Testing alerts with Alertmanager

alert.json

[
  {
    "labels": {
       "alertname": "ServiceHighRequestLatency",
       "region": "useast2",
       "job": "blackbox",
       "protocol": "https",
       "service": "www",
       "instance": "https://www.example.com"
     },
     "annotations": {
        "info": "Probes originating from useast2 have an average request latency above 4s (current value: TEST)",
        "summary": "HighRequestLatency on www"
      }
  },
  {
    "labels": {
       "alertname": "ServiceHighRequestLatency",
       "region": "uswest2",
       "job": "blackbox",
       "protocol": "https",
       "service": "www",
       "instance": "https://www.example.com"
     },
     "annotations": {
        "info": "Probes originating from useast2 have an average request latency above 4s (current value: TEST)",
        "summary": "HighRequestLatency on www"
      }
  }
]

test.sh

URL="http://127.0.0.1:9093"
alert=$(cat alert.json)
curl -XPOST -d"$alert" $URL/api/v1/alerts