promtool syntax detects errors

[coderlzw-cn]

What did you do?

promtool check rules prometheus.yml

What did you expect to see?

v2.46.0 can directly use the default configuration detection is ok, what does the new version do

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

Checking prometheus.yml
FAILED:
prometheus.yml: yaml: unmarshal errors:
line 2: field global not found in type rulefmt.RuleGroups
line 8: field alerting not found in type rulefmt.RuleGroups
line 15: field rule_files not found in type rulefmt.RuleGroups
line 21: field scrape_configs not found in type rulefmt.RuleGroups

System information

docker

Prometheus version

prometheus, version 2.51.2 (branch: HEAD, revision: b4c0ab52c3e9b940ab803581ddae9b3d9a452337)
  build user:       root@273ef2abb52b
  build date:       20240410-14:05:54
  go version:       go1.22.2
  platform:         darwin/amd64
  tags:             netgo,builtinassets,stringlabels

Prometheus configuration file

No response

Alertmanager version

No response

Alertmanager configuration file

# my global config
global:
  scrape_interval: 15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.
  evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.
  # scrape_timeout is set to the global default (10s).

# Alertmanager configuration
alerting:
  alertmanagers:
    - static_configs:
        - targets:
          # - alertmanager:9093

# Load rules once and periodically evaluate them according to the global 'evaluation_interval'.
rule_files:
  # - "first_rules.yml"
  # - "second_rules.yml"

# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:
# Here it's Prometheus itself.
scrape_configs:
  # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.
  - job_name: "prometheus"

    # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
    # scheme defaults to 'http'.

    static_configs:
      - targets: ["localhost:9090"]

Logs

No response

[dgl]

check rules is designed for Prometheus rules. I think you’ve provided either a Prometheus config or an alertmanager config. Those need either promtool check config or amtool check-config.