config: report all receiver validation errors instead of only the first

[Bisman-Singh]

Config loading stopped at the first invalid notifier config, so fixing a receivers section was run, fix one error, run again. Each notifier's UnmarshalYAML returned its Validate() error as a plain error and yaml.v2 aborts the whole decode on those. It also dropped the type errors it had already collected, so a validation error could hide a send_resolved: "yes_please" a few lines above it.

yaml.v2 keeps decoding when an UnmarshalYAML returns a *yaml.TypeError and reports them together, which is how strict mode unknown field errors come out today. Each notifier now returns its unmarshal and Validate() errors that way through a small helper in config/common and keeps validating inside its own UnmarshalYAML. Config.UnmarshalYAML flattens the collected list back to plain errors at the top, so a single error reads exactly as it does now and several read one per line. config.go is +1/-1 and Config.UnmarshalYAML is unchanged at 397 lines.

amtool check-config on a four receiver config with three broken ones, before and after:

FAILED: missing to address in email config

FAILED: missing to address in email config
missing service or routing key in PagerDuty config
at most one of url & url_file must be configured

Not covered: global fallback errors such as "no global SMTP from set" are produced in Config after decoding, so those still show up on the next run. That needs globals handling to move into the integrations and is left alone here. Unmarshaling a single notifier config on its own now returns a *yaml.TypeError; the tests that do that were updated.

The first two commits are the earlier approach that moved Validate() into Config.UnmarshalYAML. The last commit replaces it and is the one to read.

Pull Request Checklist

• Please list all open issue(s) discussed with maintainers related to this change
  • Fixes Notifiers only return a single error rather than all error. #4990
  • Refs Multiple receivers hide other errors in configuration #4991
• Is this a bugfix?
  • I have added tests that can reproduce the bug which pass with this bugfix applied
• Is this a breaking change?
  • My changes do not break the existing cluster messages
  • My changes do not break the existing api
• I have signed-off my commits
• I will follow best practices for contributing to this project

Which user-facing changes does this PR introduce?

[BUGFIX] Config: report every invalid notifier config in every receiver at once instead of stopping at the first one. #4990

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Walkthrough

Notifier YAML unmarshalling now normalizes decoding and validation errors. Aggregate configuration loading flattens nested errors. Tests verify YAML-wrapped errors and accumulated errors across notifiers and receivers.

Changes

Notifier validation error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validation error helpers config/common/notifierconfig.go	Adds helpers to wrap validation errors as YAML type errors and flatten nested validation errors into plain or joined errors.
Notifier unmarshalling config/notifiers.go, notify/*/config.go	Notifier unmarshallers consistently wrap decoding and validation errors. MSTeamsV2Config defers validation to aggregate configuration loading.
Aggregate configuration errors config/config.go	Config.UnmarshalYAML flattens nested validation errors after strict unmarshalling.
Validation regression coverage config/*_test.go, notify/*/config_test.go	Tests expect YAML-wrapped validation errors and cover accumulated errors across notifiers and receivers.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 9be68

The change can still hide notifier configuration errors after a YAML type error, and some Slack configurations can panic during loading when relying on the global API URL fallback. This can produce incomplete diagnostics or prevent configuration loading, so the PR is not merge-ready until these paths are corrected.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 11.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 25 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: reporting all receiver validation errors instead of only the first.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the bug, implementation, tests, user-facing behavior, linked issues, release note, sign-off, and applicable checklist items. It is sufficiently complete.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation addresses issue #4990 by accumulating notifier unmarshal and validation errors within receivers and across receivers, while preserving previously collected YAML type errors.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to notifier error handling, validation-error normalization, configuration error flattening, and related tests. Global fallback validation remains explicitly out of scope.

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In `@config/config.go`:
- Line 392: Update the duplicate-receiver handling around the receiver
validation loops so it records the duplicate-name error without immediately
continuing; still process all notifier configuration loops for that receiver,
and do not add the duplicate receiver name to names.

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• config/config.go
• config/config_test.go
• config/notifiers.go
• config/notifiers_test.go
• notify/discord/config.go
• notify/incidentio/config.go
• notify/jira/config.go
• notify/mattermost/config.go
• notify/mattermost/config_test.go
• notify/msteams/config.go
• notify/msteamsv2/config.go
• notify/opsgenie/config.go
• notify/opsgenie/config_test.go
• notify/pagerduty/config.go
• notify/pagerduty/config_test.go
• notify/pushover/config.go
• notify/pushover/config_test.go
• notify/rocketchat/config.go
• notify/sns/config.go
• notify/sns/config_test.go
• notify/telegram/config.go
• notify/telegram/config_test.go
• notify/webhook/config.go
• notify/webhook/config_test.go

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[SoloJacobs]

I'm a little bit worried about the direction of this PR. It's making config/config.go even longer. And leaves most of the validation logic inside that big function. That's basically a no-go for me.

I'm also not sure that moving the Validate function is even necessary? The original PR looked really clean, so I would an explanation what we gain from that refactor.

So: I don't this issue can really be approached before some other work has been done on config/config.go.

[Bisman-Singh]

That is fair, and the numbers back you up: Config.UnmarshalYAML goes from 397 lines on main to 511 with my change, and config/config.go from 1027 to 1141. Making the big function bigger is the wrong direction.

On whether moving Validate() is necessary, it is, and not for tidiness. yaml.v2 aborts the whole decode the moment any UnmarshalYAML returns an error, so while validation runs inside the notifier unmarshalers no caller anywhere can collect more than one error. Minimal three-item repro, first two invalid:

error returned : invalid item "bad1"
items visited  : [bad1]  (len=1 of 3)

Items 2 and 3 are never visited. So #4990 and #4991 cannot be fixed while Validate() runs during unmarshaling, whatever shape the surrounding code takes. That is the only thing the move buys, and it is why #4992 splitting those Validate methods out was the prerequisite.

What I should have done instead of what I pushed: lift the per-receiver work, the global defaulting together with the validation calls, out of Config.UnmarshalYAML into a method on Receiver. The accumulation then lives in one small place and that function ends up shorter than the 397 it is on main today rather than longer. That would make this PR the config/config.go cleanup you are asking for rather than something that waits on it.

Happy to rework it that way here, or to close this and wait if you would rather own the restructure yourself and land it first. Your call, and either is fine by me.

[SoloJacobs]

Ok, well I'm glad we are both looking at the same problems. Just a warning upfront: I don't have a recommendation what the correct config structure should be. That's something that needs a lot of trial and error with different designs. Probably more something for us maintainers to tackle at some point (of course I will accept a PR, if I like what I see).

The first step for me would to look at the slack config, and see whether I could make things more consistent. That makes iteration faster, and then can be followed up with a proper PR for more integrations. Some things to watch out for:

• We don't have a good story for how to handle global values. And it's not clear what the correct approach should be.
• We want the all of the integration-specific code to live in one place, not a in a shared global.
• Everything should of course remain type-safe.
• Code-gen and other machinery is too sophisticated for 18 integrations and couple of yaml files.

[Bisman-Singh]

Reworked it, pushed as a new commit on top rather than a force push so you can diff against what you already read. Last commit is the one to look at.

I did not need to move Validate() after all. yaml.v2 keeps decoding when an UnmarshalYAML returns a *yaml.TypeError and reports them together, which is already how strict mode unknown field errors come out. So every notifier keeps validating inside its own UnmarshalYAML and just returns the error wrapped that way, and Config.UnmarshalYAML flattens the list back to plain errors, so a single error prints as today. config.go is +1/-1, UnmarshalYAML stays at 397 lines, the helpers sit in config/common next to your Validator interface. amtool on a four receiver config with three broken ones now prints all three where main stops at the first, and a validation error no longer hides a type error the decoder already found (the #4990 example does exactly that).

Not covered: "no global SMTP from set" and friends are produced in Config after decoding, so those still show on the next run. That is the globals question and I am leaving it to the restructure you described. So this closes #4990 and gets most of #4991.

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Inline comments:
In `@config/notifiers.go`:
- Line 351: Update SlackConfig.UnmarshalYAML so it does not call Validate while
APIURL is nil; defer validation until Config.UnmarshalYAML has applied global
Slack fallback values, or guard the validation path against a missing APIURL
before validating update_message.
- Line 108: Update each affected UnmarshalYAML method in
config/notifiers.go:108-108, :164-164, :220-220, :259-259, :285-285, :349-349,
:399-399, and :443-443, plus notify/discord/config.go:53-53,
notify/msteamsv2/config.go:46-46, notify/pagerduty/config.go:90-90,
notify/pushover/config.go:81-81, and notify/rocketchat/config.go:94-94, to
continue after *yaml.TypeError, run the existing normalization/defaulting and
validation, then merge the YAML and local errors; retain immediate returns for
non-recoverable errors. Ensure EmailConfig still normalizes headers and
PagerdutyConfig still applies defaults, and add a regression test covering
invalid send_resolved alongside a missing required notifier field.

In `@notify/webhook/config.go`:
- Line 58: Update each affected UnmarshalYAML method in
notify/webhook/config.go:58, notify/incidentio/config.go:67,
notify/jira/config.go:94, notify/mattermost/config.go:61 and :135 (including
MattermostField), notify/msteams/config.go:48, notify/opsgenie/config.go:69,
notify/sns/config.go:59, and notify/telegram/config.go:60 so validation still
runs after partial YAML decoding and its errors are appended to the existing
*yaml.TypeError.Errors before returning. Add mixed-error regression tests
covering every listed notifier type.

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• notify/incidentio/config.go
• notify/jira/config.go
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• notify/mattermost/config_test.go
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• notify/msteamsv2/config.go
• notify/opsgenie/config.go
• notify/pagerduty/config.go
• notify/pagerduty/config_test.go
• notify/pushover/config.go
• notify/pushover/config_test.go
• notify/rocketchat/config.go
• notify/sns/config.go
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• notify/telegram/config_test.go
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