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Grafana Cloud Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2026-05-06

Alerting: Grafana-Managed Alerting is the default in new stacks

New Grafana Cloud stacks now use Grafana-Managed Alerting (GMA) by default — Datasource-Managed Alerting (DMA) is no longer provisioned in new stacks.

Scope: New stacks only. Existing stacks and existing DMA rules are unaffected. This is a provisioning-time change, not a migration.

The following products now create Grafana alert-rules and recording-rules by default in new stacks:

  • Synthetics Monitoring
  • Cloud integrations
  • Cloud providers
  • Kubernetes Monitoring
  • Asserts
  • SLOs

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