Silences

silences allow you to temporarily mute notifications for specific alert rules or groups of alerts creating a silence go to alerting > silences click "new silence" set duration and expiration choose a start time set an end time or duration define matching labels use label matchers to target specific alerts add a comment explaining the reason for the silence create the silence managing silences view active and expired silences edit existing silences expire silences manually when no longer needed best practices for silences use short lived silences during maintenance windows regularly review and clean up expired silences implement a process for documenting and approving long term silences