vmalert: fix notifiers page in web UI being invisible

- storage-only flags are moved to vmstorage/main.go
- vmsingle-specific initializations are moved to the very end of Init() func
- make force-merge goroutine return in case of error

These changes reduce diff with cluster vmstorage.

Signed-off-by: Artem Fetishev <rtm@victoriametrics.com>

app/victoria-metrics/main.go

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/procutil"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/promscrape"
 	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/pushmetrics"
-	"github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/lib/storage"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -30,21 +29,11 @@ var (
 	useProxyProtocol = flagutil.NewArrayBool("httpListenAddr.useProxyProtocol", "Whether to use proxy protocol for connections accepted at the corresponding -httpListenAddr . "+
 		"See https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy-protocol.txt . "+
 		"With enabled proxy protocol http server cannot serve regular /metrics endpoint. Use -pushmetrics.url for metrics pushing")
-	minScrapeInterval = flag.Duration("dedup.minScrapeInterval", 0, "Leave only the last sample in every time series per each discrete interval "+
-		"equal to -dedup.minScrapeInterval > 0. See also -streamAggr.dedupInterval and https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/#deduplication")
 	dryRun = flag.Bool("dryRun", false, "Whether to check config files without running VictoriaMetrics. The following config files are checked: "+
 		"-promscrape.config, -relabelConfig and -streamAggr.config. Unknown config entries aren't allowed in -promscrape.config by default. "+
 		"This can be changed with -promscrape.config.strictParse=false command-line flag")
-	inmemoryDataFlushInterval = flag.Duration("inmemoryDataFlushInterval", 5*time.Second, "The interval for guaranteed saving of in-memory data to disk. "+
-		"The saved data survives unclean shutdowns such as OOM crash, hardware reset, SIGKILL, etc. "+
-		"Bigger intervals may help increase the lifetime of flash storage with limited write cycles (e.g. Raspberry PI). "+
-		"Smaller intervals increase disk IO load. Minimum supported value is 1s")
 	maxIngestionRate = flag.Int("maxIngestionRate", 0, "The maximum number of samples vmsingle can receive per second. Data ingestion is paused when the limit is exceeded. "+
 		"By default there are no limits on samples ingestion rate.")
-	finalDedupScheduleInterval = flag.Duration("storage.finalDedupScheduleCheckInterval", time.Hour, "The interval for checking when final deduplication process should be started."+
-		"Storage unconditionally adds 25% jitter to the interval value on each check evaluation."+
-		" Changing the interval to the bigger values may delay downsampling, deduplication for historical data."+
-		" See also https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/#deduplication")
 )
 
 func main() {
@@ -87,12 +76,6 @@ func main() {
 	}
 	logger.Infof("starting VictoriaMetrics at %q...", listenAddrs)
 	startTime := time.Now()
-	storage.SetDedupInterval(*minScrapeInterval)
-	storage.SetDataFlushInterval(*inmemoryDataFlushInterval)
-	if *finalDedupScheduleInterval < time.Hour {
-		logger.Fatalf("-dedup.finalDedupScheduleCheckInterval cannot be smaller than 1 hour; got %s", *finalDedupScheduleInterval)
-	}
-	storage.SetFinalDedupScheduleInterval(*finalDedupScheduleInterval)
 	vmstorage.Init(promql.ResetRollupResultCacheIfNeeded)
 	vmselect.Init()
 	vminsertcommon.StartIngestionRateLimiter(*maxIngestionRate)

app/vmalert/web.qtpl

@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
                 typeK, ns := keys[i], targets[notifier.TargetType(keys[i])]
                 count := len(ns)
             %}
-            <div class="w-100 flex-column vm-group">
+            <div class="w-100 flex-column">
                 <span class="d-flex justify-content-between" id="group-{%s typeK %}">
                     <a href="#group-{%s typeK %}">{%s typeK %} ({%d count %})</a>
                     <span
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
                 <div id="item-{%s typeK %}" class="collapse show">
                     <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-sm">
                         <thead>
-                            <tr class="vm-item">
+                            <tr>
                                 <th scope="col">Labels</th>
                                 <th scope="col">Address</th>
                             </tr>

app/vmalert/web.qtpl.go

@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ func StreamListTargets(qw422016 *qt422016.Writer, r *http.Request, targets map[n
 
 //line app/vmalert/web.qtpl:350
 			qw422016.N().S(`
-            <div class="w-100 flex-column vm-group">
+            <div class="w-100 flex-column">
                 <span class="d-flex justify-content-between" id="group-`)
 //line app/vmalert/web.qtpl:352
 			qw422016.E().S(typeK)
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ func StreamListTargets(qw422016 *qt422016.Writer, r *http.Request, targets map[n
 			qw422016.N().S(`" class="collapse show">
                     <table class="table table-striped table-hover table-sm">
                         <thead>
-                            <tr class="vm-item">
+                            <tr>
                                 <th scope="col">Labels</th>
                                 <th scope="col">Address</th>
                             </tr>

app/vmstorage/main.go

@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ var (
 	retentionTimezoneOffset = flag.Duration("retentionTimezoneOffset", 0, "The offset for performing indexdb rotation. "+
 		"If set to 0, then the indexdb rotation is performed at 4am UTC time per each -retentionPeriod. "+
 		"If set to 2h, then the indexdb rotation is performed at 4am EET time (the timezone with +2h offset)")
+	minScrapeInterval = flag.Duration("dedup.minScrapeInterval", 0, "Leave only the last sample in every time series per each discrete interval "+
+		"equal to -dedup.minScrapeInterval > 0. See also -streamAggr.dedupInterval and https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/#deduplication")
+	inmemoryDataFlushInterval = flag.Duration("inmemoryDataFlushInterval", 5*time.Second, "The interval for guaranteed saving of in-memory data to disk. "+
+		"The saved data survives unclean shutdowns such as OOM crash, hardware reset, SIGKILL, etc. "+
+		"Bigger intervals may help increase the lifetime of flash storage with limited write cycles (e.g. Raspberry PI). "+
+		"Smaller intervals increase disk IO load. Minimum supported value is 1s")
 
 	logNewSeries = flag.Bool("logNewSeries", false, "Whether to log new series. This option is for debug purposes only. It can lead to performance issues "+
 		"when big number of new series are ingested into VictoriaMetrics")
@@ -68,6 +74,11 @@ var (
 
 	minFreeDiskSpaceBytes = flagutil.NewBytes("storage.minFreeDiskSpaceBytes", 100e6, "The minimum free disk space at -storageDataPath after which the storage stops accepting new data")
 
+	finalDedupScheduleInterval = flag.Duration("storage.finalDedupScheduleCheckInterval", time.Hour, "The interval for checking when final deduplication process should be started."+
+		"Storage unconditionally adds 25% jitter to the interval value on each check evaluation."+
+		" Changing the interval to the bigger values may delay downsampling, deduplication for historical data."+
+		" See also https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/#deduplication")
+
 	cacheSizeStorageTSID = flagutil.NewBytes("storage.cacheSizeStorageTSID", 0, "Overrides max size for storage/tsid cache. "+
 		"See https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/#cache-tuning")
 	cacheSizeStorageMetricName = flagutil.NewBytes("storage.cacheSizeStorageMetricName", 0, "Overrides max size for storage/metricName cache. "+
@@ -111,11 +122,16 @@ func Init(resetCacheIfNeeded func(mrs []storage.MetricRow)) {
 		logger.Fatalf("invalid `-precisionBits`: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	resetResponseCacheIfNeeded = resetCacheIfNeeded
+	storage.SetDedupInterval(*minScrapeInterval)
+	storage.SetDataFlushInterval(*inmemoryDataFlushInterval)
 	storage.LegacySetRetentionTimezoneOffset(*retentionTimezoneOffset)
 	storage.SetFreeDiskSpaceLimit(minFreeDiskSpaceBytes.N)
 	storage.SetTSIDCacheSize(cacheSizeStorageTSID.IntN())
 	storage.SetTagFiltersCacheSize(cacheSizeIndexDBTagFilters.IntN())
+	if *finalDedupScheduleInterval < time.Hour {
+		logger.Fatalf("-storage.finalDedupScheduleCheckInterval cannot be smaller than 1 hour; got %s", *finalDedupScheduleInterval)
+	}
+	storage.SetFinalDedupScheduleInterval(*finalDedupScheduleInterval)
 	storage.SetMetricNamesStatsCacheSize(cacheSizeMetricNamesStats.IntN())
 	storage.SetMetricNameCacheSize(cacheSizeStorageMetricName.IntN())
 	storage.SetMetadataStorageSize(metadataStorageSize.IntN())
@@ -134,9 +150,9 @@ func Init(resetCacheIfNeeded func(mrs []storage.MetricRow)) {
 	if *idbPrefillStart > 23*time.Hour {
 		logger.Panicf("-storage.idbPrefillStart cannot exceed 23 hours; got %s", idbPrefillStart)
 	}
+	fs.RegisterPathFsMetrics(*storageDataPath)
 	logger.Infof("opening storage at %q with -retentionPeriod=%s", *storageDataPath, retentionPeriod)
 	startTime := time.Now()
-	WG = syncwg.WaitGroup{}
 	opts := storage.OpenOptions{
 		Retention:                   retentionPeriod.Duration(),
 		FutureRetention:             futureRetention.Duration(),
@@ -149,7 +165,6 @@ func Init(resetCacheIfNeeded func(mrs []storage.MetricRow)) {
 		LogNewSeries:                *logNewSeries,
 	}
 	strg := storage.MustOpenStorage(*storageDataPath, opts)
-	Storage = strg
 	initStaleSnapshotsRemover(strg)
 
 	var m storage.Metrics
@@ -168,7 +183,10 @@ func Init(resetCacheIfNeeded func(mrs []storage.MetricRow)) {
 		writeStorageMetrics(w, strg)
 	})
 	metrics.RegisterSet(storageMetrics)
-	fs.RegisterPathFsMetrics(*storageDataPath)
+
+	WG = syncwg.WaitGroup{}
+	resetResponseCacheIfNeeded = resetCacheIfNeeded
+	Storage = strg
 }
 
 var storageMetrics *metrics.Set
@@ -340,6 +358,7 @@ func RequestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 			startTime := time.Now()
 			if err := Storage.ForceMergePartitions(partitionNamePrefix); err != nil {
 				logger.Errorf("error in forced merge for partition_prefix=%q: %s", partitionNamePrefix, err)
+				return
 			}
 			logger.Infof("forced merge for partition_prefix=%q has been successfully finished in %.3f seconds", partitionNamePrefix, time.Since(startTime).Seconds())
 		}()
@@ -353,6 +372,7 @@ func RequestHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) bool {
 		Storage.DebugFlush()
 		return true
 	}
+
 	if path == "/internal/log_new_series" {
 		if !httpserver.CheckAuthFlag(w, r, logNewSeriesAuthKey) {
 			return true

docs/victoriametrics/changelog/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ See also [LTS releases](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/lts-rel
 
 * FEATURE: [vmagent](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmagent/), [vmsingle](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/single-server-victoriametrics/) and `vminsert` in [VictoriaMetrics cluster](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/cluster-victoriametrics/): add `-opentelemetry.promoteAllResourceAttributes` and `-opentelemetry.promoteScopeMetadata` command-line flags to allow managing label promotion for resource attributes and OTel scope metadata. See [OpenTelemetry](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/integrations/opentelemetry/) docs and [#10931](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/10931).
 
+* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/vmalert/): fix notifiers page in web UI being invisible. See [#11035](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/11035).
+ 
 ## [v1.144.0](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.144.0)
 
 Released at 2026-05-22