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title: "Add a contact point | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to add a contact point to notify to when an alert fires."
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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).

# Add a contact point

A contact point defines where Grafana sends notifications when an alert fires. You can configure email, Slack, PagerDuty, webhooks, and many other integrations. For this path, you’ll create an email contact point.

To add a contact point, complete the following steps:

1. Add the following to your `alerts.tf` file:
   
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   ```hcl
   resource "grafana_contact_point" "email_alerts" {
     name = "Email alerts"
   
     email {
       addresses = ["<YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS>"]
     }
   }
   ```
2. Replace `<YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS>` with your email address.

## Alternative: Slack contact point

If you prefer Slack notifications, use the `slack` block instead:

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```hcl
resource "grafana_contact_point" "slack_alerts" {
  name = "Slack alerts"

  slack {
    url     = var.slack_webhook_url
    title   = "{{ .CommonLabels.alertname }}"
    text    = "{{ .CommonAnnotations.description }}"
  }
}
```

For the full list of supported integrations, refer to the [grafana\_contact\_point resource documentation](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/grafana/grafana/latest/docs/resources/contact_point).

In the next milestone, you add a notification policy to route alerts to this contact point.