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title: "Declare incidents from firing alerts | Grafana documentation"
description: "Declare an incident from a firing alert"
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# Declare incidents from firing alerts

Declare an incident from a firing alert to streamline your alert to incident workflow.

## Before you begin

- Ensure you have [Grafana Incident](/docs/grafana-cloud/incident/) installed.
- You must have a firing alert.

## Procedure

To declare an incident from a firing alert, complete the following steps.

1. Navigate to **Alerts & IRM** -> **Alerting** -> **Alert rules**.
2. From the Alert rules page, click the **Firing** filter to display firing alerts. Find the firing alert that you want to declare an incident for.
3. Click **More** -> **Declare Incident**.
   
   Alternatively, you can declare an incident from the Alert details page.
   
   The **Declare Incident** pop-up opens in the Grafana Incident application.
4. In the **Declare Incident** pop-up, enter the **What’s going on?** field.
   
   This field is pre-filled with the name of the alert rule, but you can edit it as required.
   
   The alert rule is also linked to the incident.
5. Select a severity.
6. Add labels, as required.
7. Click **More options** to include a channel prefix and status.
8. Click **Automated options** to enable automated actions configured by admins.
9. Click **Declare Incident**.

## Next steps

View and manage the incident in the **Grafana Incident** application.

[](/media/docs/alerting/incident-response-management-timeline-ui.png)

For more information, refer to the [Grafana Incident documentation](/docs/grafana-cloud/incident/configure-settings/).