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State and health of alerting rules
The state and health of alerting rules help you understand several key status indicators about your alerts.
There are three key components: alert rule state, alert instance state, and alert rule health. Although related, each component conveys subtly different information.
Alert rule state
An alert rule can be in either of the following states:
Note: Alerts will transition first to
pending
and thenfiring
, thus it will take at least two evaluation cycles before an alert is fired.
Alert instance state
An alert instance can be in either of the following states:
Alert rule health
An alert rule can have one the following health statuses:
Special alerts for NoData
and Error
When evaluation of an alerting rule produces state NoData
or Error
, Grafana Alerting will generate alert instances that have the following additional labels:
You can handle these alerts the same way as regular alerts by adding a silence, route to a contact point, and so on.