What you'll learn, the sections of the alert rule editor you'll work through, and how long the journey takes.
Estimated time: 1 min
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