Create an email contact point

In this milestone, you’ll create an email contact point to ensure alerts are routed to the correct destination. The alert rule wizard assume you have a contact point defined, so this is a necessary prerequisite to the alert rule creation process—you’ll use this in milestone 9.

To create an email contact point, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to your Grafana Cloud environment.

2. Navigate to Alerting > Contact points in the Grafana Cloud navigation menu.

3. Click Add contact point.

4. Configure the contact point settings:

   • Enter a name for the contact point, for example learning-journey-notifications.
   • Select Email as the notification type.
   • Enter your email address where alerts should be sent.

5. Test the contact point to verify it works correctly:

   • Click Test to send a test notification.
   • Confirm the test email is received in your inbox.

6. Save the contact point.

In the next milestone, you’ll learn how to navigate from a dashboard visualization to create an alert rule.

More to explore (optional)

To read more about contact points and the different types of contact points available in Grafana alerting, you can explore the following paths:

Grafana alerting contact points