diff --git a/examples/alertmanager-config.yaml b/examples/alertmanager-config.yaml
index b341b55f169a71236547468fecabe42ce625551b..87391e795f898623136cd51594468f5eaa6b35e9 100644
--- a/examples/alertmanager-config.yaml
+++ b/examples/alertmanager-config.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # external alertmanager yaml
 global:
   resolve_timeout: 10m
+  slack_api_url: url
 route:
   group_by: ['job']
   group_wait: 30s
@@ -13,3 +14,17 @@ route:
     receiver: 'null'
 receivers:
 - name: 'null'
+- name: slack
+slack_configs:
+- channel: '#alertmanager-testing'
+  send_resolved: true
+  title: '[{{ .Status | toUpper }}{{ if eq .Status "firing" }}:{{ .Alerts.Firing | len }}{{ end }}] Monitoring Event Notification'
+  text: |-
+    {{ range .Alerts }}
+      *Alert:* {{ .Annotations.summary }} - `{{ .Labels.severity }}`
+      *Description:* {{ .Annotations.description }}
+      *Graph:* <{{ .GeneratorURL }}|:chart_with_upwards_trend:> *Runbook:* <{{ .Annotations.runbook }}|:spiral_note_pad:>
+      *Details:*
+      {{ range .Labels.SortedPairs }} • *{{ .Name }}:* `{{ .Value }}`
+      {{ end }}
+    {{ end }}
diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/alertmanager/alertmanager.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/alertmanager/alertmanager.libsonnet
index 4f39af3975f3e9f59be69e25fca11d0d651fb281..320e8223c93e8208a4fffac9c1d2885764bda9ac 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/alertmanager/alertmanager.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/alertmanager/alertmanager.libsonnet
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ local k = import 'ksonnet/ksonnet.beta.4/k.libsonnet';
         .withStringData({ 'alertmanager.yaml': std.manifestYamlDoc($._config.alertmanager.config) }) +
         secret.mixin.metadata.withNamespace($._config.namespace)
       else
-        secret.new('alertmanager-' + $._config.alertmanager.name, { 'alertmanager.yaml': std.base64($._config.alertmanager.config) }) +
+        secret.new('alertmanager-' + $._config.alertmanager.name, {})
+        .withStringData({ 'alertmanager.yaml': $._config.alertmanager.config }) +
         secret.mixin.metadata.withNamespace($._config.namespace),
 
     serviceAccount: