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Documentation Learning paths Deploy an alert rule with Terraform Add a contact point

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Deploy an alert rule with Terraform

17 min

Milestone 1

Business value

2 min

Milestone 2

Create a service account token

2 min

Milestone 3

Configure the Terraform provider

1 min

Milestone 4

Define a folder and a rule group

2 min

Milestone 5

Add a contact point

1 min

Milestone 6

Add a notification policy

2 min

Milestone 7

Run the Terraform plan

2 min

Milestone 8

Apply and verify

2 min

Milestone 9

Destination reached!

1 min

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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   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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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.

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

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Define a folder and a rule group

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Add a notification policy

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