From ed6e4a936c116fe4e9822b9b5b247aa013012ef7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yorick van Pelt <yorick@yorickvanpelt.nl>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:07:24 +0100
Subject: nixos/alertmanager: provide example of envsubst usage

---
 nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix')

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix
index 3c9ca6c7d37..2e8433fbc88 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/alertmanager.nix
@@ -133,8 +133,10 @@ in {
         default = null;
         example = "/root/alertmanager.env";
         description = ''
-          File to load as environment file. Useful to insert secrets
-          into the configuration (via envsubst).
+          File to load as environment file. Environment variables
+          from this file will be interpolated into the config file
+          using envsubst with this syntax:
+          <literal>$ENVIRONMENT ''${VARIABLE}</literal>
         '';
       };
     };
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