February 2026 — Prometheus/alertmanager: Implemented Slack Receiver: Edit Existing Messages feature with configuration to enable message edits, requiring proper bot token permissions. Augmented error handling for misconfigurations and updated notification logic to support in-place editing. No major bugs fixed this month; focus on delivering a robust Slack integration and reducing notification noise.

January 2025 monthly summary for prometheus-community/helm-charts focusing on delivering improved Prometheus scraping reliability through a configurable fallback protocol. The main deliverable is the new fallbackScrapeProtocol option for additionalServiceMonitors and additionalPodMonitors in the kube-prometheus-stack Helm chart, along with chart version and template updates to expose this option. This change enables users to specify a fallback scraping protocol, enhancing monitoring in diverse environments and reducing scraping failures where default protocols are unsuitable. The work is associated with commit c8834dd9c35aa9fd50c63bf8382dc7fadb89d689 ("[kube-prometheus-stack] Added fallbackScrapeProtocol option to additionalServiceMonitors and additionalPodMonitors"), supporting performance improvement and reliability improvements in deployments. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature delivery and quality of monitoring across environments.