# alertmanager
**Licence:** Apache-2.0 | **Language:** Go | **Source:** https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager
## Role
Alert routing and deduplication
## Why it's here
Takes alerts from Prometheus and gets them to a human without spamming.
## Running it
Started by `docker compose up -d` on port 9093.
```bash
./fetch-sources.sh ./sources
tar xzf ./sources/alertmanager.tar.gz -C ./sources
```