title: How to test the validity of alertmanager.yaml
body: <p>Is there a way to find why my alert manager configurations are not being applied?</p>
  <p>from the <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/configuration/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">doc</a>, the reason for that is that the file is not valid.</p>
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  <p>Alertmanager can reload its configuration at runtime. If the new configuration is not well-formed, the changes will not be applied and an error is logged. A configuration reload is triggered by sending a SIGHUP to the processor sending an HTTP POST request to the /-/reload endpoint.
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  <p>I am trying to find a way to test the validity of my alertmanager.yaml</p>
  <p>I came through the amtool git repo then it takes me through installing the alert manager itself where amtool is included inside.
  Ok, I did that and I got the amtool.exe downloaded inside the alert manager package.</p>
  <p>I added my file in the config folder that is supposed to be scanned by the tool. But I didn't get an answer from it, it keeps shutting its console screen without showing any log.</p>
  <p>Second,
  I have installed the Prometheus stack Helm chart on my k8s cluster from the Prometheus stack community git repo, how do I find the amtool inside?</p>
  <p>No code sample it is not a code issue.</p>
  <p>Thanks everyone.</p>