PCA (Prometheus Certified Associate) sample exam question with answer 448

Question:
What is the purpose of the alertmanager.yml configuration file?

  1. To define alert rules
  2. To define target endpoints
  3. To define scrape intervals
  4. To define alerting channels and receivers
Answer:
D - is correct. The alertmanager.yml configuration file is used to define the alerting channels and receivers that the Prometheus alertmanager should use to send alerts