Section 1 · Journey overview
The five-step flow from creating a rule to a firing alert and the resolved notification that follows.
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How alerting works
The following diagram shows the five-step alerting flow.
Grafana Alerting monitors your data and notifies you when something needs attention. Here is the five-step flow:
| Step | What happens |
|---|
| 1 | You create a rule that defines what data to watch and when to alert |
| 2 | Grafana checks the rule at regular intervals |
| 3 | If the problem persists long enough, the alert fires |
| 4 | A notification is sent to a destination you configure (email, Slack, etc.) |
| 5 | When the problem clears, a “resolved” notification follows |
What you’ll build in this journey
By the end of this journey, you’ll have a working alert rule and a deeper understanding of how the alerting process functions in Grafana.
