Save and activate your alert rule

You’ve configured your query, conditions, evaluation behavior, labels, and notifications. Now it’s time to save your alert rule and make it active.

To save and activate your alert rule, complete the following steps:

1. Review your alert rule configuration:

   • Query: Returns the data you want to monitor.
   • Condition: Fires when your threshold is crossed.
   • Evaluation: Checks at your specified interval with your pending period.
   • Labels: Organize and route your alert.
   • Notifications: Deliver to your contact point.

2. Enter a descriptive Alert rule name at the top of the form.

   Use a name that clearly identifies what the alert monitors.

   For example:

   • High CPU usage - Linux servers
   • Error rate spike - API gateway
   • Disk space critical - Database servers

3. Click Save rule and exit in the upper right.

   Your alert rule is now saved and active. Grafana immediately begins evaluating it at your specified interval.

4. Verify your alert rule appears in the Alert rules list.

   Navigate to Alerts & IRM > Alerting > Alert rules and locate your new rule in its folder.

Your alert rule is saved and actively monitoring your infrastructure. Grafana is now evaluating your query at every interval you configured. When conditions are met and persist past your pending period, the alert will fire and notifications will be sent.

In the next milestone, you’ll learn how to check on your alert rule’s status and see its evaluation history.