Welcome to Episode 4 of the Monitoring & Alerting in Real Life series! In this video, we bring your alerting system to life — by connecting Prometheus + Alertmanager + Slack for real-time production notifications. When something goes wrong, you shouldn’t find out from users — you should find out from your alert system first. This episode teaches exactly how to make that happen. 🎯 What You’ll Learn: What are Prometheus alerts and how they work Writing alert rules in alert_rules.yml Setting up Alertmanager for routing alerts Sending Slack notifications using webhook integrations Grouping, deduplication, and repeat intervals Testing real-world outage alerts in Docker 🧩 Tech Stack: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Docker Compose, Flask App, Slack Webhooks 💡 By the End: You’ll have a production-grade alerting pipeline where every warning and critical error triggers an instant Slack message — just like in real SRE setups. 👉 Watch full playlist: Monitoring & Alerting Series 👉 Get all reproducible DevOps labs + future episodes → https://learnwithdevopsengineer.beehi... Github repo - https://github.com/learnwithdevopseng... 📺 Watch Next: DevOps HomeLab Series - • DevOps Full Course for Beginners [2 Hours]... DevOps in Production: Real-World Simulations - • DevOps in Production: Real-World Simulations DevOps Home Lab Bootcamp – Build Real Skills at Home - • DevOps Home Lab Bootcamp – Build Real Skil... DevOps in Production: Real-World Simulations - • DevOps in Production: Real-World Simulations DevOps in Action: Real Incidents, Debugging & Automation - • DevOps in Action: Real Incidents, Debuggin... Github Repo - https://github.com/learnwithdevopseng...