Is there is a way to create/generate/config/manage alerts in Prometheus through an API?

Monitoring and Observability Prometheus
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Fellas, I am using Prometheus and Prometheus-Alertmanager for our in-house Metrics setups and I am wondering if there is a way to create/generate/config/manage alerts in Prometheus through an API call?

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Hey @U011X86GZBK, it looks like only the GET method is supported through the Alerts API endpoint: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#alerts

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Thanks. Yeah, I saw the GET method but I am looking at Post and apparently there is no post for this. So we need to use the Configuration Management tool (like Ansible) to set it up…

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It looks like the Alerts endpoint is only new, perhaps POST will be supported one day. But for now Ansible is probably your best bet to copy rule files then POST a reload request to Prometheus