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    Section 5 of 6 Notifications and save
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Notifications and save

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Contact points

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How a contact point tells Grafana where to send notifications, and what the default message contains.

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Notification message

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How summary and description annotations give responders context before they open Grafana.

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Build your first alert rule

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Hands-on Path to build a complete alert rule on the QuickPizza demo app, from query to save.

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