Observe and act

Alert and measure reliability

Alerting

Monitor alerts

View notification history

Grafana Cloud Enterprise Open source

View notification history

View notifications that Grafana Alerting sent for your Grafana-managed alert rules from one page. Confirm delivery, see which contact point received each notification, and debug failures.

Grafana records a notification event each time it attempts to send a notification to a contact point for a group of alerts. Both firing and resolved notifications are recorded, so you’ll see a complete delivery history even when an alert has already recovered.

Notification history is different from active notifications. Active notifications show alerts that are currently grouped and waiting to be sent. Notification history shows notifications that were already sent.

The History page also includes an Alert events tab for alert state history.

Note
Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise users must store notification history in Loki. Set enabled = true in the [unified_alerting.notification_history] section and configure the connection to Loki. Refer to Before you begin.

Before you begin

Notification history stores Alertmanager notification logs in Loki. In Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise, configure the connection to Loki in the [unified_alerting.notification_history] section of your Grafana configuration file:

[unified_alerting.notification_history]
# Enable the notification history functionality in Unified Alerting.
# Alertmanager notification logs will be stored in Loki.
enabled = true

# URL of the Loki instance.
loki_remote_url = http://localhost:3100

# Optional tenant ID to attach to requests sent to Loki.
loki_tenant_id =

# Optional basic authentication for requests sent to Loki.
loki_basic_auth_username =
loki_basic_auth_password =

Replace http://localhost:3100 with the URL of your Loki instance.

You can attach extra labels to every notification history record with the [unified_alerting.notification_history.external_labels] section.

In Grafana Cloud, notification history is managed for you. Contact support to enable it for your stack.

View from the History page

The History page shows notifications sent for all Grafana-managed alert rules. Filter by labels, status, contact point, and delivery outcome.

You can only view notification history for alert rules you have permission to access.

To view notification history from the History page, follow these steps.

Click Alerts & IRM > Alerting > History.
Select the Notifications tab.
Each row represents a notification sent to a contact point. The list shows the following columns:
- Time: When the notification was sent.
- Status: Whether the notification was for a Firing or Resolved alert.
- Group Labels: The labels that identify the group of alerts included in the notification.
- Contact point: The contact point and integration that received the notification.
Failed notifications are marked with a Failed badge. Hover over the badge to see the error details.
Filter the list to narrow down the results:
- Labels: Enter a label or click a label on a notification in the list.
- Status: Filter by Firing or Resolved.
- Delivery outcome: Show only successful or failed notifications.
- Contact point: Filter by contact point.
- Time range: Adjust the time range with the time picker.
Expand a row to see the alerts included in the notification, grouped into Firing Alerts and Resolved Alerts. Each alert shows its labels, annotations, summary, and description, and links to the alert rule that generated it.

View the details of a single notification

Select View on a notification row to open its detail page.

The detail page shows the full context of the notification, including the contact point and integration used, the delivery outcome, any error returned, and the complete list of firing and resolved alerts that were included.