Resources
These documentation pages cover the concepts you practiced. Use them as a reference when creating your next alert rule.
Alert rules
The full anatomy of an alert rule, including all configuration options.
Queries and conditions
How alert rule queries work, expression types, and how the condition is evaluated.
Queries and conditions documentation
Alert rule evaluation
Lifecycle states, evaluation groups, pending period, and keep-firing-for.
Alert rule evaluation documentation
No-data and error handling
How Grafana handles missing data and query failures, and considerations for each option.
No-data and error handling documentation
Labels and annotations
How labels route notifications and how annotations provide responder context.
Labels and annotations documentation
Contact points
How contact points deliver notifications to integrations like email, Slack, and PagerDuty.