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title: "View active notifications | Grafana documentation"
description: "The Active notifications view lists grouped alerts that are actively triggering notifications."
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# View active notifications

The Active notifications page lists groups of alerts (or alert instances) that are actively triggering notifications.

By default, Grafana Alerting [groups similar alerts into a single notification](/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/group-alert-notifications/).

In this view, you can:

- Find alert groups and the state of their notifications.
- Filter for alert instances that match specific criteria.

The Active notifications view is useful for debugging and verifying how notifications are grouped based on your notification policy settings.

## View alert groups and notification state

To view alert groups, complete the following steps.

1. Click **Alerts & IRM** -> **Alerting** -> **Alert activity**.
2. Select the **Active notifications** tab to view the list of groups firing notifications.
   
   [](/media/docs/alerting/active-notifications-view2.png)
   
   By default, alert groups are grouped by the notification policies grouping.
   
   Each group displays its label set, contact point, and the number of alert instances (or alerts).
   
   Then, click on a group to access its alert instances. You can find alert instances by their label set and view their notification state.

### Notification states

The notification state of an alert instance can be in one of the following states:

- **Unprocessed**: The alert is received but its notification has not been processed yet.
- **Suppressed**: The alert has been silenced.
- **Active**: The alert notification has been handled. The alert is still firing and continues to be managed.

### Filter alerts

You can filter by label, state, or Alertmanager:

- **By label**: In **Search**, enter an existing label to view alerts matching the label. For example, `environment=production,region=~US|EU,severity!=warning`.
- **By state**: In **States**, select from Active, Suppressed, or Unprocessed states to view alerts matching your selected state. All other alerts are hidden.
- **By Alertmanager**: In the **Alertmanager** dropdown, select an [external Alertmanager](/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/set-up/configure-alertmanager/) to view only alert groups for that specific Alertmanager. By default, the `Grafana` Alertmanager is selected.

### Custom group

From **Custom group by** dropdown, select a combination of labels to view a grouping other than the default. This helps validate the [grouping settings of your notification policies](/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/fundamentals/notifications/group-alert-notifications/).

If an alert does not contain labels specified either in the grouping of the default policy or the custom grouping, then the alert is added to a catch all group with a header of `No grouping`.

## View notification errors

> Note
> 
> Notification errors are only available with [pre-configured Grafana Alertmanagers](/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/set-up/configure-alertmanager/).

Notification errors provide information about why they failed to be sent or were not received.

To view notification errors, navigate to **Alerts & IRM** -> **Alerting** -> **Notification configuration**, then select the **Contact points** tab.

Each contact point displays a message about the status of their latest notification deliveries.

If a contact point is failing, a red message indicates that there are errors delivering notifications. Hover over the error message to see the notification error details.