 1–4 and their GroupedAlert wire shape; do not replace them with
Alert at those numbers. Add direct-alert fields under new field numbers or
introduce a versioned schema, then update consumers and migrate retained records
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Comment on lines -54 to -59
// GroupedAlert is a reference to an alert within an aggregation group.
message GroupedAlert {
uint64 hash = 1;
optional Alert details = 2;
}

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I'm not sure this is the right thing to do - I think it's useful to have the alert hash recorded here, regardless of whether or not it's needed to join together the alerts in the notification message.

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The hash is internal to Alertmanager, we never expose it in APIs or otherwise so it is not useful for joining an alert notification to an actual received or grouped alert.

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I restored GroupedAlert and switched it to use fingerprint instead of hash.

repeated GroupedAlert muted_alerts = 4;
repeated Alert alerts = 1;
repeated Alert firing_alerts = 2;
repeated Alert resolved_alerts = 3;

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this causes a lot of duplication in the message, right? What if we went the other direction and ensured alerts contains all alerts, and then just provided the hash for firing/resolved/muted? Or we could even make firing/resolved/muted a property of the alert...

I guess I think there's some modeling defect here.

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Good catch, I think this tries to follow what is happening inside the notification pipeline but can result in duplicate data.
I think your suggestion is good, but we need to decide which hash we want to keep here, the nflog hash or the fingerprint.

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Restored as suggested, firing, resolved and muted variants only include fingerprints now.

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siavashs marked this pull request as draft September 14, 2026 10:30
Notification events did not include alert details like fingerprint in
all cases. This made it defficult to track an alert end to end when
querying events produced by event recorder.

This change:
- adds firing, muted, resolved alerts to notify context
- emits the alerts in all notify events' details
- uses fingerprint instead of nflog's xxhash

This is follow up for prometheus#5409

Signed-off-by: Siavash Safi <siavash@cloudflare.com>
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siavashs marked this pull request as ready for review September 14, 2026 10:47
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