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Documentation Grafana documentation Alerting Set up

Set up Alerting

Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting.

Note:

These are set-up instructions for Grafana Alerting Open Source.

Before you begin

• Configure your data sources
• Check which data sources are compatible with and supported by Grafana Alerting

Watch this short video to get started.

Set up Alerting

To set up Alerting, you need to:

1. Configure alert rules

   • Create Grafana-managed or Mimir/Loki-managed alert rules and recording rules

2. Configure contact points

   • Check the default contact point and update the email address

   • [Optional] Add new contact points and integrations

3. Configure notification policies

   • Check the default notification policy

   • [Optional] Add additional nested policies

   • [Optional] Add labels and label matchers to control alert routing

4. [Optional] Integrate with Grafana OnCall

Advanced set up options

Grafana Alerting supports many additional configuration options, from configuring external Alertmanagers to routing Grafana-managed alerts outside of Grafana, to defining your alerting setup as code.

The following topics provide you with advanced configuration options for Grafana Alerting.

• Provision alert rules using file provisioning
• Provision alert rules using Terraform
• Add an external Alertmanager
• Configure high availability