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Test a contact point
For Grafana managed contact points, you can send a test notification which helps verify a contact point is configured correctly.
To send a test notification:
- In the Grafana side bar, hover your cursor over the Alerting (bell) icon and then click Contact points.
- Find the contact point to test, then click Edit (pen icon). You can also create a new contact point if needed.
- Click Test (paper airplane icon) to open the contact point testing modal.
- Choose whether to send a predefined test notification or choose custom to add your own custom annotations and labels to include in the notification.
- Click Send test notification to fire the alert.
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