Alarmami

Alarmami is an open-source alarm management platform designed to centralize and structure alerts from diverse monitoring systems. It provides routing, silencing, escalation policies, and on-call scheduling to ensure that the right responders are notified with minimal noise. The project emphasizes modularity, declarative configuration, and an auditable incident history.

The architecture comprises a lightweight ingestion layer, a rule engine for routing decisions, a notification subsystem with pluggable channels, and a storage layer for incidents and state. It accepts events from tools such as Prometheus, Nagios, Zabbix, and cloud monitoring services, normalizes them, applies user-defined routing, and dispatches notifications via email, SMS, push, chat apps, or PagerDuty-like integrations. The system supports deduplication, silences, and escalation chains, as well as on-call rotations and maintenance windows.

Originating as a community project in the mid-2010s, Alarmami evolved through broader adoption and periodic releases. It is typically deployed on-premises or in containerized environments and is distributed under a permissive open-source license. Administrators can define alerts, schedules, and policies through a declarative configuration language or API, enabling testing, templating, and replay of incidents.

In practice, Alarmami is used by small to medium teams seeking centralized alert management and improved incident response. It competes with other alert managers by offering flexible routing, strong API access, and interoperability with existing monitoring stacks. See also: alert management, incident response, on-call scheduling.