Trying out Unblocked
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Unblocked, nor Unblocked sponsored this post in any way. This is my a genuine account of my time spent with Unblocked. I wanted to give Unblocked a try for a while, but never got a good excuse. Last week I came across opslane , which does something I always thought would have been great to have as part a ChatOps setup. Since opslane does not support Prometheus Alertmanager I decided to fork it, and then give unblocked a try. First, I familiarized with the code in a codespace, once I had an idea of how the code is setup I decided to give Unblocked some tasks. The first one was to ask: how do I add a new alert source? BTW, these are the actual questions I used. As far as I can tell Unblocked answer was detailed and accurate. However, before jumping into writing code I needed to assess if my codescene could run tests. We should only touch a codebase after we've ensured it passes tests (it's green), righ...