chore(alertmanager): untrack alertmanager.yml + ship .example template (post-SMTP migration)
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Yesterday's deploy debug surfaced a SendGrid API key pasted into the
tracked monitoring/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml on prod, with the
in-repo file literally captioning the field "TODO: Paste your SG.xxx
API key here" — actively encouraging the anti-pattern. Forensic
follow-up (bash history lines 290-357) confirmed it was a user-driven
nano edit that was never committed, just left as a long-running local
mod. Three problems collapsed into this finding:

  1. Real SMTP credential lived in a tracked git file on prod.
  2. The SendGrid → mail1.myservices.hosting SMTP migration never
     touched alertmanager — it still pointed at smtp.sendgrid.net.
  3. The alertmanager container has been Up 13 days with the
     pre-paste empty smtp_auth_password loaded from disk, so prod's
     email alerting has been silently failing.

Resolution shipped here:

- `git rm --cached monitoring/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml` so the
  prod-edited file on each host stops being a tracked file and the
  credential can't accidentally reach git again.
- Add `monitoring/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml` to .gitignore.
- Ship `monitoring/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml.example` as the
  template — pre-filled with the post-migration non-secret routing
  (`mail1.myservices.hosting:587`, `support@wizard.lu` auth,
  `alerts@wizard.lu` From for inbox clarity), only `smtp_auth_password`
  left as `CHANGEME`. Includes inline guidance for the From-vs-auth
  rule that some SMTP relays enforce.

Per-host steps (Hetzner): backup the prod-edited file → revert local
change → pull → copy the template over the old file → fill in the
password → SIGHUP alertmanager. Doc reference will follow in the next
commit (Hetzner deploy doc still needs an "alertmanager.yml lives
outside git" footnote).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Security audit (needs revamping)
scripts/security-audit/
# Alertmanager config is per-host (contains SMTP credentials) — ship
# alertmanager.yml.example as the template, real file lives outside git.
monitoring/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml

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# Alertmanager Configuration for Orion Platform
# Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/configuration/
global:
resolve_timeout: 5m
# ─── SMTP Configuration (SendGrid) ──────────────────────────────────
# Sign up at sendgrid.com, create an API key, authenticate wizard.lu domain
# Username is literally the string "apikey", password is your SG.xxx API key
smtp_smarthost: 'smtp.sendgrid.net:587' # SendGrid SMTP relay
smtp_from: 'alerts@wizard.lu' # Must match authenticated domain
smtp_auth_username: 'apikey' # Always "apikey" for SendGrid
smtp_auth_password: '' # TODO: Paste your SG.xxx API key here
smtp_require_tls: true
route:
# Group alerts by name and severity
group_by: ['alertname', 'severity']
group_wait: 30s
group_interval: 5m
repeat_interval: 4h
receiver: 'email-warnings'
routes:
# Critical alerts: repeat every 1 hour
- match:
severity: critical
receiver: 'email-critical'
repeat_interval: 1h
# Warning alerts: repeat every 4 hours
- match:
severity: warning
receiver: 'email-warnings'
repeat_interval: 4h
receivers:
- name: 'email-critical'
email_configs:
- to: 'admin@wizard.lu' # TODO: Replace with your alert recipient
send_resolved: true
headers:
Subject: '[CRITICAL] Orion: {{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}'
- name: 'email-warnings'
email_configs:
- to: 'admin@wizard.lu' # TODO: Replace with your alert recipient
send_resolved: true
headers:
Subject: '[WARNING] Orion: {{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}'
# Inhibition rules — suppress warnings when critical is already firing
inhibit_rules:
- source_match:
severity: 'critical'
target_match:
severity: 'warning'
equal: ['alertname', 'instance']

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# Alertmanager Configuration for Orion Platform — TEMPLATE
# Docs: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/configuration/
#
# This is the IN-REPO TEMPLATE. The real file on each host lives at
# monitoring/alertmanager/alertmanager.yml (gitignored, never committed).
# Copy this file to that path and fill in the CHANGEME values per
# docs/deployment/hetzner-server-setup.md.
global:
resolve_timeout: 5m
# ─── SMTP Configuration (mail1.myservices.hosting relay) ────────────
# Migrated from SendGrid to mail1.myservices.hosting on 2026-??-?? —
# same SMTP backend the app uses (see /admin/settings).
#
# smtp_from is set to alerts@wizard.lu for inbox routing clarity. Most
# SMTP relays allow the From: header to differ from the authenticated
# user, BUT some require them to match. If you see "550 sender not
# authorized" in the alertmanager logs after a reload, either:
# 1. Configure alerts@wizard.lu as a send-as alias on the support@
# mailbox in your mail hosting control panel, or
# 2. Change smtp_from to 'support@wizard.lu' (less clear in inbox).
smtp_smarthost: 'mail1.myservices.hosting:587'
smtp_from: 'alerts@wizard.lu'
smtp_auth_username: 'support@wizard.lu'
smtp_auth_password: 'CHANGEME' # The /admin/settings SMTP password. NEVER commit a real value.
smtp_require_tls: true
route:
# Group alerts by name and severity
group_by: ['alertname', 'severity']
group_wait: 30s
group_interval: 5m
repeat_interval: 4h
receiver: 'email-warnings'
routes:
# Critical alerts: repeat every 1 hour
- match:
severity: critical
receiver: 'email-critical'
repeat_interval: 1h
# Warning alerts: repeat every 4 hours
- match:
severity: warning
receiver: 'email-warnings'
repeat_interval: 4h
receivers:
- name: 'email-critical'
email_configs:
- to: 'admin@wizard.lu' # Recipient mailbox for critical alerts
send_resolved: true
headers:
Subject: '[CRITICAL] Orion: {{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}'
- name: 'email-warnings'
email_configs:
- to: 'admin@wizard.lu' # Recipient mailbox for warning alerts
send_resolved: true
headers:
Subject: '[WARNING] Orion: {{ .GroupLabels.alertname }}'
# Inhibition rules — suppress warnings when critical is already firing
inhibit_rules:
- source_match:
severity: 'critical'
target_match:
severity: 'warning'
equal: ['alertname', 'instance']