$ oc -n openshift-monitoring get cm cluster-monitoring-config -oyaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
  config.yaml: |
    enableUserWorkload: true
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2023-08-17T06:02:36Z"
  name: cluster-monitoring-config
  namespace: openshift-monitoring
  resourceVersion: "259151"
  uid: a9365c21-5c1d-4c91-98ee-f074b023dd31

$ oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring get cm user-workload-monitoring-config -oyaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
  config.yaml: |
    alertmanager:
      enabled: true
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2023-08-17T06:02:44Z"
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: cluster-monitoring-operator
    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: openshift-monitoring
  name: user-workload-monitoring-config
  namespace: openshift-user-workload-monitoring
  resourceVersion: "148193"
  uid: b3c6e5a6-ff7b-4ae4-85eb-28be683119e4

$ oc -n openshift-user-workload-monitoring get pod
NAME                                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
alertmanager-user-workload-0           6/6     Running   0          4h50m
alertmanager-user-workload-1           6/6     Running   0          4h50m
prometheus-operator-77bcdcbd9c-7nt6v   2/2     Running   0          6h14m
prometheus-user-workload-0             6/6     Running   0          6h14m
prometheus-user-workload-1             6/6     Running   0          6h14m
thanos-ruler-user-workload-0           4/4     Running   0          4h50m
thanos-ruler-user-workload-1           4/4     Running   0          4h50m

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: ns1
---
apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: PrometheusRule
metadata:
  name: example-alert
  namespace: ns1
spec:
  groups:
  - name: example
    rules:
    - alert: TestAlert
      expr: vector(1)
      labels:
        severity: none
      annotations:
        message: This is an alert meant to ensure that the entire alerting pipeline is functional.

$ token=`oc create token prometheus-k8s -n openshift-monitoring`
$ oc -n openshift-monitoring exec -c prometheus prometheus-k8s-0 -- curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" 'https://alertmanager-user-workload.openshift-user-workload-monitoring.svc:9095/api/v2/alerts' | jq
[
  {
    "annotations": {
      "message": "This is an alert meant to ensure that the entire alerting pipeline is functional."
    },
    "endsAt": "2023-08-17T12:08:41.558Z",
    "fingerprint": "348490d73f8513a0",
    "receivers": [
      {
        "name": "Default"
      }
    ],
    "startsAt": "2023-08-17T12:04:11.558Z",
    "status": {
      "inhibitedBy": [],
      "silencedBy": [],
      "state": "active"
    },
    "updatedAt": "2023-08-17T12:04:41.583Z",
    "generatorURL": "https://thanos-querier-openshift-monitoring.apps.***/api/graph?g0.expr=vector%281%29&g0.tab=1",
    "labels": {
      "alertname": "TestAlert",
      "namespace": "ns1",
      "severity": "none"
    }
  }
] 

##### login with common user, deploy pod to project is only for we can use curl command
# oc login https://${api_server}:6443 -u ${user} -p ${password}
# oc new-project test
# oc -n test new-app rails-postgresql-example
# oc -n test get pod
NAME                                  READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
postgresql-1-deploy                   0/1     Completed   0          13m
postgresql-1-v4lz5                    1/1     Running     0          13m
rails-postgresql-example-1-build      0/1     Completed   0          13m
rails-postgresql-example-1-crdbq      1/1     Running     0          9m20s
rails-postgresql-example-1-deploy     0/1     Completed   0          9m42s
rails-postgresql-example-1-hook-pre   0/1     Completed   0          9m39s
# token=`oc whoami -t`
# echo $token
sha256~EJCVjflM6lbsl8plKkU7Hv0swkQMxySJr5BGXRJaKhU 

# oc -n test exec postgresql-1-v4lz5 -- curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" 'https://alertmanager-user-workload.openshift-user-workload-monitoring.svc:9095/api/v2/alerts'  | jq
[
  {
    "annotations": {
      "message": "This is an alert meant to ensure that the entire alerting pipeline is functional."
    },
    "endsAt": "2023-08-17T12:16:56.558Z",
    "fingerprint": "348490d73f8513a0",
    "receivers": [
      {
        "name": "Default"
      }
    ],
    "startsAt": "2023-08-17T12:04:11.558Z",
    "status": {
      "inhibitedBy": [],
      "silencedBy": [],
      "state": "active"
    },
    "updatedAt": "2023-08-17T12:12:56.563Z",
    "generatorURL": "https://thanos-querier-openshift-monitoring.apps.***/api/graph?g0.expr=vector%281%29&g0.tab=1",
    "labels": {
      "alertname": "TestAlert",
      "namespace": "ns1",
      "severity": "none"
    }
  }
] 

4.14.0-0.nightly-2023-08-16-114741

always

1. see the description

common user can view UWM alertmanager alerts

if this is expected, we could close the bug