Needs example of cluster wide inhibition

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68/100
Issue type
Documentation
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Mostly clear
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Quiet
Tech stack
prometheus
Domain
documentation

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Start with the inhibition section at https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/alertmanager/#inhibition, then compare the existing examples in doc/examples/simple.yml and examples/ha/alertmanager.yml. Add a clear cluster-wide inhibition example in the relevant documentation or configuration example, and verify that it explains how the matching labels suppress alerts across the cluster.

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The documentation here states that inhibition can be used to suppress the same alert coming from an entire cluster:

However, none of the examples I can find online show how this can be done easily in either of these places:

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