Folders

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The folder you pick for an alert rule serves two purposes:

Organization: Groups the rule in the alert rules list so you and your team can find it later
Permissions: Controls who can view and edit rules inside it. Users with Edit permission on the folder can manage the rules in that folder.

Choose a folder

Pick an existing folder that matches how your team organizes work. If no existing folder fits, you can create one during alert rule setup.

If saving fails because of a name conflict, check whether a rule with the same name already exists in that folder.

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Labels for alert rules are:

Labels appear in your notifications so that whoever’s responding to the alert can immediately see which system, team, or environment is affected.

Labels on an alert rule come from three places:

Added by you (user-configured), such as severity=warning
Added by the data source query (query-returned), such as service_name=checkout
Added by Grafana (reserved), such as alertname and grafana_folder

Labels are a critical part of the alerting process for multiple reasons, including:

Notifications: Labels appear in every notification, which helps the responder identify what’s affected without opening Grafana
Organization: Labels help you filter and find alert rules in the rules list