PCA (Prometheus Certified Associate) sample exam question with answer 77

Question:
Which component of the Prometheus system architecture is responsible for sending alerts to different notification channels?

  1. Prometheus server
  2. Alertmanager
  3. Exporters
  4. Pushgateway
Answer:
B - The Alertmanager is responsible for handling alerts sent by Prometheus server and routing them to various notification channels like email, slack, pagerduty, etc.