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Documentation Grafana documentation Alerting Manage your alert rules View the state and health of alert rules

View the state and health of alert rules

The state and health of alert rules helps 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.

To view the state and health of your alert rules:

1. Navigate to Alerting > Alert rules.
2. Click an alert rule to view its state, health and state history.

Alert rule state

An alert rule can be in either of the following states:

Note: Alerts will transition first to pending and then firing, 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.