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

Use the Grafana Alerting - Discord integration to receive alert notifications in your Discord channels when your Grafana alert rules are triggered and resolved.

## Before you begin

Create a Webhook to enable Grafana to send alert notifications to Discord channels. To create a Webhook in Discord, complete the following steps.

1. Follow the steps in the [Intro to Webhooks guide](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks).
2. Copy the Webhook URL.

## Procedure

To create your Discord 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 **Discord**.
5. In the **Webhook 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 Discord channel that you associated with the Webhook.
7. Click **Save contact point**.

## Next steps

The Discord 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**.