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title: "Configure Google Chat for Alerting | Grafana documentation"
description: "Configure the Google Chat integration to receive notifications when your alerts are firing"
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# Configure Google Chat for Alerting

Use the Grafana Alerting - Google Chat integration to receive alert notifications in your Google Chat space when your Grafana alert rules are triggered and resolved.

## Before you begin

Create a Webhook to enable Grafana to send alert notifications to a Google Chat space. To create a Webhook in Google Chat space, complete the following steps.

1. Follow the steps in [Google’s Chat app guide](https://developers.google.com/workspace/chat/quickstart/webhooks#create_a_webhook).
2. Copy the Webhook URL.

## Procedure

To create your Google Chat integration in Grafana Alerting, complete the following steps.

1. Navigate to **Alerts & IRM** -> **Alerting** -> **Notification configuration**, then select the **Contact points** tab.
2. Click **+ Add contact point**.
3. Enter a contact point name.
4. From the Integration list, select **Google Chat**.
5. In the **URL** field, paste in your Webhook URL.
6. Click **Test** to check that your integration works.
   
   \** For Grafana Alertmanager only.\**
   
   A test alert notification should be sent to the Google Chat space that you associated with the Webhook.
7. Click **Save contact point**.

## Next steps

The Google Chat contact point is ready to receive alert notifications.

To add this contact point to your alert, complete the following steps.

1. In Grafana, navigate to **Alerting** > **Alert rules**.
2. Edit or create a new alert rule.
3. Scroll down to the **Configure labels and notifications** section.
4. Under **Notifications** click **Select contact point**.
5. From the drop-down menu, select the previously created contact point.
6. Click **Save rule and exit**.