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title: "Create a folder and add labels | Grafana Labs"
description: "Select a folder to organize your rule, then add a severity label."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Create a folder and add labels

You’ll organize your alert into a folder and add labels so the rule is easy to find and filter later. Labels can also feed notification policies when you set those up.

Folders organize alerts by team, service, or purpose, and control who can manage them.

In this milestone, you create a folder, then add a rule-level label.

1. In the **Add folder and labels** section, click **New folder** to open the create dialog.
2. Enter a folder name (for example, **Alerts**), then click **Create**. The folder is saved and selected for your rule.

You’ve created a folder for the rule. Next, add labels.

1. Click **Add labels** to open the labels editor. Labels are key-value tags that help you find and filter this alert. A sustained 5% error rate deserves the key **severity** and the value **critical**.
2. Add a label with the key **severity** and the value **critical**, then click **Save**.

Your alert now has a folder and a label. Next, you set how often the rule evaluates and how long the condition must last before the alert fires.