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Last reviewed: August 19, 2026

Install the plugin

Prometheus Alerting is an app plugin. Install it like any other plugin from the Grafana plugin catalog, then enable it so it appears in the navigation.

Grafana Cloud

  1. Click Plugins and data > Plugins in the main menu.
  2. Search for Prometheus Alerting.
  3. Click the plugin, then click Install.

Grafana Cloud keeps the plugin up to date automatically.

Self-managed Grafana

Install the plugin with Grafana CLI:

Bash 
grafana cli plugins install grafana-prometheusalerting-app

Restart the Grafana server after the install finishes.

You can also install from the catalog in the UI, at Plugins and data > Plugins. This requires the Grafana server to have network access to grafana.com. For air-gapped installs, refer to Install a plugin in air-gapped environment.

Enable the plugin

An app plugin does nothing until it’s enabled.

  1. Click Plugins and data > Plugins in the main menu.
  2. Search for and click Prometheus Alerting.
  3. Click Enable.

The plugin then appears in the main menu. Which page opens first depends on what you have configured:

  • With an Alertmanager data source, you land on Alerts.
  • Without an Alertmanager but with a Prometheus-compatible rules source, you land on Rules.
  • With neither, you land on Alerts, which explains what’s missing.

Note

Enabling the plugin requires the Grafana Admin role. Using it afterwards doesn’t. Access to each page is controlled separately. Refer to Configure access control.

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