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title: "Journey overview | Grafana Labs"
description: "What you'll learn, the sections of the alert rule editor you'll work through, and how long the journey takes."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Journey overview

### Who this journey is for

- Grafana Cloud users who are new to alerting.
- Teams who want to detect problems automatically.
- Users familiar with the Grafana Cloud interface who haven’t configured alert rules before or people who want to see how Grafana Alerting works in practice.

## What you’ll learn and do

You’ll build an alert rule that watches QuickPizza for HTTP 5xx server errors in the visual query builder. The journey walks through each section of the alert rule editor, one piece at a time.

| Section                       | What you’ll do                                                               |
|-------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Name and query**            | Name the rule, build a Prometheus query in Builder mode, and set a threshold |
| **Folder and labels**         | Organize the rule and add labels                                             |
| **Evaluation behavior**       | Configure how often the rule runs and how it handles gaps                    |
| **Notifications and save**    | Choose where notifications go, preview, and save the rule                    |
| **Create an alert with code** | Write the same kind of rule in Code mode, then add a silence                 |

## Estimated time

45-55 minutes