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Adds feature flag EnableMutedAlertsInNflog and keeps muted alerts in the nflog Entry for all muting stages.

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Adds a configuration switch for "muted-alerts-in-nflog". When set, muted alerts are retained in the MutedAlerts list of the log entry.


Assisted-by: Claude Code

Entry records the alerts that were firing and resolved at the time of the
last notification, but not the ones that were muted. The mute stages drop
muted alerts before the dedup stage runs, so they are absent from both
lists and indistinguishable from alerts that stopped firing.

Add a muted_alerts field alongside them, an IsMutedSubset helper mirroring
IsFiringSubset and IsResolvedSubset, and a mutedAlerts parameter on
Log(). The field number 9 is new; existing field numbers are untouched, so
entries gossiped by peers that predate this field decode with MutedAlerts
unset, and entries this version writes are readable by those peers.

Nothing populates the field yet: SetNotifiesStage passes nil, and the
dedup stage does not read it. This is the schema and write path only, so
that the behavior change can be reviewed on its own.

Generated code regenerated with scripts/genproto.sh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude

Signed-off-by: Geoff Wilson <geoff@gr-oss.io>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Wilson <geoff@gr-oss.io>
The mute stages remove muted alerts before the dedup stage runs. MuteStage
records the hashes it drops in the context, but the time interval stages
do not, and once every alert in a group is muted MultiStage stops, so no
later stage runs at all. A fully muted group is therefore indistinguishable
from a group with nothing in it.

- Extract MuteStage's recording block into recordMuted, and use it in
  TimeMuteStage and TimeActiveStage, so that all three mute stages record
  what they drop. Like MuteStage, they do so unconditionally: the context
  is populated either way.

- Add MutedMultiStage, a MultiStage that keeps going when a mute stage has
  emptied the group. PipelineBuilder picks it, and SetNotifiesStage records
  the muted hashes only when --enable-feature=muted-alerts-in-nflog is
  set; with the flag off the pipeline and the notification log entries are
  unchanged.

- Guard RetryStage against an empty alert set so a muted group is not
  delivered as an empty notification, and is not counted as one either.

The hashes written to the log are sorted, so entries stay stable across
flushes and across peers.

Nothing reads muted_alerts yet. With the flag on, a fully muted group now
records an entry with an empty firing set.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Code

Signed-off-by: Geoff Wilson <geoff@gr-oss.io>
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The change adds a feature flag for recording muted alert hashes in the notification log. Mute stages store hashes in context, the pipeline continues through empty muted results, and SetNotifiesStage passes sorted hashes to NotificationLog.Log. Tests cover enabled and disabled behavior.

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Muted alerts in notification logs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Feature flag contract
featurecontrol/featurecontrol.go, featurecontrol/featurecontrol_test.go
Defines and registers FeatureMutedAlertsInNflog, exposes it through Flagger, and tests enabled, disabled, and noop behavior.
Muted alert pipeline flow
notify/mute.go, notify/notify.go, notify/retry_stage.go
Mute stages record alert hashes in context. The feature-enabled pipeline continues through empty alert results. RetryStage skips notification work for muted groups.
Notification log emission
notify/set_notifies_stage.go, notify/notify.go
SetNotifiesStage collects and sorts muted hashes when enabled, records their count in telemetry, and passes them to NotificationLog.Log.
Muted alert behavior validation
notify/notify_test.go, notify/muted_alerts_test.go
Tests cover stage continuation, retry behavior, feature-gated logging, sorted hashes, and updated notification log call signatures. Comments are updated to match the current behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AlertPipeline
  participant MutedMultiStage
  participant RetryStage
  participant SetNotifiesStage
  participant NotificationLog
  AlertPipeline->>MutedMultiStage: Execute mute and notification stages
  MutedMultiStage->>RetryStage: Continue with empty alerts and muted hashes
  RetryStage->>SetNotifiesStage: Pass muted-alert context
  SetNotifiesStage->>NotificationLog: Log sorted muted alert hashes
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Signed-off-by: Geoff Wilson <geoff@gr-oss.io>
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