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Export alerting resources

Export your alerting resources, such as alert rules, contact points, and notification policies for provisioning, automatically importing single folders and single groups.

There are distinct methods to export your alerting resources:

• Grafana UI exports in Terraform format and YAML or JSON formats for file provisioning.
• HTTP Alerting API exports in JSON API format used by the HTTP Alerting API.
• HTTP Alerting API - Export endpoints exports in YAML or JSON formats for file provisioning.

Export from the Grafana UI

The export options listed below enable you to download resources in YAML, JSON, or Terraform format, facilitating their provisioning through configuration files or Terraform.

Export alert rules

To export alert rules from the Grafana UI, complete the following steps.

1. Click Alerts & IRM -> Alert rules.

2. To export all Grafana-managed rules, click Export rules.

3. To export a folder, change the View as to List.

4. Select the folder you want to export and click the Export rules folder icon.

5. To export a group, change the View as to Grouped.

6. Find the group you want to export and click the Export rule group icon.

7. Choose the format to export in.

   The exported alert rule data appears in different formats - YAML, JSON, Terraform.

8. Click Copy Code or Download.

Modify alert rule and export rule group without saving changes

Use the Modify export mode to edit and export an alert rule without updating it. The exported data includes all alert rules within the same alert group.

To export a modified alert rule without saving the modifications, complete the following steps from the Grafana UI.

1. Click Alerts & IRM -> Alert rules.

2. Locate the alert rule you want to edit and click More -> Modify Export to open the Alert Rule form.

3. From the Alert Rule form, edit the fields you want to change. Changes made are not applied to the alert rule.

4. Click Export.

5. Choose the format to export in.

   The exported alert rule group appears in different formats - YAML, JSON, Terraform.

6. Click Copy Code or Download.

Export a new alert rule definition without saving changes

Add a new alert rule definition to an existing provisioned rule group rather than creating the code manually. You can then copy it to your Terraform pipeline, and quickly deploy and manage alert rules as part of your infrastructure as code.

An alert rule definition differs from an alert rule in the sense that you define your alert rule, but you do not save it. It only becomes a saved alert rule once you provision it using Terraform.

To export your alert rule definition into Terraform (HCL) format, complete the following steps.

1. Click Alerts & IRM -> Alert rules.
2. Click Export rule definition.
3. Fill out the alert rule details.
4. Choose a provisioned folder and group to add your alert rule definition to.
5. Click Export.
6. Copy and paste the code into your Terraform pipeline to create your new alert rule.

Export contact points

To export contact points from the Grafana UI, complete the following steps.

1. Click Alerts & IRM -> Contact points.

2. Find the contact point you want to export and click More -> Export.

3. Choose the format to export in.

   The exported contact point appears in different formats - YAML, JSON, Terraform.

4. Click Copy Code or Download.

Export notification template groups

Grafana currently doesn’t offer an Export UI or Export endpoint for notification template groups, unlike other Alerting resources presented in this documentation.

However, you can export it by manually copying the content and name of the notification template group from the Grafana UI.

1. Click Alerts & IRM -> Contact points -> Notification templates tab.
2. Find the notification template group you want to export.
3. Copy the content and name.
4. Adjust it for the file provisioning format or Terraform resource.

Export the notification policy tree

All notification policies are provisioned through a single resource: the root of the notification policy tree.

To export the notification policy tree from the Grafana UI, complete the following steps.

1. Click Alerts & IRM -> Notification policies.

2. In the Default notification policy section, click … -> Export.

3. Choose the format to export in.

   The exported contact point appears in different formats - YAML, JSON, Terraform.

4. Click Copy Code or Download.

Export mute timings

To export mute timings from the Grafana UI, complete the following steps.

1. Click Alerts & IRM -> Notification policies, and then the Mute timings tab.

2. Find the mute timing you want to export and click Export.

3. Choose the format to export in.

   The exported contact point appears in different formats - YAML, JSON, Terraform.

4. Click Copy Code or Download.

HTTP Alerting API

You can use the Alerting HTTP API to return existing alerting resources in JSON and import them to another Grafana instance using the same endpoint.

However, note the standard endpoints return a JSON format that is not compatible for provisioning through configuration files or Terraform, except the /export endpoints listed below.

Export API endpoints

The Alerting HTTP API provides specific endpoints for exporting alerting resources in YAML or JSON, facilitating provisioning via configuration files, or Terraform (HCL).

These endpoints accept a download parameter to download a file containing the exported resources.