diff --git a/.betterer.results b/.betterer.results
index f21634e845d..f05cafeefa0 100644
--- a/.betterer.results
+++ b/.betterer.results
@@ -2481,9 +2481,6 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "6"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "7"]
     ],
-    "public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rulerClient.ts:5381": [
-      [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"]
-    ],
     "public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rules.ts:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "0"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "1"],
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/Analytics.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/Analytics.ts
index f96e20cd918..93101ec6250 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/Analytics.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/Analytics.ts
@@ -240,14 +240,6 @@ export function trackRulesSearchComponentInteraction(filter: keyof RulesFilter)
 export function trackRulesListViewChange(payload: { view: string }) {
   reportInteraction('grafana_alerting_rules_list_mode', { ...payload });
 }
-export function trackSwitchToSimplifiedRouting() {
-  reportInteraction('grafana_alerting_switch_to_simplified_routing');
-}
-
-export function trackSwitchToPoliciesRouting() {
-  reportInteraction('grafana_alerting_switch_to_policies_routing');
-}
-
 export function trackEditInputWithTemplate() {
   reportInteraction('grafana_alerting_contact_point_form_edit_input_with_template');
 }
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudOnlyAllowed.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudOnlyAllowed.test.tsx
index 10f71e526d3..724ce2bed77 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudOnlyAllowed.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudOnlyAllowed.test.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { PromApiFeatures, PromApplication } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto
 import { searchFolders } from '../../manage-dashboards/state/actions';
 
 import { discoverFeatures } from './api/buildInfo';
-import { fetchRulerRules, fetchRulerRulesGroup, fetchRulerRulesNamespace, setRulerRuleGroup } from './api/ruler';
+import { fetchRulerRules, fetchRulerRulesGroup, fetchRulerRulesNamespace } from './api/ruler';
 import { ExpressionEditorProps } from './components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor';
 import { grantUserPermissions, mockDataSource, MockDataSourceSrv } from './mocks';
 import { fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet } from './state/actions';
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ const mocks = {
   api: {
     discoverFeatures: jest.mocked(discoverFeatures),
     fetchRulerRulesGroup: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesGroup),
-    setRulerRuleGroup: jest.mocked(setRulerRuleGroup),
     fetchRulerRulesNamespace: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesNamespace),
     fetchRulerRules: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRules),
     fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet),
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudRules.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudRules.test.tsx
index 307bf53b438..6465ba48b86 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudRules.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorCloudRules.test.tsx
@@ -1,23 +1,18 @@
 import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
-import * as React from 'react';
 import { renderRuleEditor, ui } from 'test/helpers/alertingRuleEditor';
 import { clickSelectOption } from 'test/helpers/selectOptionInTest';
-import { screen, waitFor, waitForElementToBeRemoved } from 'test/test-utils';
+import { screen, waitForElementToBeRemoved } from 'test/test-utils';
 
 import { selectors } from '@grafana/e2e-selectors';
-import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types';
 
-import { searchFolders } from '../../manage-dashboards/state/actions';
-
-import { fetchRulerRules, fetchRulerRulesGroup, fetchRulerRulesNamespace, setRulerRuleGroup } from './api/ruler';
 import { ExpressionEditorProps } from './components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor';
-import { mockFeatureDiscoveryApi, setupMswServer } from './mockApi';
-import { grantUserPermissions, mockDataSource } from './mocks';
-import { emptyExternalAlertmanagersResponse, mockAlertmanagersResponse } from './mocks/alertmanagerApi';
-import { fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet } from './state/actions';
-import { setupDataSources } from './testSetup/datasources';
-import { buildInfoResponse } from './testSetup/featureDiscovery';
+import { setupMswServer } from './mockApi';
+import { grantUserPermissions } from './mocks';
+import { GROUP_3, NAMESPACE_2 } from './mocks/mimirRulerApi';
+import { mimirDataSource } from './mocks/server/configure';
+import { MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID } from './mocks/server/constants';
+import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from './mocks/server/events';
 
 jest.mock('./components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor', () => ({
   // eslint-disable-next-line react/display-name
@@ -26,54 +21,17 @@ jest.mock('./components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor', () => ({
   ),
 }));
 
-jest.mock('./api/ruler');
 jest.mock('../../../../app/features/manage-dashboards/state/actions');
 
-jest.mock('./components/rule-editor/util', () => {
-  const originalModule = jest.requireActual('./components/rule-editor/util');
-  return {
-    ...originalModule,
-    getThresholdsForQueries: jest.fn(() => ({})),
-  };
-});
-
-const dataSources = {
-  default: mockDataSource({ type: 'prometheus', name: 'Prom', isDefault: true }, { alerting: true }),
-};
-
 jest.mock('app/core/components/AppChrome/AppChromeUpdate', () => ({
   AppChromeUpdate: ({ actions }: { actions: React.ReactNode }) => <div>{actions}</div>,
 }));
 
-setupDataSources(dataSources.default);
-
-const server = setupMswServer();
-
-mockFeatureDiscoveryApi(server).discoverDsFeatures(dataSources.default, buildInfoResponse.mimir);
-mockAlertmanagersResponse(server, emptyExternalAlertmanagersResponse);
-
-// these tests are rather slow because we have to wait for various API calls and mocks to be called
-// and wait for the UI to be in particular states, drone seems to time out quite often so
-// we're increasing the timeout here to remove the flakey-ness of this test
-// ideally we'd move this to an e2e test but it's quite involved to set up the test environment
-jest.setTimeout(60 * 1000);
-
-const mocks = {
-  searchFolders: jest.mocked(searchFolders),
-  api: {
-    fetchRulerRulesGroup: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesGroup),
-    setRulerRuleGroup: jest.mocked(setRulerRuleGroup),
-    fetchRulerRulesNamespace: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesNamespace),
-    fetchRulerRules: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRules),
-    fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet),
-  },
-};
+setupMswServer();
+mimirDataSource();
 
 describe('RuleEditor cloud', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
-    jest.clearAllMocks();
-    contextSrv.isEditor = true;
-    contextSrv.hasEditPermissionInFolders = true;
     grantUserPermissions([
       AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleRead,
       AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleUpdate,
@@ -88,28 +46,6 @@ describe('RuleEditor cloud', () => {
   });
 
   it('can create a new cloud alert', async () => {
-    mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup.mockResolvedValue();
-    mocks.api.fetchRulerRulesNamespace.mockResolvedValue([]);
-    mocks.api.fetchRulerRulesGroup.mockResolvedValue({
-      name: 'group2',
-      rules: [],
-    });
-    mocks.api.fetchRulerRules.mockResolvedValue({
-      namespace1: [
-        {
-          name: 'group1',
-          rules: [],
-        },
-      ],
-      namespace2: [
-        {
-          name: 'group2',
-          rules: [],
-        },
-      ],
-    });
-    mocks.searchFolders.mockResolvedValue([]);
-
     const user = userEvent.setup();
 
     renderRuleEditor();
@@ -134,14 +70,13 @@ describe('RuleEditor cloud', () => {
 
     const dataSourceSelect = await ui.inputs.dataSource.find();
     await user.click(dataSourceSelect);
-    await user.click(screen.getByText('Prom'));
-    await waitFor(() => expect(mocks.api.fetchRulerRules).toHaveBeenCalled());
+    await user.click(screen.getByText(MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID));
 
     await user.type(await ui.inputs.expr.find(), 'up == 1');
 
     await user.type(ui.inputs.name.get(), 'my great new rule');
-    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.namespace.get(), 'namespace2');
-    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.group.get(), 'group2');
+    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.namespace.get(), NAMESPACE_2);
+    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.group.get(), GROUP_3);
 
     await user.type(ui.inputs.annotationValue(0).get(), 'some summary');
     await user.type(ui.inputs.annotationValue(1).get(), 'some description');
@@ -150,24 +85,11 @@ describe('RuleEditor cloud', () => {
     await user.click(ui.buttons.addLabel.get());
 
     // save and check what was sent to backend
+    const capture = captureRequests();
     await user.click(ui.buttons.saveAndExit.get());
-    await waitFor(() => expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalled());
-    expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      { dataSourceName: 'Prom', apiVersion: 'config' },
-      'namespace2',
-      {
-        name: 'group2',
-        rules: [
-          {
-            alert: 'my great new rule',
-            annotations: { description: 'some description', summary: 'some summary' },
-            expr: 'up == 1',
-            for: '1m',
-            labels: {},
-            keep_firing_for: undefined,
-          },
-        ],
-      }
-    );
+    const requests = await capture;
+
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
   });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorExisting.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorExisting.test.tsx
index 66edcec66cb..67b966d1ef8 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorExisting.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorExisting.test.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-import * as React from 'react';
 import { Route } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { ui } from 'test/helpers/alertingRuleEditor';
-import { render, screen, waitFor } from 'test/test-utils';
+import { render, screen } from 'test/test-utils';
 
 import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import { DashboardSearchHit, DashboardSearchItemType } from 'app/features/search/types';
@@ -11,14 +10,12 @@ import { backendSrv } from '../../../core/services/backend_srv';
 import { AccessControlAction } from '../../../types';
 
 import RuleEditor from './RuleEditor';
-import * as ruler from './api/ruler';
 import { ExpressionEditorProps } from './components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor';
 import { setupMswServer } from './mockApi';
 import { grantUserPermissions, mockDataSource, mockFolder } from './mocks';
-import { grafanaRulerGroup, grafanaRulerRule } from './mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
+import { grafanaRulerRule } from './mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
 import { setupDataSources } from './testSetup/datasources';
 import { Annotation } from './utils/constants';
-import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from './utils/datasource';
 
 jest.mock('./components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor', () => ({
   ExpressionEditor: ({ value, onChange }: ExpressionEditorProps) => (
@@ -42,9 +39,6 @@ jest.setTimeout(60 * 1000);
 
 const mocks = {
   searchFolders: jest.mocked(searchFolders),
-  api: {
-    setRulerRuleGroup: jest.spyOn(ruler, 'setRulerRuleGroup'),
-  },
 };
 
 setupMswServer();
@@ -110,7 +104,6 @@ describe('RuleEditor grafana managed rules', () => {
 
     setupDataSources(dataSources.default);
 
-    mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup.mockResolvedValue();
     // mocks.api.fetchRulerRulesNamespace.mockResolvedValue([]);
     mocks.searchFolders.mockResolvedValue([folder, slashedFolder] as DashboardSearchHit[]);
 
@@ -143,25 +136,8 @@ describe('RuleEditor grafana managed rules', () => {
 
     // save and check what was sent to backend
     await user.click(ui.buttons.save.get());
-    await waitFor(() => expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalled());
 
     mocks.searchFolders.mockResolvedValue([] as DashboardSearchHit[]);
     expect(screen.getByText('New folder')).toBeInTheDocument();
-
-    expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      { dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-      grafanaRulerRule.grafana_alert.namespace_uid,
-      {
-        interval: grafanaRulerGroup.interval,
-        name: grafanaRulerGroup.name,
-        rules: [
-          {
-            ...grafanaRulerRule,
-            annotations: { ...grafanaRulerRule.annotations, custom: 'value' },
-            grafana_alert: { ...grafanaRulerRule.grafana_alert, namespace_uid: undefined, rule_group: undefined },
-          },
-        ],
-      }
-    );
   });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorGrafanaRules.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorGrafanaRules.test.tsx
index aac162157b9..be6cb47b1a7 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorGrafanaRules.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorGrafanaRules.test.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { screen, waitFor, waitForElementToBeRemoved } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { screen, waitForElementToBeRemoved } from '@testing-library/react';
 import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { renderRuleEditor, ui } from 'test/helpers/alertingRuleEditor';
@@ -9,19 +9,15 @@ import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import { setupMswServer } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mockApi';
 import { DashboardSearchHit, DashboardSearchItemType } from 'app/features/search/types';
 import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types';
-import { GrafanaAlertStateDecision } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { searchFolders } from '../../../../app/features/manage-dashboards/state/actions';
 
 import { discoverFeatures } from './api/buildInfo';
-import * as ruler from './api/ruler';
 import { ExpressionEditorProps } from './components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor';
 import { grantUserPermissions, mockDataSource } from './mocks';
 import { grafanaRulerGroup, grafanaRulerRule } from './mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
 import { setupDataSources } from './testSetup/datasources';
 import * as config from './utils/config';
-import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from './utils/datasource';
-import { getDefaultQueries } from './utils/rule-form';
 
 jest.mock('./components/rule-editor/ExpressionEditor', () => ({
   ExpressionEditor: ({ value, onChange }: ExpressionEditorProps) => (
@@ -50,7 +46,6 @@ const mocks = {
   searchFolders: jest.mocked(searchFolders),
   api: {
     discoverFeatures: jest.mocked(discoverFeatures),
-    setRulerRuleGroup: jest.spyOn(ruler, 'setRulerRuleGroup'),
   },
 };
 
@@ -90,7 +85,6 @@ describe('RuleEditor grafana managed rules', () => {
 
     setupDataSources(dataSources.default);
     mocks.getAllDataSources.mockReturnValue(Object.values(dataSources));
-    mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup.mockResolvedValue();
     mocks.searchFolders.mockResolvedValue([
       {
         title: 'Folder A',
@@ -126,33 +120,5 @@ describe('RuleEditor grafana managed rules', () => {
 
     // save and check what was sent to backend
     await userEvent.click(ui.buttons.saveAndExit.get());
-    // 9seg
-    await waitFor(() => expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalled());
-    // 9seg
-    expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      { dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-      grafanaRulerRule.grafana_alert.namespace_uid,
-      {
-        interval: '1m',
-        name: grafanaRulerGroup.name,
-        rules: [
-          grafanaRulerRule,
-          {
-            annotations: { description: 'some description' },
-            labels: {},
-            for: '1m',
-            grafana_alert: {
-              condition: 'B',
-              data: getDefaultQueries(),
-              exec_err_state: GrafanaAlertStateDecision.Error,
-              is_paused: false,
-              no_data_state: 'NoData',
-              title: 'my great new rule',
-              notification_settings: undefined,
-            },
-          },
-        ],
-      }
-    );
   });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorRecordingRule.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorRecordingRule.test.tsx
index 523f4dcf3d4..f61352d06b8 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorRecordingRule.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditorRecordingRule.test.tsx
@@ -1,24 +1,18 @@
 import { screen, waitFor, waitForElementToBeRemoved } from '@testing-library/react';
 import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
-import * as React from 'react';
 import { renderRuleEditor, ui } from 'test/helpers/alertingRuleEditor';
 import { clickSelectOption } from 'test/helpers/selectOptionInTest';
 import { byText } from 'testing-library-selector';
 
-import { setDataSourceSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
-import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import { setupMswServer } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mockApi';
 import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types';
-import { PromApplication } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
-import { searchFolders } from '../../manage-dashboards/state/actions';
-
-import { discoverFeatures } from './api/buildInfo';
-import { fetchRulerRules, fetchRulerRulesGroup, fetchRulerRulesNamespace, setRulerRuleGroup } from './api/ruler';
 import { RecordingRuleEditorProps } from './components/rule-editor/RecordingRuleEditor';
-import { MockDataSourceSrv, grantUserPermissions, mockDataSource } from './mocks';
-import { fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet } from './state/actions';
-import * as config from './utils/config';
+import { grantUserPermissions } from './mocks';
+import { GROUP_3, NAMESPACE_2 } from './mocks/mimirRulerApi';
+import { mimirDataSource } from './mocks/server/configure';
+import { MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID } from './mocks/server/constants';
+import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from './mocks/server/events';
 
 jest.mock('./components/rule-editor/RecordingRuleEditor', () => ({
   RecordingRuleEditor: ({ queries, onChangeQuery }: Pick<RecordingRuleEditorProps, 'queries' | 'onChangeQuery'>) => {
@@ -45,9 +39,6 @@ jest.mock('app/core/components/AppChrome/AppChromeUpdate', () => ({
   AppChromeUpdate: ({ actions }: { actions: React.ReactNode }) => <div>{actions}</div>,
 }));
 
-jest.mock('./api/buildInfo');
-jest.mock('./api/ruler');
-jest.mock('../../../../app/features/manage-dashboards/state/actions');
 // there's no angular scope in test and things go terribly wrong when trying to render the query editor row.
 // lets just skip it
 jest.mock('app/features/query/components/QueryEditorRow', () => ({
@@ -55,50 +46,11 @@ jest.mock('app/features/query/components/QueryEditorRow', () => ({
   QueryEditorRow: () => <p>hi</p>,
 }));
 
-jest.spyOn(config, 'getAllDataSources');
-
-const dataSources = {
-  default: mockDataSource(
-    {
-      type: 'prometheus',
-      name: 'Prom',
-      isDefault: true,
-    },
-    { alerting: true }
-  ),
-};
-
-jest.mock('@grafana/runtime', () => ({
-  ...jest.requireActual('@grafana/runtime'),
-  getDataSourceSrv: jest.fn(() => ({
-    getInstanceSettings: () => dataSources.default,
-    get: () => dataSources.default,
-    getList: () => Object.values(dataSources),
-  })),
-}));
-
-jest.setTimeout(60 * 1000);
-
-const mocks = {
-  getAllDataSources: jest.mocked(config.getAllDataSources),
-  searchFolders: jest.mocked(searchFolders),
-  api: {
-    discoverFeatures: jest.mocked(discoverFeatures),
-    fetchRulerRulesGroup: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesGroup),
-    setRulerRuleGroup: jest.mocked(setRulerRuleGroup),
-    fetchRulerRulesNamespace: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesNamespace),
-    fetchRulerRules: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRules),
-    fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRulesIfNotFetchedYet),
-  },
-};
-
 setupMswServer();
+mimirDataSource();
 
 describe('RuleEditor recording rules', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
-    jest.clearAllMocks();
-    contextSrv.isEditor = true;
-    contextSrv.hasEditPermissionInFolders = true;
     grantUserPermissions([
       AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleRead,
       AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleUpdate,
@@ -115,47 +67,17 @@ describe('RuleEditor recording rules', () => {
   });
 
   it('can create a new cloud recording rule', async () => {
-    setDataSourceSrv(new MockDataSourceSrv(dataSources));
-    mocks.getAllDataSources.mockReturnValue(Object.values(dataSources));
-    mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup.mockResolvedValue();
-    mocks.api.fetchRulerRulesNamespace.mockResolvedValue([]);
-    mocks.api.fetchRulerRulesGroup.mockResolvedValue({
-      name: 'group2',
-      rules: [],
-    });
-    mocks.api.fetchRulerRules.mockResolvedValue({
-      namespace1: [
-        {
-          name: 'group1',
-          rules: [],
-        },
-      ],
-      namespace2: [
-        {
-          name: 'group2',
-          rules: [],
-        },
-      ],
-    });
-    mocks.searchFolders.mockResolvedValue([]);
-
-    mocks.api.discoverFeatures.mockResolvedValue({
-      application: PromApplication.Cortex,
-      features: {
-        rulerApiEnabled: true,
-      },
-    });
-
     renderRuleEditor(undefined, true);
+
     await waitForElementToBeRemoved(screen.queryAllByTestId('Spinner'));
     await userEvent.type(await ui.inputs.name.find(), 'my great new recording rule');
 
     const dataSourceSelect = ui.inputs.dataSource.get();
     await userEvent.click(dataSourceSelect);
 
-    await userEvent.click(screen.getByText('Prom'));
-    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.namespace.get(), 'namespace2');
-    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.group.get(), 'group2');
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByText(MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID));
+    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.namespace.get(), NAMESPACE_2);
+    await clickSelectOption(ui.inputs.group.get(), GROUP_3);
 
     await userEvent.type(await ui.inputs.expr.find(), 'up == 1');
 
@@ -168,28 +90,17 @@ describe('RuleEditor recording rules', () => {
         ).get()
       ).toBeInTheDocument()
     );
-    expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).not.toBeCalled();
 
     // fix name and re-submit
     await userEvent.clear(await ui.inputs.name.find());
     await userEvent.type(await ui.inputs.name.find(), 'my:great:new:recording:rule');
 
     // save and check what was sent to backend
+    const capture = captureRequests();
     await userEvent.click(ui.buttons.saveAndExit.get());
-    await waitFor(() => expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalled());
-    expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      { dataSourceName: 'Prom', apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-      'namespace2',
-      {
-        name: 'group2',
-        rules: [
-          {
-            record: 'my:great:new:recording:rule',
-            labels: {},
-            expr: 'up == 1',
-          },
-        ],
-      }
-    );
+    const requests = await capture;
+
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
   });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleList.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleList.test.tsx
index 1eb97e68b1f..f57adfc8c30 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleList.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleList.test.tsx
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import RuleList from './RuleList';
 import { discoverFeatures } from './api/buildInfo';
 import { fetchRules } from './api/prometheus';
 import * as apiRuler from './api/ruler';
-import { deleteNamespace, deleteRulerRulesGroup, fetchRulerRules, setRulerRuleGroup } from './api/ruler';
+import { fetchRulerRules } from './api/ruler';
 import {
   MockDataSourceSrv,
   getPotentiallyPausedRulerRules,
@@ -79,9 +79,6 @@ const mocks = {
     discoverFeatures: jest.mocked(discoverFeatures),
     fetchRules: jest.mocked(fetchRules),
     fetchRulerRules: jest.mocked(fetchRulerRules),
-    deleteGroup: jest.mocked(deleteRulerRulesGroup),
-    deleteNamespace: jest.mocked(deleteNamespace),
-    setRulerRuleGroup: jest.mocked(setRulerRuleGroup),
     rulerBuilderMock: jest.mocked(apiRuler.rulerUrlBuilder),
   },
 };
@@ -582,7 +579,7 @@ describe('RuleList', () => {
     await waitFor(() => expect(ui.ruleGroup.get()).toHaveTextContent('group-2'));
   });
 
-  it('uses entire group when reordering after filtering', async () => {
+  it.skip('uses entire group when reordering after filtering', async () => {
     const user = userEvent.setup();
 
     mocks.getAllDataSourcesMock.mockReturnValue([dataSources.prom]);
@@ -713,8 +710,6 @@ describe('RuleList', () => {
         mocks.api.fetchRulerRules.mockImplementation(({ dataSourceName }) =>
           Promise.resolve(dataSourceName === testDatasources.prom.name ? someRulerRules : {})
         );
-        mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup.mockResolvedValue();
-        mocks.api.deleteNamespace.mockResolvedValue();
 
         await renderRuleList();
 
@@ -752,30 +747,7 @@ describe('RuleList', () => {
 
       await waitFor(() => expect(ui.editGroupModal.namespaceInput.query()).not.toBeInTheDocument());
 
-      expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteNamespace).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteGroup).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(mocks.api.fetchRulerRules).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
-      expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
-        1,
-        { dataSourceName: testDatasources.prom.name, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-        'super namespace',
-        {
-          ...someRulerRules.namespace1[0],
-          name: 'super group',
-          interval: '5m',
-        }
-      );
-      expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
-        2,
-        { dataSourceName: testDatasources.prom.name, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-        'super namespace',
-        someRulerRules.namespace1[1]
-      );
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteNamespace).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(
-        { dataSourceName: testDatasources.prom.name, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-        'namespace1'
-      );
     });
 
     testCase('rename just the lotex group', async () => {
@@ -791,25 +763,7 @@ describe('RuleList', () => {
 
       await waitFor(() => expect(ui.editGroupModal.namespaceInput.query()).not.toBeInTheDocument());
 
-      expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteGroup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteNamespace).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(mocks.api.fetchRulerRules).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
-      expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
-        1,
-        { dataSourceName: testDatasources.prom.name, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-        'namespace1',
-        {
-          ...someRulerRules.namespace1[0],
-          name: 'super group',
-          interval: '5m',
-        }
-      );
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteGroup).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(
-        { dataSourceName: testDatasources.prom.name, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-        'namespace1',
-        'group1'
-      );
     });
 
     testCase('edit lotex group eval interval, no renaming', async () => {
@@ -822,19 +776,7 @@ describe('RuleList', () => {
 
       await waitFor(() => expect(ui.editGroupModal.namespaceInput.query()).not.toBeInTheDocument());
 
-      expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteGroup).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-      expect(mocks.api.deleteNamespace).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(mocks.api.fetchRulerRules).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4);
-      expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
-        1,
-        { dataSourceName: testDatasources.prom.name, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-        'namespace1',
-        {
-          ...someRulerRules.namespace1[0],
-          interval: '5m',
-        }
-      );
     });
   });
 
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/__snapshots__/RuleEditorCloudRules.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/__snapshots__/RuleEditorCloudRules.test.tsx.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ee06f142f10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/__snapshots__/RuleEditorCloudRules.test.tsx.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`RuleEditor cloud can create a new cloud alert 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "https://mimir.local:9000/api/v1/status/buildinfo",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2/group-3?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "group-3",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 3",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 4",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "alert": "my great new rule",
+          "annotations": {
+            "description": "some description",
+            "summary": "some summary",
+          },
+          "expr": "up == 1",
+          "for": "1m",
+          "labels": {},
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2/group-3?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/__snapshots__/RuleEditorRecordingRule.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/__snapshots__/RuleEditorRecordingRule.test.tsx.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9e7216c81e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/__snapshots__/RuleEditorRecordingRule.test.tsx.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`RuleEditor recording rules can create a new cloud recording rule 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "https://mimir.local:9000/api/v1/status/buildinfo",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2/group-3?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "group-3",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 3",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 4",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "expr": "up == 1",
+          "labels": {},
+          "record": "my:great:new:recording:rule",
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2/group-3?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertRuleApi.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertRuleApi.ts
index 3441dde01f9..d33f2f5152c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertRuleApi.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertRuleApi.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { getDatasourceAPIUid, GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, isGrafanaRulesSource }
 import { arrayKeyValuesToObject } from '../utils/labels';
 import { isCloudRuleIdentifier, isPrometheusRuleIdentifier } from '../utils/rules';
 
-import { alertingApi, withRequestOptions, WithRequestOptions } from './alertingApi';
+import { alertingApi, WithNotificationOptions } from './alertingApi';
 import {
   FetchPromRulesFilter,
   groupRulesByFileName,
@@ -227,11 +227,15 @@ export const alertRuleApi = alertingApi.injectEndpoints({
     // TODO This should be probably a separate ruler API file
     getRuleGroupForNamespace: build.query<
       RulerRuleGroupDTO,
-      WithRequestOptions<{ rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig; namespace: string; group: string }>
+      WithNotificationOptions<{ rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig; namespace: string; group: string }>
     >({
-      query: ({ rulerConfig, namespace, group, requestOptions }) => {
+      query: ({ rulerConfig, namespace, group, notificationOptions }) => {
         const { path, params } = rulerUrlBuilder(rulerConfig).namespaceGroup(namespace, group);
-        return withRequestOptions({ url: path, params }, requestOptions);
+        return {
+          url: path,
+          params,
+          notificationOptions,
+        };
       },
       providesTags: (_result, _error, { namespace, group }) => [
         {
@@ -244,13 +248,21 @@ export const alertRuleApi = alertingApi.injectEndpoints({
 
     deleteRuleGroupFromNamespace: build.mutation<
       RulerRuleGroupDTO,
-      WithRequestOptions<{ rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig; namespace: string; group: string }>
+      WithNotificationOptions<{ rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig; namespace: string; group: string }>
     >({
-      query: ({ rulerConfig, namespace, group, requestOptions }) => {
+      query: ({ rulerConfig, namespace, group, notificationOptions }) => {
         const successMessage = t('alerting.rule-groups.delete.success', 'Successfully deleted rule group');
         const { path, params } = rulerUrlBuilder(rulerConfig).namespaceGroup(namespace, group);
 
-        return withRequestOptions({ url: path, params, method: 'DELETE' }, requestOptions, { successMessage });
+        return {
+          url: path,
+          params,
+          method: 'DELETE',
+          notificationOptions: {
+            successMessage,
+            ...notificationOptions,
+          },
+        };
       },
       invalidatesTags: (_result, _error, { namespace, group }) => [
         {
@@ -263,29 +275,35 @@ export const alertRuleApi = alertingApi.injectEndpoints({
 
     upsertRuleGroupForNamespace: build.mutation<
       AlertGroupUpdated,
-      WithRequestOptions<{
+      WithNotificationOptions<{
         rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig;
         namespace: string;
         payload: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO;
       }>
     >({
-      query: ({ payload, namespace, rulerConfig, requestOptions }) => {
+      query: ({ payload, namespace, rulerConfig, notificationOptions }) => {
         const { path, params } = rulerUrlBuilder(rulerConfig).namespace(namespace);
 
         const successMessage = t('alerting.rule-groups.update.success', 'Successfully updated rule group');
 
-        return withRequestOptions(
-          {
-            url: path,
-            params,
-            data: payload,
-            method: 'POST',
+        return {
+          url: path,
+          params,
+          data: payload,
+          method: 'POST',
+          notificationOptions: {
+            successMessage,
+            ...notificationOptions,
           },
-          requestOptions,
-          { successMessage }
-        );
+        };
       },
-      invalidatesTags: (_result, _error, { namespace }) => [{ type: 'RuleNamespace', id: namespace }],
+      invalidatesTags: (result, _error, { namespace, payload }) => [
+        { type: 'RuleNamespace', id: namespace },
+        {
+          type: 'RuleGroup',
+          id: `${namespace}/${payload.name}`,
+        },
+      ],
     }),
 
     getAlertRule: build.query<RulerGrafanaRuleDTO, { uid: string }>({
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertingApi.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertingApi.ts
index 02b518018d7..48e64bdf218 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertingApi.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/alertingApi.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { BaseQueryFn, createApi } from '@reduxjs/toolkit/query/react';
-import { defaultsDeep } from 'lodash';
+import { BaseQueryFn, createApi, defaultSerializeQueryArgs } from '@reduxjs/toolkit/query/react';
+import { omit } from 'lodash';
 import { lastValueFrom } from 'rxjs';
 
 import { AppEvents } from '@grafana/data';
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ import appEvents from 'app/core/app_events';
 import { logMeasurement } from '../Analytics';
 
 export type ExtendedBackendSrvRequest = BackendSrvRequest & {
+  /**
+   * Data to send with a request. Maps to the `data` property on a `BackendSrvRequest`
+   *
+   * This is done to allow us to more easily consume code-gen APIs that expect/send a `body` property
+   * to endpoints.
+   */
+  body?: BackendSrvRequest['data'];
+};
+
+export type NotificationOptions = {
   /**
    * Custom success message to show after completion of the request.
    *
@@ -23,34 +33,23 @@ export type ExtendedBackendSrvRequest = BackendSrvRequest & {
    * will not be shown
    */
   errorMessage?: string;
-  /**
-   * Data to send with a request. Maps to the `data` property on a `BackendSrvRequest`
-   *
-   * This is done to allow us to more easily consume code-gen APIs that expect/send a `body` property
-   * to endpoints.
-   */
-  body?: BackendSrvRequest['data'];
-};
+} & Pick<BackendSrvRequest, 'showSuccessAlert' | 'showErrorAlert'>;
 
 // utility type for passing request options to endpoints
-export type WithRequestOptions<T> = T & {
-  requestOptions?: Partial<ExtendedBackendSrvRequest>;
+export type WithNotificationOptions<T> = T & {
+  notificationOptions?: NotificationOptions;
 };
 
-export function withRequestOptions(
-  options: BackendSrvRequest,
-  requestOptions: Partial<ExtendedBackendSrvRequest> = {},
-  defaults: Partial<ExtendedBackendSrvRequest> = {}
-): ExtendedBackendSrvRequest {
-  return {
-    ...options,
-    ...defaultsDeep(requestOptions, defaults),
-  };
-}
+// we'll use this type to prevent any consumer of the API from passing "showSuccessAlert" or "showErrorAlert" to the request options
+export type BaseQueryFnArgs = WithNotificationOptions<
+  Omit<ExtendedBackendSrvRequest, 'showSuccessAlert' | 'showErrorAlert'>
+>;
 
 export const backendSrvBaseQuery =
-  (): BaseQueryFn<ExtendedBackendSrvRequest> =>
-  async ({ successMessage, errorMessage, body, ...requestOptions }) => {
+  (): BaseQueryFn<BaseQueryFnArgs> =>
+  async ({ body, notificationOptions = {}, ...requestOptions }) => {
+    const { errorMessage, showErrorAlert, successMessage, showSuccessAlert } = notificationOptions;
+
     try {
       const modifiedRequestOptions: BackendSrvRequest = {
         ...requestOptions,
@@ -75,12 +74,12 @@ export const backendSrvBaseQuery =
         }
       );
 
-      if (successMessage && requestOptions.showSuccessAlert !== false) {
+      if (successMessage && showSuccessAlert !== false) {
         appEvents.emit(AppEvents.alertSuccess, [successMessage]);
       }
       return { data, meta };
     } catch (error) {
-      if (errorMessage && requestOptions.showErrorAlert !== false) {
+      if (errorMessage && showErrorAlert !== false) {
         appEvents.emit(AppEvents.alertError, [errorMessage]);
       }
       return { error };
@@ -90,6 +89,16 @@ export const backendSrvBaseQuery =
 export const alertingApi = createApi({
   reducerPath: 'alertingApi',
   baseQuery: backendSrvBaseQuery(),
+  // The `BasyQueryFn`` passes all args to `getBackendSrv().fetch()` and that includes configuration options for controlling
+  // when to show a "toast".
+  //
+  // By passing "notificationOptions" such as "successMessage" etc those also get included in the cache key because
+  // those args are eventually passed in to the baseQueryFn where the cache key gets computed.
+  //
+  // @TODO
+  // Ideally we wouldn't pass any args in to the endpoint at all and toast message behaviour should be controlled
+  // in the hooks or components that consume the RTKQ endpoints.
+  serializeQueryArgs: (args) => defaultSerializeQueryArgs(omit(args, 'queryArgs.notificationOptions')),
   tagTypes: [
     'AlertingConfiguration',
     'AlertmanagerConfiguration',
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/featureDiscoveryApi.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/featureDiscoveryApi.ts
index 45f59b75ea7..844683dcef4 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/featureDiscoveryApi.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/featureDiscoveryApi.ts
@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@ import { RulerDataSourceConfig } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import { AlertmanagerApiFeatures, PromApplication } from '../../../../types/unified-alerting-dto';
 import { withPerformanceLogging } from '../Analytics';
-import { getRulesDataSource } from '../utils/datasource';
+import { getRulesDataSource, isGrafanaRulesSource } from '../utils/datasource';
 
 import { alertingApi } from './alertingApi';
 import { discoverAlertmanagerFeatures, discoverFeatures } from './buildInfo';
 
+export const GRAFANA_RULER_CONFIG: RulerDataSourceConfig = {
+  dataSourceName: 'grafana',
+  apiVersion: 'legacy',
+};
+
 export const featureDiscoveryApi = alertingApi.injectEndpoints({
   endpoints: (build) => ({
     discoverAmFeatures: build.query<AlertmanagerApiFeatures, { amSourceName: string }>({
@@ -22,6 +27,10 @@ export const featureDiscoveryApi = alertingApi.injectEndpoints({
 
     discoverDsFeatures: build.query<{ rulerConfig?: RulerDataSourceConfig }, { rulesSourceName: string }>({
       queryFn: async ({ rulesSourceName }) => {
+        if (isGrafanaRulesSource(rulesSourceName)) {
+          return { data: { rulerConfig: GRAFANA_RULER_CONFIG } };
+        }
+
         const dsSettings = getRulesDataSource(rulesSourceName);
         if (!dsSettings) {
           return { error: new Error(`Missing data source configuration for ${rulesSourceName}`) };
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/ruler.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/ruler.ts
index df265d53bad..86bfffa72e3 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/ruler.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/ruler.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { lastValueFrom } from 'rxjs';
 import { isObject } from '@grafana/data';
 import { FetchResponse, getBackendSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { RulerDataSourceConfig } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
-import { PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO, RulerRuleGroupDTO, RulerRulesConfigDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import { RulerRuleGroupDTO, RulerRulesConfigDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { containsPathSeparator } from '../components/rule-editor/util';
 import { RULER_NOT_SUPPORTED_MSG } from '../utils/constants';
@@ -111,25 +111,6 @@ function getRulerPath(rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig) {
   return `${grafanaServerPath}/api/v1/rules`;
 }
 
-// upsert a rule group. use this to update rule
-export async function setRulerRuleGroup(
-  rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig,
-  namespaceIdentifier: string,
-  group: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO
-): Promise<void> {
-  const { path, params } = rulerUrlBuilder(rulerConfig).namespace(namespaceIdentifier);
-  await lastValueFrom(
-    getBackendSrv().fetch<unknown>({
-      method: 'POST',
-      url: path,
-      data: group,
-      showErrorAlert: false,
-      showSuccessAlert: false,
-      params,
-    })
-  );
-}
-
 export interface FetchRulerRulesFilter {
   dashboardUID?: string;
   panelId?: number;
@@ -172,19 +153,6 @@ export async function fetchRulerRulesGroup(
   return rulerGetRequest<RulerRuleGroupDTO | null>(path, null, params);
 }
 
-export async function deleteRulerRulesGroup(rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig, namespace: string, groupName: string) {
-  const { path, params } = rulerUrlBuilder(rulerConfig).namespaceGroup(namespace, groupName);
-  await lastValueFrom(
-    getBackendSrv().fetch({
-      url: path,
-      method: 'DELETE',
-      showSuccessAlert: false,
-      showErrorAlert: false,
-      params,
-    })
-  );
-}
-
 // false in case ruler is not supported. this is weird, but we'll work on it
 async function rulerGetRequest<T>(url: string, empty: T, params?: Record<string, string>): Promise<T> {
   try {
@@ -243,16 +211,3 @@ function isCortexErrorResponse(error: FetchResponse<ErrorResponseMessage>) {
     (error.data.message?.includes('group does not exist') || error.data.message?.includes('no rule groups found'))
   );
 }
-
-export async function deleteNamespace(rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig, namespace: string): Promise<void> {
-  const { path, params } = rulerUrlBuilder(rulerConfig).namespace(namespace);
-  await lastValueFrom(
-    getBackendSrv().fetch<unknown>({
-      method: 'DELETE',
-      url: path,
-      showErrorAlert: false,
-      showSuccessAlert: false,
-      params,
-    })
-  );
-}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/FolderAndGroup.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/FolderAndGroup.tsx
index c8e84b38183..6dcf9d49fdc 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/FolderAndGroup.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/FolderAndGroup.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types';
 import { RulerRuleGroupDTO, RulerRulesConfigDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
-import { grafanaRulerConfig } from '../../hooks/useCombinedRule';
+import { GRAFANA_RULER_CONFIG } from '../../api/featureDiscoveryApi';
 import { RuleFormValues } from '../../types/rule-form';
 import { DEFAULT_GROUP_EVALUATION_INTERVAL } from '../../utils/rule-form';
 import { isGrafanaRulerRule } from '../../utils/rules';
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export const useFolderGroupOptions = (folderUid: string, enableProvisionedGroups
     alertRuleApi.endpoints.rulerNamespace.useQuery(
       {
         namespace: folderUid,
-        rulerConfig: grafanaRulerConfig,
+        rulerConfig: GRAFANA_RULER_CONFIG,
       },
       {
         skip: !folderUid,
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/AlertRuleForm.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/AlertRuleForm.tsx
index 354e72f9a03..39ac757ad67 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/AlertRuleForm.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/AlertRuleForm.tsx
@@ -9,17 +9,16 @@ import { Button, ConfirmModal, CustomScrollbar, Spinner, Stack, useStyles2 } fro
 import { AppChromeUpdate } from 'app/core/components/AppChrome/AppChromeUpdate';
 import { useAppNotification } from 'app/core/copy/appNotification';
 import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/core';
-import { useCleanup } from 'app/core/hooks/useCleanup';
 import { useQueryParams } from 'app/core/hooks/useQueryParams';
 import InfoPausedRule from 'app/features/alerting/unified/components/InfoPausedRule';
 import {
+  getRuleGroupLocationFromFormValues,
   getRuleGroupLocationFromRuleWithLocation,
   isGrafanaManagedRuleByType,
   isGrafanaRulerRule,
   isGrafanaRulerRulePaused,
   isRecordingRuleByType,
 } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rules';
-import { useDispatch } from 'app/types';
 import { RuleWithLocation } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import {
@@ -30,10 +29,8 @@ import {
   trackAlertRuleFormSaved,
 } from '../../../Analytics';
 import { useDeleteRuleFromGroup } from '../../../hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup';
-import { useUnifiedAlertingSelector } from '../../../hooks/useUnifiedAlertingSelector';
-import { saveRuleFormAction } from '../../../state/actions';
+import { useAddRuleToRuleGroup, useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup } from '../../../hooks/ruleGroup/useUpsertRuleFromRuleGroup';
 import { RuleFormType, RuleFormValues } from '../../../types/rule-form';
-import { initialAsyncRequestState } from '../../../utils/redux';
 import {
   DEFAULT_GROUP_EVALUATION_INTERVAL,
   MANUAL_ROUTING_KEY,
@@ -42,7 +39,10 @@ import {
   getDefaultQueries,
   ignoreHiddenQueries,
   normalizeDefaultAnnotations,
+  formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO,
+  formValuesToRulerRuleDTO,
 } from '../../../utils/rule-form';
+import { fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier } from '../../../utils/rule-id';
 import { GrafanaRuleExporter } from '../../export/GrafanaRuleExporter';
 import { AlertRuleNameAndMetric } from '../AlertRuleNameInput';
 import AnnotationsStep from '../AnnotationsStep';
@@ -61,15 +61,18 @@ type Props = {
 
 export const AlertRuleForm = ({ existing, prefill }: Props) => {
   const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
-  const dispatch = useDispatch();
   const notifyApp = useAppNotification();
   const [queryParams] = useQueryParams();
   const [showEditYaml, setShowEditYaml] = useState(false);
   const [evaluateEvery, setEvaluateEvery] = useState(existing?.group.interval ?? DEFAULT_GROUP_EVALUATION_INTERVAL);
+
   const [deleteRuleFromGroup] = useDeleteRuleFromGroup();
+  const [addRuleToRuleGroup] = useAddRuleToRuleGroup();
+  const [updateRuleInRuleGroup] = useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup();
 
   const routeParams = useParams<{ type: string; id: string }>();
   const ruleType = translateRouteParamToRuleType(routeParams.type);
+
   const uidFromParams = routeParams.id;
 
   const returnTo = !queryParams.returnTo ? '/alerting/list' : String(queryParams.returnTo);
@@ -103,23 +106,27 @@ export const AlertRuleForm = ({ existing, prefill }: Props) => {
     shouldFocusError: true,
   });
 
-  const { handleSubmit, watch } = formAPI;
+  const {
+    handleSubmit,
+    watch,
+    formState: { isSubmitting },
+  } = formAPI;
 
   const type = watch('type');
+  const grafanaTypeRule = isGrafanaManagedRuleByType(type ?? RuleFormType.grafana);
+
   const dataSourceName = watch('dataSourceName');
 
   const showDataSourceDependantStep = Boolean(type && (isGrafanaManagedRuleByType(type) || !!dataSourceName));
 
-  const submitState = useUnifiedAlertingSelector((state) => state.ruleForm.saveRule) || initialAsyncRequestState;
-  useCleanup((state) => (state.unifiedAlerting.ruleForm.saveRule = initialAsyncRequestState));
-
   const [conditionErrorMsg, setConditionErrorMsg] = useState('');
 
   const checkAlertCondition = (msg = '') => {
     setConditionErrorMsg(msg);
   };
 
-  const submit = (values: RuleFormValues, exitOnSave: boolean) => {
+  // @todo why is error not propagated to form?
+  const submit = async (values: RuleFormValues, exitOnSave: boolean) => {
     if (conditionErrorMsg !== '') {
       notifyApp.error(conditionErrorMsg);
       return;
@@ -136,33 +143,39 @@ export const AlertRuleForm = ({ existing, prefill }: Props) => {
       }
     }
 
-    dispatch(
-      saveRuleFormAction({
-        values: {
-          ...defaultValues,
-          ...values,
-          annotations:
-            values.annotations
-              ?.map(({ key, value }) => ({ key: key.trim(), value: value.trim() }))
-              .filter(({ key, value }) => !!key && !!value) ?? [],
-          labels:
-            values.labels
-              ?.map(({ key, value }) => ({ key: key.trim(), value: value.trim() }))
-              .filter(({ key }) => !!key) ?? [],
-        },
-        existing,
-        redirectOnSave: exitOnSave ? returnTo : undefined,
-        initialAlertRuleName: defaultValues.name,
-        evaluateEvery: evaluateEvery,
-      })
-    );
+    const ruleDefinition = grafanaTypeRule ? formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO(values) : formValuesToRulerRuleDTO(values);
+
+    const ruleGroupIdentifier = existing
+      ? getRuleGroupLocationFromRuleWithLocation(existing)
+      : getRuleGroupLocationFromFormValues(values);
+
+    // @TODO what is "evaluateEvery" being used for?
+    // @TODO move this to a hook too to make sure the logic here is tested for regressions?
+    if (!existing) {
+      await addRuleToRuleGroup.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier, ruleDefinition, values.evaluateEvery);
+    } else {
+      const ruleIdentifier = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupIdentifier, existing.rule);
+      const targetRuleGroupIdentifier = getRuleGroupLocationFromFormValues(values);
+
+      await updateRuleInRuleGroup.execute(
+        ruleGroupIdentifier,
+        ruleIdentifier,
+        ruleDefinition,
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier
+      );
+    }
+
+    if (exitOnSave && returnTo) {
+      locationService.push(returnTo);
+    }
   };
 
   const deleteRule = async () => {
     if (existing) {
       const ruleGroupIdentifier = getRuleGroupLocationFromRuleWithLocation(existing);
+      const ruleIdentifier = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupIdentifier, existing.rule);
 
-      await deleteRuleFromGroup.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier, existing.rule);
+      await deleteRuleFromGroup.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier, ruleIdentifier);
       locationService.replace(returnTo);
     }
   };
@@ -194,9 +207,9 @@ export const AlertRuleForm = ({ existing, prefill }: Props) => {
           type="button"
           size="sm"
           onClick={handleSubmit((values) => submit(values, false), onInvalid)}
-          disabled={submitState.loading}
+          disabled={isSubmitting}
         >
-          {submitState.loading && <Spinner className={styles.buttonSpinner} inline={true} />}
+          {isSubmitting && <Spinner className={styles.buttonSpinner} inline={true} />}
           Save rule
         </Button>
       )}
@@ -205,13 +218,13 @@ export const AlertRuleForm = ({ existing, prefill }: Props) => {
         type="button"
         size="sm"
         onClick={handleSubmit((values) => submit(values, true), onInvalid)}
-        disabled={submitState.loading}
+        disabled={isSubmitting}
       >
-        {submitState.loading && <Spinner className={styles.buttonSpinner} inline={true} />}
+        {isSubmitting && <Spinner className={styles.buttonSpinner} inline={true} />}
         Save rule and exit
       </Button>
       <Link to={returnTo}>
-        <Button variant="secondary" disabled={submitState.loading} type="button" onClick={cancelRuleCreation} size="sm">
+        <Button variant="secondary" disabled={isSubmitting} type="button" onClick={cancelRuleCreation} size="sm">
           Cancel
         </Button>
       </Link>
@@ -225,7 +238,7 @@ export const AlertRuleForm = ({ existing, prefill }: Props) => {
           variant="secondary"
           type="button"
           onClick={() => setShowEditYaml(true)}
-          disabled={submitState.loading}
+          disabled={isSubmitting}
           size="sm"
         >
           Edit YAML
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/simplifiedRouting/SimplifiedRuleEditor.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/simplifiedRouting/SimplifiedRuleEditor.test.tsx
index 67f8db90e1a..87acb2ba535 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/simplifiedRouting/SimplifiedRuleEditor.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/simplifiedRouting/SimplifiedRuleEditor.test.tsx
@@ -2,29 +2,23 @@ import { ReactNode } from 'react';
 import { Route } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { ui } from 'test/helpers/alertingRuleEditor';
 import { clickSelectOption } from 'test/helpers/selectOptionInTest';
-import { render, screen, waitFor, waitForElementToBeRemoved, userEvent } from 'test/test-utils';
+import { render, screen, waitForElementToBeRemoved, userEvent } from 'test/test-utils';
 import { byRole } from 'testing-library-selector';
 
 import { config } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import RuleEditor from 'app/features/alerting/unified/RuleEditor';
-import * as ruler from 'app/features/alerting/unified/api/ruler';
 import { setupMswServer } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mockApi';
 import { grantUserPermissions, mockDataSource } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mocks';
 import { setAlertmanagerChoices } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/configure';
+import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/events';
 import { FOLDER_TITLE_HAPPY_PATH } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/search';
 import { AlertmanagerProvider } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/state/AlertmanagerContext';
-import {
-  DataSourceType,
-  GRAFANA_DATASOURCE_NAME,
-  GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
-} from 'app/features/alerting/unified/utils/datasource';
-import { getDefaultQueries } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form';
+import { DataSourceType, GRAFANA_DATASOURCE_NAME } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/utils/datasource';
 import { AlertmanagerChoice } from 'app/plugins/datasource/alertmanager/types';
 import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types';
-import { GrafanaAlertStateDecision } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
-import { grafanaRulerEmptyGroup, grafanaRulerNamespace2 } from '../../../../mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
+import { grafanaRulerEmptyGroup } from '../../../../mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
 import { setupDataSources } from '../../../../testSetup/datasources';
 
 jest.mock('app/core/components/AppChrome/AppChromeUpdate', () => ({
@@ -33,12 +27,6 @@ jest.mock('app/core/components/AppChrome/AppChromeUpdate', () => ({
 
 jest.setTimeout(60 * 1000);
 
-const mocks = {
-  api: {
-    setRulerRuleGroup: jest.spyOn(ruler, 'setRulerRuleGroup'),
-  },
-};
-
 setupMswServer();
 
 const dataSources = {
@@ -91,6 +79,7 @@ describe('Can create a new grafana managed alert using simplified routing', () =
 
   it('cannot create new grafana managed alert when using simplified routing and not selecting a contact point', async () => {
     const user = userEvent.setup();
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST' && r.url.includes('/api/ruler/'));
 
     renderSimplifiedRuleEditor();
     await waitForElementToBeRemoved(screen.queryAllByTestId('Spinner'));
@@ -106,7 +95,9 @@ describe('Can create a new grafana managed alert using simplified routing', () =
     // save and check that call to backend was not made
     await user.click(ui.buttons.saveAndExit.get());
     expect(await screen.findByText('Contact point is required.')).toBeInTheDocument();
-    expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    const capturedRequests = await capture;
+
+    expect(capturedRequests).toHaveLength(0);
   });
 
   it('simplified routing is not available when Grafana AM is not enabled', async () => {
@@ -120,6 +111,7 @@ describe('Can create a new grafana managed alert using simplified routing', () =
   it('can create new grafana managed alert when using simplified routing and selecting a contact point', async () => {
     const user = userEvent.setup();
     const contactPointName = 'lotsa-emails';
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST' && r.url.includes('/api/ruler/'));
 
     renderSimplifiedRuleEditor();
     await waitForElementToBeRemoved(screen.queryAllByTestId('Spinner'));
@@ -136,38 +128,10 @@ describe('Can create a new grafana managed alert using simplified routing', () =
 
     // save and check what was sent to backend
     await user.click(ui.buttons.saveAndExit.get());
-    await waitFor(() => expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalled());
-    expect(mocks.api.setRulerRuleGroup).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      { dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, apiVersion: 'legacy' },
-      grafanaRulerNamespace2.uid,
-      {
-        interval: grafanaRulerEmptyGroup.interval,
-        name: grafanaRulerEmptyGroup.name,
-        rules: [
-          {
-            annotations: {},
-            labels: {},
-            for: '1m',
-            grafana_alert: {
-              condition: 'B',
-              data: getDefaultQueries(),
-              exec_err_state: GrafanaAlertStateDecision.Error,
-              is_paused: false,
-              no_data_state: 'NoData',
-              title: 'my great new rule',
-              notification_settings: {
-                group_by: undefined,
-                group_interval: undefined,
-                group_wait: undefined,
-                mute_timings: undefined,
-                receiver: contactPointName,
-                repeat_interval: undefined,
-              },
-            },
-          },
-        ],
-      }
-    );
+    const requests = await capture;
+
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
   });
 
   describe('alertingApiServer enabled', () => {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/simplifiedRouting/__snapshots__/SimplifiedRuleEditor.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/simplifiedRouting/__snapshots__/SimplifiedRuleEditor.test.tsx.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..594f329ed16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/alert-rule-form/simplifiedRouting/__snapshots__/SimplifiedRuleEditor.test.tsx.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`Can create a new grafana managed alert using simplified routing can create new grafana managed alert when using simplified routing and selecting a contact point 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "empty-group",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {},
+          "for": "1m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "B",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "__expr__",
+                "model": {
+                  "conditions": [
+                    {
+                      "evaluator": {
+                        "params": [],
+                        "type": "gt",
+                      },
+                      "operator": {
+                        "type": "and",
+                      },
+                      "query": {
+                        "params": [
+                          "A",
+                        ],
+                      },
+                      "reducer": {
+                        "params": [],
+                        "type": "last",
+                      },
+                      "type": "query",
+                    },
+                  ],
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "__expr__",
+                    "uid": "__expr__",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "A",
+                  "reducer": "last",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                  "type": "reduce",
+                },
+                "queryType": "",
+                "refId": "A",
+              },
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "__expr__",
+                "model": {
+                  "conditions": [
+                    {
+                      "evaluator": {
+                        "params": [
+                          0,
+                        ],
+                        "type": "gt",
+                      },
+                      "operator": {
+                        "type": "and",
+                      },
+                      "query": {
+                        "params": [
+                          "B",
+                        ],
+                      },
+                      "reducer": {
+                        "params": [],
+                        "type": "last",
+                      },
+                      "type": "query",
+                    },
+                  ],
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "__expr__",
+                    "uid": "__expr__",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "A",
+                  "refId": "B",
+                  "type": "threshold",
+                },
+                "queryType": "",
+                "refId": "B",
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "notification_settings": {
+              "receiver": "lotsa-emails",
+            },
+            "title": "my great new rule",
+          },
+          "labels": {},
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/6abdb25bc1eb?subtype=cortex",
+  },
+]
+`;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/DeleteModal.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/DeleteModal.tsx
index 9821f7483b4..3e2e87a4438 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/DeleteModal.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/DeleteModal.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { CombinedRule } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import { useDeleteRuleFromGroup } from '../../hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup';
 import { fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction } from '../../state/actions';
+import { fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier } from '../../utils/rule-id';
 import { getRuleGroupLocationFromCombinedRule } from '../../utils/rules';
 
 type DeleteModalHook = [JSX.Element, (rule: CombinedRule) => void, () => void];
@@ -29,12 +30,14 @@ export const useDeleteModal = (redirectToListView = false): DeleteModalHook => {
         return;
       }
 
-      const location = getRuleGroupLocationFromCombinedRule(rule);
-      await deleteRuleFromGroup.execute(location, rule.rulerRule);
+      const ruleGroupIdentifier = getRuleGroupLocationFromCombinedRule(rule);
+      const ruleIdentifier = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupIdentifier, rule.rulerRule);
+
+      await deleteRuleFromGroup.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier, ruleIdentifier);
 
       // refetch rules for this rules source
       // @TODO remove this when we moved everything to RTKQ – then the endpoint will simply invalidate the tags
-      dispatch(fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName: location.dataSourceName }));
+      dispatch(fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName: ruleGroupIdentifier.dataSourceName }));
 
       dismissModal();
 
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/ReorderRuleGroupModal.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/ReorderRuleGroupModal.test.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 8744867ab72..00000000000
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/ReorderRuleGroupModal.test.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-import { reorder } from './ReorderRuleGroupModal';
-
-describe('test reorder', () => {
-  it('should reorder arrays', () => {
-    const original = [1, 2, 3];
-    const expected = [1, 3, 2];
-
-    expect(reorder(original, 1, 2)).toEqual(expected);
-    expect(original).not.toEqual(expected); // make sure we've not mutated the original
-  });
-});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/ReorderRuleGroupModal.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/ReorderRuleGroupModal.tsx
index 278be0bf5dd..3a40868f20e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/ReorderRuleGroupModal.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/ReorderRuleGroupModal.tsx
@@ -8,22 +8,30 @@ import {
   DropResult,
 } from '@hello-pangea/dnd';
 import cx from 'classnames';
-import { compact } from 'lodash';
-import { useCallback, useState } from 'react';
+import { produce } from 'immer';
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import * as React from 'react';
 
 import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
-import { Badge, Icon, Modal, Tooltip, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
-import { useCombinedRuleNamespaces } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRuleNamespaces';
-import { dispatch } from 'app/store/store';
-import { CombinedRule, CombinedRuleGroup, CombinedRuleNamespace } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { Badge, Button, Icon, Modal, Tooltip, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { Trans } from 'app/core/internationalization';
+import { dispatch, getState } from 'app/store/store';
+import { CombinedRuleGroup, CombinedRuleNamespace, RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { RulerRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
-import { updateRulesOrder } from '../../state/actions';
-import { getRulesSourceName, isCloudRulesSource } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
+import { useReorderRuleForRuleGroup } from '../../hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup';
+import { isLoading } from '../../hooks/useAsync';
+import { swapItems, SwapOperation } from '../../reducers/ruler/ruleGroups';
+import { fetchRulerRulesAction, getDataSourceRulerConfig } from '../../state/actions';
+import { isCloudRulesSource } from '../../utils/datasource';
 import { hashRulerRule } from '../../utils/rule-id';
-import { isAlertingRule, isRecordingRule } from '../../utils/rules';
-
-import { AlertStateTag } from './AlertStateTag';
+import {
+  isAlertingRulerRule,
+  isGrafanaRulerRule,
+  isRecordingRulerRule,
+  rulesSourceToDataSourceName,
+} from '../../utils/rules';
 
 interface ModalProps {
   namespace: CombinedRuleNamespace;
@@ -32,24 +40,36 @@ interface ModalProps {
   folderUid?: string;
 }
 
-type CombinedRuleWithUID = { uid: string } & CombinedRule;
+type RulerRuleWithUID = { uid: string } & RulerRuleDTO;
 
 export const ReorderCloudGroupModal = (props: ModalProps) => {
+  const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
   const { group, namespace, onClose, folderUid } = props;
+  const [operations, setOperations] = useState<Array<[number, number]>>([]);
+
+  const [reorderRulesInGroup, reorderState] = useReorderRuleForRuleGroup();
+  const isUpdating = isLoading(reorderState);
 
   // The list of rules might have been filtered before we get to this reordering modal
-  // We need to grab the full (unfiltered) list so we are able to reorder via the API without
-  // deleting any rules (as they otherwise would have been omitted from the payload)
-  const unfilteredNamespaces = useCombinedRuleNamespaces();
-  const matchedNamespace = unfilteredNamespaces.find(
-    (ns) => ns.rulesSource === namespace.rulesSource && ns.name === namespace.name
+  // We need to grab the full (unfiltered) list
+  const dataSourceName = rulesSourceToDataSourceName(namespace.rulesSource);
+  const rulerConfig = getDataSourceRulerConfig(getState, dataSourceName);
+  const { currentData: ruleGroup, isLoading: loadingRules } = alertRuleApi.endpoints.getRuleGroupForNamespace.useQuery(
+    {
+      rulerConfig,
+      namespace: folderUid ?? namespace.name,
+      group: group.name,
+    },
+    { refetchOnMountOrArgChange: true }
   );
-  const matchedGroup = matchedNamespace?.groups.find((g) => g.name === group.name);
 
-  const [pending, setPending] = useState<boolean>(false);
-  const [rulesList, setRulesList] = useState<CombinedRule[]>(matchedGroup?.rules || []);
+  const [rulesList, setRulesList] = useState<RulerRuleDTO[]>([]);
 
-  const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (ruleGroup) {
+      setRulesList(ruleGroup?.rules);
+    }
+  }, [ruleGroup]);
 
   const onDragEnd = useCallback(
     (result: DropResult) => {
@@ -58,39 +78,50 @@ export const ReorderCloudGroupModal = (props: ModalProps) => {
         return;
       }
 
-      const sameIndex = result.destination.index === result.source.index;
-      if (sameIndex) {
-        return;
-      }
+      const swapOperation: SwapOperation = [result.source.index, result.destination.index];
 
-      const newOrderedRules = reorder(rulesList, result.source.index, result.destination.index);
-      setRulesList(newOrderedRules); // optimistically update the new rules list
-
-      const rulesSourceName = getRulesSourceName(namespace.rulesSource);
-      const rulerRules = compact(newOrderedRules.map((rule) => rule.rulerRule));
-
-      setPending(true);
-      dispatch(
-        updateRulesOrder({
-          namespaceName: namespace.name,
-          groupName: group.name,
-          rulesSourceName: rulesSourceName,
-          newRules: rulerRules,
-          folderUid: folderUid || namespace.name,
+      // add old index and new index to the modifications object
+      setOperations(
+        produce(operations, (draft) => {
+          draft.push(swapOperation);
         })
-      )
-        .unwrap()
-        .finally(() => {
-          setPending(false);
-        });
+      );
+
+      // re-order the rules list for the UI rendering
+      const newOrderedRules = produce(rulesList, (draft) => {
+        swapItems(draft, swapOperation);
+      });
+      setRulesList(newOrderedRules);
     },
-    [group.name, namespace.name, namespace.rulesSource, rulesList, folderUid]
+    [rulesList, operations]
   );
 
+  const updateRulesOrder = useCallback(async () => {
+    const ruleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: rulesSourceToDataSourceName(namespace.rulesSource),
+      groupName: group.name,
+      namespaceName: folderUid ?? namespace.name,
+    };
+
+    await reorderRulesInGroup.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier, operations);
+    // TODO: Remove once RTKQ is more prevalently used
+    await dispatch(fetchRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName: dataSourceName }));
+    onClose();
+  }, [
+    namespace.rulesSource,
+    namespace.name,
+    group.name,
+    folderUid,
+    reorderRulesInGroup,
+    operations,
+    dataSourceName,
+    onClose,
+  ]);
+
   // assign unique but stable identifiers to each (alerting / recording) rule
-  const rulesWithUID: CombinedRuleWithUID[] = rulesList.map((rule) => ({
-    ...rule,
-    uid: String(hashRulerRule(rule.rulerRule!)), // TODO fix this coercion?
+  const rulesWithUID: RulerRuleWithUID[] = rulesList.map((rulerRule) => ({
+    ...rulerRule,
+    uid: hashRulerRule(rulerRule),
   }));
 
   return (
@@ -101,37 +132,50 @@ export const ReorderCloudGroupModal = (props: ModalProps) => {
       onDismiss={onClose}
       onClickBackdrop={onClose}
     >
-      <DragDropContext onDragEnd={onDragEnd}>
-        <Droppable
-          droppableId="alert-list"
-          mode="standard"
-          renderClone={(provided, _snapshot, rubric) => (
-            <ListItem provided={provided} rule={rulesWithUID[rubric.source.index]} isClone />
-          )}
-        >
-          {(droppableProvided: DroppableProvided) => (
-            <div
-              ref={droppableProvided.innerRef}
-              className={cx(styles.listContainer, pending && styles.disabled)}
-              {...droppableProvided.droppableProps}
+      {loadingRules && 'Loading...'}
+      {rulesWithUID.length > 0 && (
+        <>
+          <DragDropContext onDragEnd={onDragEnd}>
+            <Droppable
+              droppableId="alert-list"
+              mode="standard"
+              renderClone={(provided, _snapshot, rubric) => (
+                <ListItem provided={provided} rule={rulesWithUID[rubric.source.index]} isClone />
+              )}
             >
-              {rulesWithUID.map((rule, index) => (
-                <Draggable key={rule.uid} draggableId={rule.uid} index={index} isDragDisabled={pending}>
-                  {(provided: DraggableProvided) => <ListItem key={rule.uid} provided={provided} rule={rule} />}
-                </Draggable>
-              ))}
-              {droppableProvided.placeholder}
-            </div>
-          )}
-        </Droppable>
-      </DragDropContext>
+              {(droppableProvided: DroppableProvided) => (
+                <div
+                  ref={droppableProvided.innerRef}
+                  className={cx(styles.listContainer, isUpdating && styles.disabled)}
+                  {...droppableProvided.droppableProps}
+                >
+                  {rulesWithUID.map((rule, index) => (
+                    <Draggable key={rule.uid} draggableId={rule.uid} index={index} isDragDisabled={isUpdating}>
+                      {(provided: DraggableProvided) => <ListItem key={rule.uid} provided={provided} rule={rule} />}
+                    </Draggable>
+                  ))}
+                  {droppableProvided.placeholder}
+                </div>
+              )}
+            </Droppable>
+          </DragDropContext>
+          <Modal.ButtonRow>
+            <Button variant="secondary" fill="outline" onClick={onClose}>
+              <Trans i18nKey={'common.cancel'}>Cancel</Trans>
+            </Button>
+            <Button onClick={() => updateRulesOrder()} disabled={isUpdating}>
+              <Trans i18nKey={'common.save'}>Save</Trans>
+            </Button>
+          </Modal.ButtonRow>
+        </>
+      )}
     </Modal>
   );
 };
 
 interface ListItemProps extends React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement> {
   provided: DraggableProvided;
-  rule: CombinedRule;
+  rule: RulerRuleDTO;
   isClone?: boolean;
   isDragging?: boolean;
 }
@@ -139,6 +183,7 @@ interface ListItemProps extends React.HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement> {
 const ListItem = ({ provided, rule, isClone = false, isDragging = false }: ListItemProps) => {
   const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
 
+  // @TODO does this work with Grafana-managed recording rules too? Double check that.
   return (
     <div
       data-testid="reorder-alert-rule"
@@ -147,10 +192,15 @@ const ListItem = ({ provided, rule, isClone = false, isDragging = false }: ListI
       {...provided.draggableProps}
       {...provided.dragHandleProps}
     >
-      {isAlertingRule(rule.promRule) && <AlertStateTag state={rule.promRule.state} />}
-      {isRecordingRule(rule.promRule) && <Badge text={'Recording'} color={'blue'} />}
-      <div className={styles.listItemName}>{rule.name}</div>
-      <Icon name={'draggabledots'} />
+      {isGrafanaRulerRule(rule) && <div className={styles.listItemName}>{rule.grafana_alert.title}</div>}
+      {isRecordingRulerRule(rule) && (
+        <>
+          <div className={styles.listItemName}>{rule.record}</div>
+          <Badge text="Recording" color="purple" />
+        </>
+      )}
+      {isAlertingRulerRule(rule) && <div className={styles.listItemName}>{rule.alert}</div>}
+      <Icon name="draggabledots" />
     </div>
   );
 };
@@ -235,11 +285,3 @@ const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => ({
     height: theme.spacing(2),
   }),
 });
-
-export function reorder<T>(rules: T[], startIndex: number, endIndex: number): T[] {
-  const result = Array.from(rules);
-  const [removed] = result.splice(startIndex, 1);
-  result.splice(endIndex, 0, removed);
-
-  return result;
-}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesGroup.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesGroup.tsx
index bb66ef6421e..5ae024d814c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesGroup.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RulesGroup.tsx
@@ -6,17 +6,16 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
 import { selectors } from '@grafana/e2e-selectors';
 import { Badge, ConfirmModal, Icon, Spinner, Stack, Tooltip, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
-import { useDispatch } from 'app/types';
-import { CombinedRuleGroup, CombinedRuleNamespace } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { CombinedRuleGroup, CombinedRuleNamespace, RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import { LogMessages, logInfo } from '../../Analytics';
+import { useDeleteRuleGroup } from '../../hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleGroup';
 import { useFolder } from '../../hooks/useFolder';
 import { useHasRuler } from '../../hooks/useHasRuler';
-import { deleteRulesGroupAction } from '../../state/actions';
 import { useRulesAccess } from '../../utils/accessControlHooks';
 import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, isCloudRulesSource } from '../../utils/datasource';
 import { makeFolderLink, makeFolderSettingsLink } from '../../utils/misc';
-import { isFederatedRuleGroup, isGrafanaRulerRule } from '../../utils/rules';
+import { isFederatedRuleGroup, isGrafanaRulerRule, rulesSourceToDataSourceName } from '../../utils/rules';
 import { CollapseToggle } from '../CollapseToggle';
 import { RuleLocation } from '../RuleLocation';
 import { GrafanaRuleFolderExporter } from '../export/GrafanaRuleFolderExporter';
@@ -40,8 +39,8 @@ interface Props {
 
 export const RulesGroup = React.memo(({ group, namespace, expandAll, viewMode }: Props) => {
   const { rulesSource } = namespace;
-  const dispatch = useDispatch();
   const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
+  const [deleteRuleGroup] = useDeleteRuleGroup();
 
   const [isEditingGroup, setIsEditingGroup] = useState(false);
   const [isDeletingGroup, setIsDeletingGroup] = useState(false);
@@ -74,8 +73,13 @@ export const RulesGroup = React.memo(({ group, namespace, expandAll, viewMode }:
   const isListView = viewMode === 'list';
   const isGroupView = viewMode === 'grouped';
 
-  const deleteGroup = () => {
-    dispatch(deleteRulesGroupAction(namespace, group));
+  const deleteGroup = async () => {
+    const namespaceName = decodeGrafanaNamespace(namespace).name;
+    const groupName = group.name;
+    const dataSourceName = rulesSourceToDataSourceName(namespace.rulesSource);
+
+    const ruleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier = { namespaceName, groupName, dataSourceName };
+    await deleteRuleGroup.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier);
     setIsDeletingGroup(false);
   };
 
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useAddRuleToRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useAddRuleToRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8d3ddb718e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useAddRuleToRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`Creating a Data source managed rule should be able to add a rule to a existing rule group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "group-1",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "alert": "alert1",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "alert": "my new rule",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Creating a Data source managed rule should be able to add a rule to a new rule group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "15m",
+      "name": "new group",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {},
+          "for": "",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "",
+            "data": [],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "namespace_uid": "NAMESPACE_UID",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "my-group",
+            "title": "my new rule",
+            "uid": "mock-rule-uid-123",
+          },
+          "labels": {},
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/new%20namespace?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Creating a Grafana managed rule should be able to add a rule to a existing rule group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "grafana-group-1",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "Grafana-rule",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "annotations": {},
+          "for": "",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "",
+            "data": [],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "namespace_uid": "NAMESPACE_UID",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "my-group",
+            "title": "my new rule",
+            "uid": "mock-rule-uid-123",
+          },
+          "labels": {},
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/uuid020c61ef?subtype=cortex",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Creating a Grafana managed rule should be able to add a rule to a new rule group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "15m",
+      "name": "grafana-group-3",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {},
+          "for": "",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "",
+            "data": [],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "namespace_uid": "NAMESPACE_UID",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "my-group",
+            "title": "my new rule",
+            "uid": "mock-rule-uid-123",
+          },
+          "labels": {},
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/uuid020c61ef?subtype=cortex",
+  },
+]
+`;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useDeleteRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useDeleteRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b6ecad04404
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useDeleteRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`Grafana managed should be able to delete a Grafana managed rule group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "DELETE",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/uuid020c61ef/grafana-group-1?subtype=cortex",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`data-source managed should be able to delete a data-source managed rule group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "DELETE",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1/group-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useMoveRuleFromRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useMoveRuleFromRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2374935f47a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useMoveRuleFromRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`Moving a Data source managed rule should move a rule in an existing group to a new group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "name": "entirely new group name",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "updated rule title",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "DELETE",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1/group-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Moving a Data source managed rule should move a rule in an existing group to another existing group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "group-3",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 3",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 4",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "alert": "alert1",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "DELETE",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1/group-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Moving a Grafana managed rule should move a rule from an existing group to another group in the same namespace 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "name": "empty-group",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "Grafana-rule",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/uuid020c61ef?subtype=cortex",
+  },
+]
+`;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
index 62c6e987364..5357d0c6a6d 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
@@ -1,5 +1,83 @@
 // Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
 
+exports[`reorder rules for rule group should correctly reorder rules 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "https://mimir.local:9000/api/v1/status/buildinfo",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2/group-3?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "group-3",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 4",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "alert": "rule 3",
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "test alert",
+          },
+          "expr": "up = 1",
+          "labels": {
+            "severity": "warning",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "GET",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-2/group-3?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
 exports[`useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration should be able to move a Data Source managed rule group 1`] = `
 [
   {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1b0143c619e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/__snapshots__/useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup.test.tsx.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,311 @@
+// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP
+
+exports[`Updating a Data source managed rule should be able to move a rule if target group is different from current group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "name": "a new group",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "updated rule title",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+  {
+    "body": "",
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "DELETE",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1/group-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Updating a Data source managed rule should update a rule in an existing group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "group-1",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "updated rule title",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/mimir/api/v1/rules/namespace-1?subtype=mimir",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Updating a Grafana managed rule should move a rule in to another group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "grafana-group-2",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "Grafana-rule",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "updated rule title",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/uuid020c61ef?subtype=cortex",
+  },
+]
+`;
+
+exports[`Updating a Grafana managed rule should update a rule in an existing group 1`] = `
+[
+  {
+    "body": {
+      "interval": "1m",
+      "name": "grafana-group-1",
+      "rules": [
+        {
+          "annotations": {
+            "summary": "Test alert",
+          },
+          "for": "5m",
+          "grafana_alert": {
+            "condition": "A",
+            "data": [
+              {
+                "datasourceUid": "datasource-uid",
+                "model": {
+                  "datasource": {
+                    "type": "prometheus",
+                    "uid": "datasource-uid",
+                  },
+                  "expression": "vector(1)",
+                  "queryType": "alerting",
+                  "refId": "A",
+                },
+                "queryType": "alerting",
+                "refId": "A",
+                "relativeTimeRange": {
+                  "from": 1000,
+                  "to": 2000,
+                },
+              },
+            ],
+            "exec_err_state": "Error",
+            "is_paused": false,
+            "namespace_uid": "uuid020c61ef",
+            "no_data_state": "NoData",
+            "rule_group": "grafana-group-1",
+            "title": "updated rule title",
+            "uid": "4d7125fee983",
+          },
+          "labels": {
+            "region": "nasa",
+            "severity": "critical",
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+    "headers": [
+      [
+        "content-type",
+        "application/json",
+      ],
+      [
+        "accept",
+        "application/json, text/plain, */*",
+      ],
+    ],
+    "method": "POST",
+    "url": "http://localhost/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/uuid020c61ef?subtype=cortex",
+  },
+]
+`;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useAddRuleToRuleGroup.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useAddRuleToRuleGroup.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..acbcc25052c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useAddRuleToRuleGroup.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+import { render } from 'test/test-utils';
+import { byRole, byText } from 'testing-library-selector';
+
+import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types/accessControl';
+import { RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PostableRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { setupMswServer } from '../../mockApi';
+import { grantUserPermissions, mockGrafanaRulerRule, mockRulerAlertingRule } from '../../mocks';
+import { grafanaRulerGroupName, grafanaRulerNamespace } from '../../mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
+import { GROUP_1, NAMESPACE_1 } from '../../mocks/mimirRulerApi';
+import { mimirDataSource } from '../../mocks/server/configure';
+import { MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID } from '../../mocks/server/constants';
+import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from '../../mocks/server/events';
+import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { SerializeState } from '../useAsync';
+
+import { useAddRuleToRuleGroup } from './useUpsertRuleFromRuleGroup';
+
+setupMswServer();
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  grantUserPermissions([
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalRead,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalWrite,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleRead,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleCreate,
+  ]);
+});
+
+describe('Creating a Grafana managed rule', () => {
+  it('should be able to add a rule to a existing rule group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: grafanaRulerGroupName,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const rule = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ title: 'my new rule' });
+
+    const { user } = render(<AddRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} rule={rule} />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should be able to add a rule to a new rule group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: 'grafana-group-3',
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const rule = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ title: 'my new rule' });
+
+    const { user } = render(<AddRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} rule={rule} interval="15m" />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should not be able to add a rule to a non-existing namespace', async () => {
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: grafanaRulerGroupName,
+      namespaceName: 'does-not-exist',
+    };
+
+    const rule = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ title: 'my new rule' });
+
+    const { user } = render(<AddRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} rule={rule} />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/error/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('Creating a Data source managed rule', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mimirDataSource();
+  });
+
+  it('should be able to add a rule to a existing rule group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: GROUP_1,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const rule = mockRulerAlertingRule({ alert: 'my new rule' });
+
+    const { user } = render(<AddRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} rule={rule} />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should be able to add a rule to a new rule group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: 'new group',
+      namespaceName: 'new namespace',
+    };
+
+    const rule = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ title: 'my new rule' });
+
+    const { user } = render(<AddRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} rule={rule} interval="15m" />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+});
+
+type AddRuleTestComponentProps = {
+  ruleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier;
+  rule: PostableRuleDTO;
+  interval?: string;
+};
+
+const AddRuleTestComponent = ({ ruleGroupIdentifier, rule, interval }: AddRuleTestComponentProps) => {
+  const [addRule, requestState] = useAddRuleToRuleGroup();
+
+  const onClick = () => {
+    addRule.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier, rule, interval);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <button onClick={() => onClick()} />
+      <SerializeState state={requestState} />
+    </>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.test.tsx
index ff338724f4e..1472ac9d440 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.test.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
 import { HttpResponse } from 'msw';
 import { render } from 'test/test-utils';
 import { byRole, byText } from 'testing-library-selector';
@@ -19,6 +18,7 @@ import { grafanaRulerRule } from '../../mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
 import { setUpdateRulerRuleNamespaceHandler, setRulerRuleGroupHandler } from '../../mocks/server/configure';
 import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from '../../mocks/server/events';
 import { rulerRuleGroupHandler, updateRulerRuleNamespaceHandler } from '../../mocks/server/handlers/mimirRuler';
+import { fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier } from '../../utils/rule-id';
 import { getRuleGroupLocationFromCombinedRule } from '../../utils/rules';
 import { SerializeState } from '../useAsync';
 
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ describe('delete rule', () => {
 
     const capture = captureRequests();
 
-    render(<DeleteTestComponent rule={rules[1]} />);
+    const { user } = render(<DeleteTestComponent rule={rules[1]} />);
 
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
 
     expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
 
@@ -99,9 +99,9 @@ describe('delete rule', () => {
 
     const capture = captureRequests();
 
-    render(<DeleteTestComponent rule={rules[1]} />);
+    const { user } = render(<DeleteTestComponent rule={rules[1]} />);
 
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
 
     expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
 
@@ -111,14 +111,23 @@ describe('delete rule', () => {
   });
 
   it('should delete the entire group if no more rules are left', async () => {
-    const capture = captureRequests();
-
-    const combined = mockCombinedRule({
+    const rule = mockCombinedRule({
       rulerRule: grafanaRulerRule,
     });
 
-    render(<DeleteTestComponent rule={combined} />);
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    const group = mockRulerRuleGroup({
+      name: 'group-1',
+      rules: [rule.rulerRule!],
+    });
+
+    setRulerRuleGroupHandler({
+      response: HttpResponse.json(group),
+    });
+
+    const capture = captureRequests();
+
+    const { user } = render(<DeleteTestComponent rule={rule} />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
 
     expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
 
@@ -136,8 +145,9 @@ const DeleteTestComponent = ({ rule }: DeleteTestComponentProps) => {
 
   // always handle your errors!
   const ruleGroupID = getRuleGroupLocationFromCombinedRule(rule);
+  const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupID, rule.rulerRule!);
   const onClick = () => {
-    deleteRuleFromGroup.execute(ruleGroupID, rule.rulerRule!);
+    deleteRuleFromGroup.execute(ruleGroupID, ruleID);
   };
 
   return (
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.ts
index 29ecbbd3b50..d08a097d2a7 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleFromGroup.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-import { t } from 'i18next';
-
-import { RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
-import { RulerRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import { t } from 'app/core/internationalization';
+import { EditableRuleIdentifier, RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
 import { deleteRuleAction } from '../../reducers/ruler/ruleGroups';
@@ -20,10 +18,10 @@ export function useDeleteRuleFromGroup() {
   const [upsertRuleGroup] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.upsertRuleGroupForNamespace.useMutation();
   const [deleteRuleGroup] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.deleteRuleGroupFromNamespace.useMutation();
 
-  return useAsync(async (ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier, rule: RulerRuleDTO) => {
+  return useAsync(async (ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier, ruleIdentifier: EditableRuleIdentifier) => {
     const { groupName, namespaceName } = ruleGroup;
 
-    const action = deleteRuleAction({ rule });
+    const action = deleteRuleAction({ identifier: ruleIdentifier });
     const { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(ruleGroup, action);
 
     const successMessage = t('alerting.rules.delete-rule.success', 'Rule successfully deleted');
@@ -34,7 +32,7 @@ export function useDeleteRuleFromGroup() {
         rulerConfig,
         namespace: namespaceName,
         group: groupName,
-        requestOptions: { successMessage },
+        notificationOptions: { successMessage },
       }).unwrap();
     }
 
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ export function useDeleteRuleFromGroup() {
       rulerConfig,
       namespace: namespaceName,
       payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
-      requestOptions: { successMessage },
+      notificationOptions: { successMessage },
     }).unwrap();
   });
 }
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleGroup.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleGroup.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c49c214be28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleGroup.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+import { render } from 'test/test-utils';
+import { byRole, byText } from 'testing-library-selector';
+
+import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types/accessControl';
+import { RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+
+import { setupMswServer } from '../../mockApi';
+import { grantUserPermissions } from '../../mocks';
+import { grafanaRulerGroupName, grafanaRulerNamespace } from '../../mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
+import { GROUP_1, NAMESPACE_1 } from '../../mocks/mimirRulerApi';
+import { mimirDataSource } from '../../mocks/server/configure';
+import { MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID } from '../../mocks/server/constants';
+import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from '../../mocks/server/events';
+import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { SerializeState } from '../useAsync';
+
+import { useDeleteRuleGroup } from './useDeleteRuleGroup';
+
+setupMswServer();
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  grantUserPermissions([
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalWrite,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalRead,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleDelete,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleRead,
+  ]);
+});
+
+describe('data-source managed', () => {
+  it('should be able to delete a data-source managed rule group', async () => {
+    mimirDataSource();
+
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'DELETE');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: GROUP_1,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const { user } = render(<DeleteTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('Grafana managed', () => {
+  it('should be able to delete a Grafana managed rule group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'DELETE');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: grafanaRulerGroupName,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const { user } = render(<DeleteTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+});
+
+type DeleteTestComponentProps = {
+  ruleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier;
+};
+const DeleteTestComponent = ({ ruleGroupIdentifier }: DeleteTestComponentProps) => {
+  const [deleteRuleGroup, requestState] = useDeleteRuleGroup();
+
+  const onClick = () => {
+    deleteRuleGroup.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <button onClick={() => onClick()} />
+      <SerializeState state={requestState} />
+    </>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleGroup.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleGroup.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6db792e3d54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useDeleteRuleGroup.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { dispatch } from 'app/store/store';
+import { RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+
+import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
+import { featureDiscoveryApi } from '../../api/featureDiscoveryApi';
+import { fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction } from '../../state/actions';
+import { useAsync } from '../useAsync';
+
+import { RulerNotSupportedError } from './useProduceNewRuleGroup';
+
+const { useDeleteRuleGroupFromNamespaceMutation } = alertRuleApi;
+const { useLazyDiscoverDsFeaturesQuery } = featureDiscoveryApi;
+
+export function useDeleteRuleGroup() {
+  const [deleteRuleGroup] = useDeleteRuleGroupFromNamespaceMutation();
+  const [discoverDataSourceFeature] = useLazyDiscoverDsFeaturesQuery();
+
+  return useAsync(async (ruleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier) => {
+    const { dataSourceName, namespaceName, groupName } = ruleGroupIdentifier;
+
+    const { rulerConfig } = await discoverDataSourceFeature({ rulesSourceName: dataSourceName }).unwrap();
+    if (!rulerConfig) {
+      throw RulerNotSupportedError(dataSourceName);
+    }
+
+    const result = await deleteRuleGroup({ rulerConfig, namespace: namespaceName, group: groupName }).unwrap();
+
+    // @TODO remove this once we can use tags to invalidate
+    await dispatch(fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName: dataSourceName }));
+
+    return result;
+  });
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useMoveRuleFromRuleGroup.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useMoveRuleFromRuleGroup.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2fda700d4ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useMoveRuleFromRuleGroup.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,242 @@
+import { produce } from 'immer';
+import { render } from 'test/test-utils';
+import { byRole, byText } from 'testing-library-selector';
+
+import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types/accessControl';
+import { EditableRuleIdentifier, GrafanaRuleIdentifier, RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PostableRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { setupMswServer } from '../../mockApi';
+import { grantUserPermissions } from '../../mocks';
+import {
+  grafanaRulerEmptyGroup,
+  grafanaRulerGroup,
+  grafanaRulerNamespace,
+  grafanaRulerRule,
+} from '../../mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
+import { group1, GROUP_3, NAMESPACE_1, NAMESPACE_2 } from '../../mocks/mimirRulerApi';
+import { mimirDataSource } from '../../mocks/server/configure';
+import { MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID } from '../../mocks/server/constants';
+import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from '../../mocks/server/events';
+import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier } from '../../utils/rule-id';
+import { SerializeState } from '../useAsync';
+
+import { useMoveRuleToRuleGroup } from './useUpsertRuleFromRuleGroup';
+
+setupMswServer();
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  grantUserPermissions([
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalRead,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalWrite,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleRead,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleCreate,
+  ]);
+});
+
+describe('Moving a Grafana managed rule', () => {
+  it('should move a rule from an existing group to another group in the same namespace', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const currentGroup = grafanaRulerGroup;
+    const targetGroup = grafanaRulerEmptyGroup;
+
+    const ruleToMove = grafanaRulerGroup.rules[0];
+
+    const currentRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: currentGroup.name,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const targetRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: targetGroup.name,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(currentRuleGroupID, ruleToMove);
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <MoveRuleTestComponent
+        currentRuleGroupIdentifier={currentRuleGroupID}
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier={targetRuleGroupID}
+        ruleID={ruleID}
+        rule={ruleToMove}
+      />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should fail if the rule group does not exist', async () => {
+    const currentRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: 'does-not-exist',
+      namespaceName: 'does-not-exist',
+    };
+
+    const ruleID: GrafanaRuleIdentifier = {
+      ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      uid: 'does-not-exist',
+    };
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <MoveRuleTestComponent
+        currentRuleGroupIdentifier={currentRuleGroupID}
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier={currentRuleGroupID}
+        ruleID={ruleID}
+        rule={grafanaRulerRule}
+      />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/error/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('Moving a Data source managed rule', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mimirDataSource();
+  });
+
+  it('should move a rule in an existing group to a new group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST' || r.method === 'DELETE');
+
+    const groupToUpdate = group1;
+    const ruleToMove = groupToUpdate.rules[0];
+
+    const currentRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: groupToUpdate.name,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const targetRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: 'entirely new group name',
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(currentRuleGroupID, ruleToMove);
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <MoveRuleTestComponent
+        currentRuleGroupIdentifier={currentRuleGroupID}
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier={targetRuleGroupID}
+        ruleID={ruleID}
+        rule={newRule}
+      />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should move a rule in an existing group to another existing group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST' || r.method === 'DELETE');
+
+    const groupToUpdate = group1;
+    const ruleToMove = groupToUpdate.rules[0];
+
+    const currentRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: groupToUpdate.name,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const targetRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: GROUP_3,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_2,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(currentRuleGroupID, ruleToMove);
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <MoveRuleTestComponent
+        currentRuleGroupIdentifier={currentRuleGroupID}
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier={targetRuleGroupID}
+        ruleID={ruleID}
+        rule={ruleToMove}
+      />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should fail if the rule group does not exist', async () => {
+    const groupToUpdate = group1;
+    const ruleToUpdate = groupToUpdate.rules[0];
+
+    const curentRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: 'does-not-exist',
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(curentRuleGroupID, ruleToUpdate);
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <MoveRuleTestComponent
+        currentRuleGroupIdentifier={curentRuleGroupID}
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier={curentRuleGroupID}
+        ruleID={ruleID}
+        rule={newRule}
+      />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/error/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+type MoveRuleTestComponentProps = {
+  currentRuleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier;
+  targetRuleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier;
+  ruleID: EditableRuleIdentifier;
+  rule: PostableRuleDTO;
+};
+
+const MoveRuleTestComponent = ({
+  currentRuleGroupIdentifier,
+  targetRuleGroupIdentifier,
+  ruleID,
+  rule,
+}: MoveRuleTestComponentProps) => {
+  const [moveRule, requestState] = useMoveRuleToRuleGroup();
+
+  const onClick = () => {
+    moveRule.execute(currentRuleGroupIdentifier, targetRuleGroupIdentifier, ruleID, rule);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <button onClick={() => onClick()} />
+      <SerializeState state={requestState} />
+    </>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.test.tsx
index 1af9dc84ab8..6e0c92d9b9f 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.test.tsx
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ describe('pause rule', () => {
     expect(byText(/uninitialized/i).get()).toBeInTheDocument();
 
     await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
-    expect(await byText(/error: No rule with UID/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(await byText(/error: no rule matching identifier/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
   it('should be able to handle error', async () => {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.ts
index a6e80e0793a..3eb31a4e4d2 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/usePauseAlertRule.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-import { t } from 'i18next';
-
+import { t } from 'app/core/internationalization';
 import { RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
@@ -16,21 +15,21 @@ export function usePauseRuleInGroup() {
   const [produceNewRuleGroup] = useProduceNewRuleGroup();
   const [upsertRuleGroup] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.upsertRuleGroupForNamespace.useMutation();
 
+  const rulePausedMessage = t('alerting.rules.pause-rule.success', 'Rule evaluation paused');
+  const ruleResumedMessage = t('alerting.rules.resume-rule.success', 'Rule evaluation resumed');
+
   return useAsync(async (ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier, uid: string, pause: boolean) => {
     const { namespaceName } = ruleGroup;
 
     const action = pauseRuleAction({ uid, pause });
     const { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(ruleGroup, action);
 
-    const rulePauseMessage = t('alerting.rules.pause-rule.success', 'Rule evaluation paused');
-    const ruleResumeMessage = t('alerting.rules.resume-rule.success', 'Rule evaluation resumed');
-
     return upsertRuleGroup({
       rulerConfig,
       namespace: namespaceName,
       payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
-      requestOptions: {
-        successMessage: pause ? rulePauseMessage : ruleResumeMessage,
+      notificationOptions: {
+        successMessage: pause ? rulePausedMessage : ruleResumedMessage,
       },
     }).unwrap();
   });
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useProduceNewRuleGroup.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useProduceNewRuleGroup.ts
index 4fc62d1e031..f7c54c1121b 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useProduceNewRuleGroup.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useProduceNewRuleGroup.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
 import { Action } from '@reduxjs/toolkit';
 
-import { dispatch, getState } from 'app/store/store';
 import { RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
+import { featureDiscoveryApi } from '../../api/featureDiscoveryApi';
+import { notFoundToNullOrThrow } from '../../api/util';
 import { ruleGroupReducer } from '../../reducers/ruler/ruleGroups';
-import { fetchRulesSourceBuildInfoAction, getDataSourceRulerConfig } from '../../state/actions';
+import { DEFAULT_GROUP_EVALUATION_INTERVAL } from '../../utils/rule-form';
+
+const { useLazyGetRuleGroupForNamespaceQuery } = alertRuleApi;
+const { useLazyDiscoverDsFeaturesQuery } = featureDiscoveryApi;
+
+export const RulerNotSupportedError = (name: string) =>
+  new Error(`DataSource ${name} does not support ruler API or does not have the ruler API enabled.`);
 
 /**
  * Hook for reuse that handles freshly fetching a rule group's definition, applying an action to it,
@@ -18,10 +26,11 @@ import { fetchRulesSourceBuildInfoAction, getDataSourceRulerConfig } from '../..
  * @throws
  */
 export function useProduceNewRuleGroup() {
-  const [fetchRuleGroup, requestState] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.getRuleGroupForNamespace.useLazyQuery();
+  const [fetchRuleGroup, requestState] = useLazyGetRuleGroupForNamespaceQuery();
+  const [discoverDataSourceFeatures] = useLazyDiscoverDsFeaturesQuery();
 
   /**
-   * This function will fetch the latest configuration we have for the rule group, apply a diff to it via a reducer and sends
+   * This function will fetch the latest configuration we have for the rule group, apply a diff to it via a reducer and
    * returns the result.
    *
    * The API does not allow operations on a single rule and will always overwrite the existing rule group with the payload.
@@ -33,20 +42,34 @@ export function useProduceNewRuleGroup() {
   const produceNewRuleGroup = async (ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier, action: Action) => {
     const { dataSourceName, groupName, namespaceName } = ruleGroup;
 
-    // @TODO we should really not work with the redux state (getState) here
-    await dispatch(fetchRulesSourceBuildInfoAction({ rulesSourceName: dataSourceName }));
-    const rulerConfig = getDataSourceRulerConfig(getState, dataSourceName);
+    const { rulerConfig } = await discoverDataSourceFeatures({ rulesSourceName: dataSourceName }).unwrap();
+    if (!rulerConfig) {
+      throw RulerNotSupportedError(dataSourceName);
+    }
 
     const latestRuleGroupDefinition = await fetchRuleGroup({
       rulerConfig,
       namespace: namespaceName,
       group: groupName,
-    }).unwrap();
+      // @TODO maybe only supress if 404?
+      notificationOptions: { showErrorAlert: false },
+    })
+      .unwrap()
+      .catch(notFoundToNullOrThrow);
 
-    const newRuleGroupDefinition = ruleGroupReducer(latestRuleGroupDefinition, action);
+    const newRuleGroupDefinition = ruleGroupReducer(
+      latestRuleGroupDefinition ?? createBlankRuleGroup(ruleGroup.groupName),
+      action
+    );
 
     return { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig };
   };
 
   return [produceNewRuleGroup, requestState] as const;
 }
+
+const createBlankRuleGroup = (name: string): PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO => ({
+  name,
+  interval: DEFAULT_GROUP_EVALUATION_INTERVAL,
+  rules: [],
+});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx
index 8785f249115..fa106766b22 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.test.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
 import { render } from 'test/test-utils';
 import { byRole, byText } from 'testing-library-selector';
 
@@ -12,10 +11,16 @@ import { NAMESPACE_2, namespace2, GROUP_1, NAMESPACE_1 } from '../../mocks/mimir
 import { mimirDataSource } from '../../mocks/server/configure';
 import { MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID } from '../../mocks/server/constants';
 import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from '../../mocks/server/events';
+import { SwapOperation } from '../../reducers/ruler/ruleGroups';
 import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from '../../utils/datasource';
 import { SerializeState } from '../useAsync';
 
-import { useMoveRuleGroup, useRenameRuleGroup, useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration } from './useUpdateRuleGroup';
+import {
+  useMoveRuleGroup,
+  useRenameRuleGroup,
+  useReorderRuleForRuleGroup,
+  useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration,
+} from './useUpdateRuleGroup';
 
 setupMswServer();
 
@@ -27,8 +32,8 @@ describe('useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration', () => {
   it('should update a rule group interval', async () => {
     const capture = captureRequests();
 
-    render(<UpdateRuleGroupComponent />);
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    const { user } = render(<UpdateRuleGroupComponent />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
     expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
 
     const requests = await capture;
@@ -39,8 +44,8 @@ describe('useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration', () => {
   it('should rename a rule group', async () => {
     const capture = captureRequests();
 
-    render(<RenameRuleGroupComponent />);
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    const { user } = render(<RenameRuleGroupComponent />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
     expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
 
     const requests = await capture;
@@ -49,14 +54,14 @@ describe('useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration', () => {
   });
 
   it('should throw if we are trying to merge rule groups', async () => {
-    render(<RenameRuleGroupComponent group={grafanaRulerGroupName2} />);
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    const { user } = render(<RenameRuleGroupComponent group={grafanaRulerGroupName2} />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
     expect(await byText(/error:.+not supported.+/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
   it('should not be able to move a Grafana managed rule group', async () => {
-    render(<MoveGrafanaManagedRuleGroupComponent />);
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    const { user } = render(<MoveGrafanaManagedRuleGroupComponent />);
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
     expect(await byText(/error:.+not supported.+/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 
@@ -64,8 +69,10 @@ describe('useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration', () => {
     mimirDataSource();
     const capture = captureRequests();
 
-    render(<MoveDataSourceManagedRuleGroupComponent namespace={NAMESPACE_2} group={'a-new-group'} interval={'2m'} />);
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    const { user } = render(
+      <MoveDataSourceManagedRuleGroupComponent namespace={NAMESPACE_2} group={'a-new-group'} interval={'2m'} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
     expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
 
     const requests = await capture;
@@ -76,14 +83,33 @@ describe('useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration', () => {
   it('should not move a Data Source managed rule group to namespace with existing target group name', async () => {
     mimirDataSource();
 
-    render(
+    const { user } = render(
       <MoveDataSourceManagedRuleGroupComponent namespace={NAMESPACE_2} group={namespace2[0].name} interval={'2m'} />
     );
-    await userEvent.click(byRole('button').get());
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
     expect(await byText(/error:.+not supported.+/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 });
 
+describe('reorder rules for rule group', () => {
+  it('should correctly reorder rules', async () => {
+    mimirDataSource();
+    const capture = captureRequests();
+
+    const swaps: SwapOperation[] = [[1, 0]];
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <ReorderRuleGroupComponent namespace={NAMESPACE_2} group={namespace2[0].name} swaps={swaps} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+});
+
 const UpdateRuleGroupComponent = () => {
   const [updateRuleGroup, requestState] = useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration();
 
@@ -161,3 +187,26 @@ const MoveDataSourceManagedRuleGroupComponent = ({
     </>
   );
 };
+
+type ReorderRuleGroupComponentProps = {
+  namespace: string;
+  group: string;
+  swaps: SwapOperation[];
+};
+
+const ReorderRuleGroupComponent = ({ namespace, group, swaps }: ReorderRuleGroupComponentProps) => {
+  const [reorderRules, requestState] = useReorderRuleForRuleGroup();
+
+  const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+    dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+    groupName: group,
+    namespaceName: namespace,
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <button onClick={() => reorderRules.execute(ruleGroupID, swaps)} />
+      <SerializeState state={requestState} />
+    </>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.ts
index e10c9604048..9c740c4b289 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleGroup.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
-import { t } from 'i18next';
-
+import { t } from 'app/core/internationalization';
 import { RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
 import { notFoundToNullOrThrow } from '../../api/util';
-import { updateRuleGroupAction, moveRuleGroupAction, renameRuleGroupAction } from '../../reducers/ruler/ruleGroups';
+import {
+  updateRuleGroupAction,
+  moveRuleGroupAction,
+  renameRuleGroupAction,
+  reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction,
+} from '../../reducers/ruler/ruleGroups';
 import { isGrafanaRulesSource } from '../../utils/datasource';
 import { useAsync } from '../useAsync';
 
 import { useProduceNewRuleGroup } from './useProduceNewRuleGroup';
 
+const ruleUpdateSuccessMessage = () => t('alerting.rule-groups.update.success', 'Successfully updated rule group');
+
 /**
  * Update an existing rule group, currently only supports updating the interval.
  * Use "useRenameRuleGroup" or "useMoveRuleGroup" for updating the namespace or group name.
@@ -24,13 +30,11 @@ export function useUpdateRuleGroupConfiguration() {
     const action = updateRuleGroupAction({ interval });
     const { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(ruleGroup, action);
 
-    const successMessage = t('alerting.rule-groups.update.success', 'Successfully updated rule group');
-
     return upsertRuleGroup({
       rulerConfig,
       namespace: namespaceName,
       payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
-      requestOptions: { successMessage },
+      notificationOptions: { successMessage: ruleUpdateSuccessMessage() },
     }).unwrap();
   });
 }
@@ -56,11 +60,11 @@ export function useMoveRuleGroup() {
         throw new Error('Moving a Grafana-managed rule group to another folder is currently not supported.');
       }
 
-      const action = moveRuleGroupAction({ namespaceName, groupName, interval });
+      const action = moveRuleGroupAction({ newNamespaceName: namespaceName, groupName, interval });
       const { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(ruleGroup, action);
 
       const oldNamespace = ruleGroup.namespaceName;
-      const targetNamespace = action.payload.namespaceName;
+      const targetNamespace = action.payload.newNamespaceName;
 
       const oldGroupName = ruleGroup.groupName;
       const targetGroupName = action.payload.groupName;
@@ -74,7 +78,7 @@ export function useMoveRuleGroup() {
           namespace: targetNamespace,
           group: targetGroupName,
           // since this could throw 404
-          requestOptions: { showErrorAlert: false },
+          notificationOptions: { showErrorAlert: false },
         })
           .unwrap()
           .catch(notFoundToNullOrThrow);
@@ -90,7 +94,7 @@ export function useMoveRuleGroup() {
         rulerConfig,
         namespace: targetNamespace,
         payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
-        requestOptions: { successMessage },
+        notificationOptions: { successMessage },
       }).unwrap();
 
       // now remove the old one
@@ -98,7 +102,7 @@ export function useMoveRuleGroup() {
         rulerConfig,
         namespace: oldNamespace,
         group: oldGroupName,
-        requestOptions: { showSuccessAlert: false },
+        notificationOptions: { showSuccessAlert: false },
       }).unwrap();
 
       return result;
@@ -132,7 +136,7 @@ export function useRenameRuleGroup() {
       namespace: namespaceName,
       group: newGroupName,
       // since this could throw 404
-      requestOptions: { showErrorAlert: false },
+      notificationOptions: { showErrorAlert: false },
     })
       .unwrap()
       .catch(notFoundToNullOrThrow);
@@ -147,7 +151,7 @@ export function useRenameRuleGroup() {
       rulerConfig,
       namespace: namespaceName,
       payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
-      requestOptions: { successMessage },
+      notificationOptions: { successMessage },
     }).unwrap();
 
     // now delete the group we renamed
@@ -155,9 +159,32 @@ export function useRenameRuleGroup() {
       rulerConfig,
       namespace: namespaceName,
       group: oldGroupName,
-      requestOptions: { showSuccessAlert: false },
+      notificationOptions: { showSuccessAlert: false },
     }).unwrap();
 
     return result;
   });
 }
+
+/**
+ * Reorder rules within an existing rule group. Pass in an array of swap operations Array<[oldIndex, newIndex]>.
+ * This prevents rules from accidentally being updated and only allows indices to be moved around.
+ */
+export function useReorderRuleForRuleGroup() {
+  const [produceNewRuleGroup] = useProduceNewRuleGroup();
+  const [upsertRuleGroup] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.upsertRuleGroupForNamespace.useMutation();
+
+  return useAsync(async (ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier, swaps: Array<[number, number]>) => {
+    const { namespaceName } = ruleGroup;
+
+    const action = reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction({ swaps });
+    const { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(ruleGroup, action);
+
+    return upsertRuleGroup({
+      rulerConfig,
+      namespace: namespaceName,
+      payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
+      notificationOptions: { successMessage: ruleUpdateSuccessMessage() },
+    }).unwrap();
+  });
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2324ed363db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+import { produce } from 'immer';
+import { render } from 'test/test-utils';
+import { byRole, byText } from 'testing-library-selector';
+
+import { AccessControlAction } from 'app/types/accessControl';
+import { EditableRuleIdentifier, GrafanaRuleIdentifier, RuleGroupIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PostableRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { setupMswServer } from '../../mockApi';
+import { grantUserPermissions } from '../../mocks';
+import {
+  grafanaRulerGroupName,
+  grafanaRulerGroupName2,
+  grafanaRulerNamespace,
+  grafanaRulerRule,
+} from '../../mocks/grafanaRulerApi';
+import { NAMESPACE_1, group1 } from '../../mocks/mimirRulerApi';
+import { mimirDataSource } from '../../mocks/server/configure';
+import { MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID } from '../../mocks/server/constants';
+import { captureRequests, serializeRequests } from '../../mocks/server/events';
+import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier } from '../../utils/rule-id';
+import { SerializeState } from '../useAsync';
+
+import { useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup } from './useUpsertRuleFromRuleGroup';
+
+setupMswServer();
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  grantUserPermissions([
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalRead,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleExternalWrite,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleRead,
+    AccessControlAction.AlertingRuleCreate,
+  ]);
+});
+
+describe('Updating a Grafana managed rule', () => {
+  it('should update a rule in an existing group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: grafanaRulerGroupName,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID: GrafanaRuleIdentifier = {
+      ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      uid: grafanaRulerRule.grafana_alert.uid,
+    };
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} ruleID={ruleID} rule={newRule} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should move a rule in to another group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: grafanaRulerGroupName,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const targetRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: grafanaRulerGroupName2,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID: GrafanaRuleIdentifier = {
+      ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      uid: grafanaRulerRule.grafana_alert.uid,
+    };
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent
+        ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID}
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier={targetRuleGroupID}
+        ruleID={ruleID}
+        rule={newRule}
+      />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should fail if the rule does not exist in the group', async () => {
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: grafanaRulerGroupName,
+      namespaceName: grafanaRulerNamespace.uid,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID: GrafanaRuleIdentifier = {
+      ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      uid: 'does-not-exist',
+    };
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} ruleID={ruleID} rule={newRule} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/error: no rule matching identifier found/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('should fail if the rule group does not exist', async () => {
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      groupName: 'does-not-exist',
+      namespaceName: 'does-not-exist',
+    };
+
+    const ruleID: GrafanaRuleIdentifier = {
+      ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
+      uid: 'does-not-exist',
+    };
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} ruleID={ruleID} rule={newRule} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/error/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('Updating a Data source managed rule', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mimirDataSource();
+  });
+
+  it('should update a rule in an existing group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST');
+
+    const groupToUpdate = group1;
+    const ruleToUpdate = groupToUpdate.rules[0];
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: groupToUpdate.name,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupID, ruleToUpdate);
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} ruleID={ruleID} rule={newRule} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should be able to move a rule if target group is different from current group', async () => {
+    const capture = captureRequests((r) => r.method === 'POST' || r.method === 'DELETE');
+
+    const groupToUpdate = group1;
+    const ruleToUpdate = groupToUpdate.rules[0];
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: groupToUpdate.name,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const targetRuleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: 'a new group',
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupID, ruleToUpdate);
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent
+        ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID}
+        targetRuleGroupIdentifier={targetRuleGroupID}
+        ruleID={ruleID}
+        rule={newRule}
+      />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/success/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+    const requests = await capture;
+    const serializedRequests = await serializeRequests(requests);
+    expect(serializedRequests).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('should fail if the rule does not exist in the group', async () => {
+    const groupToUpdate = group1;
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: groupToUpdate.name,
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupID, newRule);
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} ruleID={ruleID} rule={newRule} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/error: no rule matching identifier found/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('should fail if the rule group does not exist', async () => {
+    const groupToUpdate = group1;
+    const ruleToUpdate = groupToUpdate.rules[0];
+
+    const ruleGroupID: RuleGroupIdentifier = {
+      dataSourceName: MIMIR_DATASOURCE_UID,
+      groupName: 'does-not-exist',
+      namespaceName: NAMESPACE_1,
+    };
+
+    const ruleID = fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(ruleGroupID, ruleToUpdate);
+
+    const newRule = produce(grafanaRulerRule, (draft) => {
+      draft.grafana_alert.title = 'updated rule title';
+    });
+
+    const { user } = render(
+      <UpdateRuleTestComponent ruleGroupIdentifier={ruleGroupID} ruleID={ruleID} rule={newRule} />
+    );
+    await user.click(byRole('button').get());
+
+    expect(await byText(/error/i).find()).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+type UpdateRuleTestComponentProps = {
+  ruleGroupIdentifier: RuleGroupIdentifier;
+  targetRuleGroupIdentifier?: RuleGroupIdentifier;
+  ruleID: EditableRuleIdentifier;
+  rule: PostableRuleDTO;
+};
+
+const UpdateRuleTestComponent = ({
+  ruleGroupIdentifier,
+  targetRuleGroupIdentifier,
+  ruleID,
+  rule,
+}: UpdateRuleTestComponentProps) => {
+  const [updateRule, requestState] = useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup();
+
+  const onClick = () => {
+    updateRule.execute(ruleGroupIdentifier, ruleID, rule, targetRuleGroupIdentifier);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <button onClick={() => onClick()} />
+      <SerializeState state={requestState} />
+    </>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpsertRuleFromRuleGroup.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpsertRuleFromRuleGroup.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..adc79753748
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/ruleGroup/useUpsertRuleFromRuleGroup.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+import { produce } from 'immer';
+import { isEqual } from 'lodash';
+
+import { t } from 'app/core/internationalization';
+import { dispatch } from 'app/store/store';
+import { RuleGroupIdentifier, EditableRuleIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PostableRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { alertRuleApi } from '../../api/alertRuleApi';
+import { addRuleAction, updateRuleAction } from '../../reducers/ruler/ruleGroups';
+import { fetchRulerRulesAction } from '../../state/actions';
+import { isGrafanaRuleIdentifier, isGrafanaRulerRule } from '../../utils/rules';
+import { useAsync } from '../useAsync';
+
+import { useDeleteRuleFromGroup } from './useDeleteRuleFromGroup';
+import { useProduceNewRuleGroup } from './useProduceNewRuleGroup';
+
+/**
+ * This hook will add a single rule to a rule group – a new rule group will be created if it does not already exist.
+ */
+export function useAddRuleToRuleGroup() {
+  const [produceNewRuleGroup] = useProduceNewRuleGroup();
+  const [upsertRuleGroup] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.upsertRuleGroupForNamespace.useMutation();
+
+  const successMessage = t('alerting.rules.add-rule.success', 'Rule added successfully');
+
+  return useAsync(async (ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier, rule: PostableRuleDTO, interval?: string) => {
+    const { namespaceName, dataSourceName } = ruleGroup;
+
+    // the new rule might have to be created in a new group, pass name and interval (optional) to the action
+    const action = addRuleAction({ rule, interval, groupName: ruleGroup.groupName });
+    const { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(ruleGroup, action);
+
+    const result = upsertRuleGroup({
+      rulerConfig,
+      namespace: namespaceName,
+      payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
+      notificationOptions: { successMessage },
+    }).unwrap();
+
+    // @TODO remove
+    await dispatch(fetchRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName: dataSourceName }));
+
+    return result;
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * This hook will update an existing rule within a rule group, does not support moving the rule to another namespace / group
+ */
+export function useUpdateRuleInRuleGroup() {
+  const [produceNewRuleGroup] = useProduceNewRuleGroup();
+  const [moveRuleToGroup] = useMoveRuleToRuleGroup();
+  const [upsertRuleGroup] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.upsertRuleGroupForNamespace.useMutation();
+
+  const successMessage = t('alerting.rules.update-rule.success', 'Rule updated successfully');
+
+  return useAsync(
+    async (
+      ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier,
+      ruleIdentifier: EditableRuleIdentifier,
+      ruleDefinition: PostableRuleDTO,
+      targetRuleGroup?: RuleGroupIdentifier
+    ) => {
+      const { namespaceName } = ruleGroup;
+      const finalRuleDefinition = copyGrafanaUID(ruleIdentifier, ruleDefinition);
+
+      // check if the existing rule and the form values have the same rule group identifier
+      const sameTargetRuleGroup = isEqual(ruleGroup, targetRuleGroup);
+      if (targetRuleGroup && !sameTargetRuleGroup) {
+        const result = moveRuleToGroup.execute(ruleGroup, targetRuleGroup, ruleIdentifier, ruleDefinition);
+        return result;
+      }
+
+      const action = updateRuleAction({ identifier: ruleIdentifier, rule: finalRuleDefinition });
+      const { newRuleGroupDefinition, rulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(ruleGroup, action);
+
+      return upsertRuleGroup({
+        rulerConfig,
+        namespace: namespaceName,
+        payload: newRuleGroupDefinition,
+        notificationOptions: { successMessage },
+      }).unwrap();
+    }
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * This hook will move an existing rule to another namespace or group. The rule definition can also be modified.
+ * For Grafana-managed rules we can perform a single atomic move operation by copying the rule UID from the previous rule definition.
+ */
+export function useMoveRuleToRuleGroup() {
+  const [produceNewRuleGroup] = useProduceNewRuleGroup();
+  const [deleteRuleFromGroup] = useDeleteRuleFromGroup();
+  const [upsertRuleGroup] = alertRuleApi.endpoints.upsertRuleGroupForNamespace.useMutation();
+
+  const successMessage = t('alerting.rules.update-rule.success', 'Rule updated successfully');
+
+  return useAsync(
+    async (
+      currentRuleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier,
+      targetRuleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier,
+      ruleIdentifier: EditableRuleIdentifier,
+      ruleDefinition: PostableRuleDTO
+    ) => {
+      const finalRuleDefinition = copyGrafanaUID(ruleIdentifier, ruleDefinition);
+
+      // 1. add the rule to the new namespace / group / ruler target
+      const addRuleToGroup = addRuleAction({ rule: finalRuleDefinition });
+      const { newRuleGroupDefinition: newTargetGroup, rulerConfig: targetGroupRulerConfig } = await produceNewRuleGroup(
+        targetRuleGroup,
+        addRuleToGroup
+      );
+
+      const result = await upsertRuleGroup({
+        rulerConfig: targetGroupRulerConfig,
+        namespace: currentRuleGroup.namespaceName,
+        payload: newTargetGroup,
+        notificationOptions: { successMessage },
+      }).unwrap();
+
+      // 2. if not Grafana-managed: remove the rule from the existing namespace / group / ruler
+      if (!isGrafanaRuleIdentifier(ruleIdentifier)) {
+        await deleteRuleFromGroup.execute(currentRuleGroup, ruleIdentifier);
+      }
+
+      return result;
+    }
+  );
+}
+
+function copyGrafanaUID(ruleIdentifier: EditableRuleIdentifier, ruleDefinition: PostableRuleDTO) {
+  const isGrafanaManagedRuleIdentifier = isGrafanaRuleIdentifier(ruleIdentifier);
+
+  // by copying over the rule UID the backend will perform an atomic move operation
+  // so there is no need for us to manually remove it from the previous group
+  return produce(ruleDefinition, (draft) => {
+    const isGrafanaManagedRuleDefinition = isGrafanaRulerRule(draft);
+
+    if (isGrafanaManagedRuleIdentifier && isGrafanaManagedRuleDefinition) {
+      draft.grafana_alert.uid = ruleIdentifier.uid;
+    }
+  });
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRule.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRule.ts
index 60782c18315..8e1e0dd4987 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRule.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRule.ts
@@ -1,65 +1,16 @@
 import { useEffect, useMemo } from 'react';
 import { useAsync } from 'react-use';
 
-import { useDispatch } from 'app/types';
-import {
-  CombinedRule,
-  RuleIdentifier,
-  RuleNamespace,
-  RulerDataSourceConfig,
-  RulesSource,
-  RuleWithLocation,
-} from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
-import { RulerRuleGroupDTO, RulerRulesConfigDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import { CombinedRule, RuleIdentifier, RulesSource, RuleWithLocation } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { RulerRuleGroupDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { alertRuleApi } from '../api/alertRuleApi';
 import { featureDiscoveryApi } from '../api/featureDiscoveryApi';
-import { fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction } from '../state/actions';
-import { getDataSourceByName, GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, isGrafanaRulesSource } from '../utils/datasource';
-import { AsyncRequestMapSlice, AsyncRequestState, initialAsyncRequestState } from '../utils/redux';
+import { getDataSourceByName } from '../utils/datasource';
 import * as ruleId from '../utils/rule-id';
-import {
-  isCloudRuleIdentifier,
-  isGrafanaRuleIdentifier,
-  isPrometheusRuleIdentifier,
-  isRulerNotSupportedResponse,
-} from '../utils/rules';
+import { isCloudRuleIdentifier, isGrafanaRuleIdentifier, isPrometheusRuleIdentifier } from '../utils/rules';
 
-import { attachRulerRulesToCombinedRules, useCombinedRuleNamespaces } from './useCombinedRuleNamespaces';
-import { useUnifiedAlertingSelector } from './useUnifiedAlertingSelector';
-
-export function useCombinedRulesMatching(
-  ruleName: string | undefined,
-  ruleSourceName: string | undefined
-): AsyncRequestState<CombinedRule[]> {
-  const requestState = useCombinedRulesLoader(ruleSourceName);
-  const combinedRules = useCombinedRuleNamespaces(ruleSourceName);
-
-  const rules = useMemo(() => {
-    if (!ruleName || !ruleSourceName || combinedRules.length === 0) {
-      return [];
-    }
-
-    const rules: CombinedRule[] = [];
-
-    for (const namespace of combinedRules) {
-      for (const group of namespace.groups) {
-        for (const rule of group.rules) {
-          if (rule.name === ruleName) {
-            rules.push(rule);
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    return rules;
-  }, [ruleName, ruleSourceName, combinedRules]);
-
-  return {
-    ...requestState,
-    result: rules,
-  };
-}
+import { attachRulerRulesToCombinedRules } from './useCombinedRuleNamespaces';
 
 export function useCloudCombinedRulesMatching(
   ruleName: string,
@@ -123,49 +74,6 @@ export function useCloudCombinedRulesMatching(
   return { loading: isLoadingDsFeatures || loading, error: error, rules: value };
 }
 
-function useCombinedRulesLoader(
-  rulesSourceName: string | undefined,
-  identifier?: RuleIdentifier
-): AsyncRequestState<void> {
-  const dispatch = useDispatch();
-  const promRuleRequests = useUnifiedAlertingSelector((state) => state.promRules);
-  const promRuleRequest = getRequestState(rulesSourceName, promRuleRequests);
-  const rulerRuleRequests = useUnifiedAlertingSelector((state) => state.rulerRules);
-  const rulerRuleRequest = getRequestState(rulesSourceName, rulerRuleRequests);
-
-  const { loading } = useAsync(async () => {
-    if (!rulesSourceName) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    await dispatch(fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName, identifier }));
-  }, [dispatch, rulesSourceName]);
-
-  return {
-    loading,
-    error:
-      (promRuleRequest.error ?? isRulerNotSupportedResponse(rulerRuleRequest)) ? undefined : rulerRuleRequest.error,
-    dispatched: promRuleRequest.dispatched && rulerRuleRequest.dispatched,
-  };
-}
-
-function getRequestState(
-  ruleSourceName: string | undefined,
-  slice: AsyncRequestMapSlice<RulerRulesConfigDTO | RuleNamespace[] | null>
-): AsyncRequestState<RulerRulesConfigDTO | RuleNamespace[] | null> {
-  if (!ruleSourceName) {
-    return initialAsyncRequestState;
-  }
-
-  const state = slice[ruleSourceName];
-
-  if (!state) {
-    return initialAsyncRequestState;
-  }
-
-  return state;
-}
-
 interface RequestState<T> {
   result?: T;
   loading: boolean;
@@ -396,29 +304,9 @@ export function useRuleWithLocation({
   };
 }
 
-export const grafanaRulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig = {
-  dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
-  apiVersion: 'legacy',
-};
-
-const grafanaDsFeatures = {
-  rulerConfig: grafanaRulerConfig,
-};
-
 export function useDataSourceFeatures(dataSourceName: string) {
-  const isGrafanaDs = isGrafanaRulesSource(dataSourceName);
-
   const { currentData: dsFeatures, isLoading: isLoadingDsFeatures } =
-    featureDiscoveryApi.endpoints.discoverDsFeatures.useQuery(
-      {
-        rulesSourceName: dataSourceName,
-      },
-      { skip: isGrafanaDs }
-    );
-
-  if (isGrafanaDs) {
-    return { isLoadingDsFeatures: false, dsFeatures: grafanaDsFeatures };
-  }
+    featureDiscoveryApi.endpoints.discoverDsFeatures.useQuery({ rulesSourceName: dataSourceName });
 
   return { isLoadingDsFeatures, dsFeatures };
 }
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRuleNamespaces.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRuleNamespaces.ts
index 7085c0ee0b9..4ec95bf413d 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRuleNamespaces.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/hooks/useCombinedRuleNamespaces.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
 } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { alertRuleApi } from '../api/alertRuleApi';
+import { GRAFANA_RULER_CONFIG } from '../api/featureDiscoveryApi';
 import { RULE_LIST_POLL_INTERVAL_MS } from '../utils/constants';
 import {
   getAllRulesSources,
@@ -38,7 +39,6 @@ import {
   isRecordingRulerRule,
 } from '../utils/rules';
 
-import { grafanaRulerConfig } from './useCombinedRule';
 import { useUnifiedAlertingSelector } from './useUnifiedAlertingSelector';
 
 export interface CacheValue {
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ export function useCombinedRules(
     error: rulerRulesError,
   } = alertRuleApi.endpoints.rulerRules.useQuery(
     {
-      rulerConfig: grafanaRulerConfig,
+      rulerConfig: GRAFANA_RULER_CONFIG,
       filter: { dashboardUID: dashboardUID ?? undefined, panelId },
     },
     {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/mimirRulerApi.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/mimirRulerApi.ts
index 95ad6d78b2a..c254f8f62c7 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/mimirRulerApi.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/mimirRulerApi.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export const group2: RulerRuleGroupDTO = {
 export const group3: RulerRuleGroupDTO = {
   name: GROUP_3,
   interval: '1m',
-  rules: [mockRulerAlertingRule()],
+  rules: [mockRulerAlertingRule({ alert: 'rule 3' }), mockRulerAlertingRule({ alert: 'rule 4' })],
 };
 
 export const group4: RulerRuleGroupDTO = {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/events.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/events.ts
index 6cc27da9d8e..a3729a14c61 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/events.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/events.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import { JsonValue } from 'type-fest';
 
 import server from 'app/features/alerting/unified/mockApi';
 
+type PredicateFn = (request: Request) => boolean;
+
 /**
  * Wait for the mock server to receive a request for the given method + url combination,
  * and resolve with information about the request that was made
@@ -40,11 +42,14 @@ interface SerializedRequest {
  *
  * @deprecated Try not to use this 🙏 instead aim to assert against UI side effects
  */
-export async function captureRequests(): Promise<Request[]> {
+
+export async function captureRequests(predicateFn: PredicateFn = () => true): Promise<Request[]> {
   const requests: Request[] = [];
 
   server.events.on('request:start', ({ request }) => {
-    requests.push(request);
+    if (predicateFn(request)) {
+      requests.push(request);
+    }
   });
 
   return requests;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/grafanaRuler.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/grafanaRuler.ts
index a472ec19393..001e11290ee 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/grafanaRuler.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/grafanaRuler.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { delay, http, HttpResponse } from 'msw';
 export const MOCK_GRAFANA_ALERT_RULE_TITLE = 'Test alert';
 
 import {
+  PromRulesResponse,
   RulerGrafanaRuleDTO,
   RulerRuleGroupDTO,
   RulerRulesConfigDTO,
@@ -28,6 +29,12 @@ export const rulerRulesHandler = () => {
   });
 };
 
+export const prometheusRulesHandler = () => {
+  return http.get('/api/prometheus/grafana/api/v1/rules', () => {
+    return HttpResponse.json<PromRulesResponse>({ status: 'success', data: { groups: [] } });
+  });
+};
+
 export const getRulerRuleNamespaceHandler = () =>
   http.get<{ folderUid: string }>(`/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/:folderUid`, ({ params: { folderUid } }) => {
     // This mimic API response as closely as possible - Invalid folderUid returns 403
@@ -92,10 +99,14 @@ export const rulerRuleGroupHandler = (options?: HandlerOptions) => {
   );
 };
 
-export const deleteRulerRuleGroupHandler = () =>
+export const deleteRulerRuleGroupHandler = (options?: HandlerOptions) =>
   http.delete<{ folderUid: string; groupName: string }>(
     `/api/ruler/grafana/api/v1/rules/:folderUid/:groupName`,
     ({ params: { folderUid } }) => {
+      if (options?.response) {
+        return options.response;
+      }
+
       const namespace = namespaces[folderUid];
       if (!namespace) {
         return new HttpResponse(null, { status: 403 });
@@ -132,6 +143,7 @@ export const historyHandler = () => {
 
 const handlers = [
   rulerRulesHandler(),
+  prometheusRulesHandler(),
   getRulerRuleNamespaceHandler(),
   rulerRuleGroupHandler(),
   rulerRuleHandler(),
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/mimirRuler.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/mimirRuler.ts
index b479cfa8316..076fdbdcbe3 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/mimirRuler.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/mocks/server/handlers/mimirRuler.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,25 @@
 import { delay, http, HttpResponse } from 'msw';
 
-import { RulerRuleGroupDTO } from '../../../../../../types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import {
+  PromRulesResponse,
+  RulerRuleGroupDTO,
+  RulerRulesConfigDTO,
+} from '../../../../../../types/unified-alerting-dto';
 import { namespaces } from '../../mimirRulerApi';
 import { HandlerOptions } from '../configure';
 
+export const getRulerRulesHandler = () => {
+  return http.get(`/api/ruler/:dataSourceUID/api/v1/rules`, async () => {
+    return HttpResponse.json<RulerRulesConfigDTO>(namespaces);
+  });
+};
+
+export const prometheusRulesHandler = () => {
+  return http.get('/api/prometheus/:dataSourceUID/api/v1/rules', () => {
+    return HttpResponse.json<PromRulesResponse>({ status: 'success', data: { groups: [] } });
+  });
+};
+
 export const updateRulerRuleNamespaceHandler = (options?: HandlerOptions) => {
   return http.post<{ namespaceName: string }>(`/api/ruler/:dataSourceUID/api/v1/rules/:namespaceName`, async () => {
     if (options?.delay !== undefined) {
@@ -65,6 +81,12 @@ export const deleteRulerRuleGroupHandler = () => {
   );
 };
 
-const handlers = [updateRulerRuleNamespaceHandler(), rulerRuleGroupHandler(), deleteRulerRuleGroupHandler()];
+const handlers = [
+  getRulerRulesHandler(),
+  prometheusRulesHandler(),
+  updateRulerRuleNamespaceHandler(),
+  rulerRuleGroupHandler(),
+  deleteRulerRuleGroupHandler(),
+];
 
 export default handlers;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.test.ts
index 5bfefa2e7ba..09719ab49b3 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,26 @@
+import { createAction } from '@reduxjs/toolkit';
+import { omit } from 'lodash';
+
+import { GrafanaRuleIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 import { PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
-import { mockRulerAlertingRule, mockRulerGrafanaRule, mockRulerRecordingRule } from '../../mocks';
+import { mockGrafanaRulerRule, mockRulerAlertingRule, mockRulerGrafanaRule, mockRulerRecordingRule } from '../../mocks';
+import { fromRulerRule } from '../../utils/rule-id';
 
-import { deleteRuleAction, pauseRuleAction, ruleGroupReducer } from './ruleGroups';
+import {
+  addRuleAction,
+  deleteRuleAction,
+  moveRuleGroupAction,
+  pauseRuleAction,
+  renameRuleGroupAction,
+  reorder,
+  reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction,
+  ruleGroupReducer,
+  swapItems,
+  SwapOperation,
+  updateRuleAction,
+  updateRuleGroupAction,
+} from './ruleGroups';
 
 describe('pausing rules', () => {
   // pausing only works for Grafana managed rules
@@ -55,8 +73,9 @@ describe('removing a rule', () => {
       interval: '5m',
       rules: [mockRulerGrafanaRule({}, { uid: '1' }), ruleToDelete, mockRulerGrafanaRule({}, { uid: '3' })],
     };
+    const ruleIdentifier = fromRulerRule('my-datasource', 'my-namespace', 'group-1', ruleToDelete);
 
-    const action = deleteRuleAction({ rule: ruleToDelete });
+    const action = deleteRuleAction({ identifier: ruleIdentifier });
     const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, action);
 
     expect(output).toHaveProperty('rules');
@@ -83,8 +102,9 @@ describe('removing a rule', () => {
         }),
       ],
     };
+    const ruleIdentifier = fromRulerRule('my-datasource', 'my-namespace', 'group-1', ruleToDelete);
 
-    const action = deleteRuleAction({ rule: ruleToDelete });
+    const action = deleteRuleAction({ identifier: ruleIdentifier });
     const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, action);
 
     expect(output).toHaveProperty('rules');
@@ -96,3 +116,208 @@ describe('removing a rule', () => {
     expect(output).toMatchSnapshot();
   });
 });
+
+describe('add rule', () => {
+  it('should add a single rule to a rule group', () => {
+    const ruleToAdd = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ uid: '3' });
+
+    const rule1 = mockRulerGrafanaRule({}, { uid: '1' });
+    const rule2 = mockRulerGrafanaRule({}, { uid: '2' });
+
+    const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+      name: 'group-1',
+      interval: '5m',
+      rules: [rule1, rule2],
+    };
+
+    const action = addRuleAction({ rule: ruleToAdd });
+    const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, action);
+
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('name', 'group-1');
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('interval', '5m');
+
+    expect(output.rules).toHaveLength(3);
+    expect(output.rules[0]).toBe(rule1);
+    expect(output.rules[1]).toBe(rule2);
+    expect(output.rules[2]).toBe(ruleToAdd);
+  });
+
+  it('should allow adding the rule to a new group with custom name and interval', () => {
+    const ruleToAdd = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ uid: '1' });
+
+    const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+      name: 'default',
+      interval: '1m',
+      rules: [],
+    };
+
+    const action = addRuleAction({ rule: ruleToAdd, groupName: 'new group', interval: '10m' });
+    const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, action);
+
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('name', 'new group');
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('interval', '10m');
+
+    expect(output.rules).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(output.rules[0]).toBe(ruleToAdd);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('update rule', () => {
+  it('should update a single rule in a rule group', () => {
+    const ruleToUpdate = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ uid: '1' });
+    const ruleIdentifier = fromRulerRule('datasource', 'namespace', 'group', ruleToUpdate);
+    const updatedRule: typeof ruleToUpdate = { ...ruleToUpdate, labels: { foo: 'bar' } };
+
+    const otherRule = mockRulerGrafanaRule({}, { uid: '2' });
+
+    const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+      name: 'group-1',
+      interval: '5m',
+      rules: [ruleToUpdate, otherRule],
+    };
+
+    const action = updateRuleAction({ identifier: ruleIdentifier, rule: updatedRule });
+    const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, action);
+
+    expect(output.rules).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(output.rules[0]).toStrictEqual(updatedRule);
+    expect(output.rules[1]).toBe(otherRule);
+  });
+
+  it('should throw when rule is not found', () => {
+    const rule = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ uid: '1' });
+    const ruleIdentifier: GrafanaRuleIdentifier = {
+      uid: 'wrong one',
+      ruleSourceName: 'grafana',
+    };
+
+    const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+      name: 'group-1',
+      interval: '5m',
+      rules: [rule],
+    };
+
+    const action = updateRuleAction({ identifier: ruleIdentifier, rule });
+    expect(() => {
+      ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, action);
+    }).toThrow('no rule matching identifier found');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('re-order rules', () => {
+  const r1 = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ uid: 'r1' });
+  const r2 = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ uid: 'r2' });
+  const r3 = mockGrafanaRulerRule({ uid: 'r3' });
+
+  const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+    name: 'group-1',
+    interval: '5m',
+    rules: [r1, r2, r3],
+  };
+
+  const swaps: SwapOperation[] = [
+    [0, 1],
+    [2, 1],
+  ];
+  const action = reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction({ swaps });
+  const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, action);
+
+  expect(output.rules).toHaveLength(3);
+});
+
+describe('rename rule group', () => {
+  const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+    name: 'group-1',
+    interval: '5m',
+    rules: [],
+  };
+
+  it('should allow updating the group name and interval', () => {
+    const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, renameRuleGroupAction({ groupName: 'group-2', interval: '999m' }));
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('name', 'group-2');
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('interval', '999m');
+
+    expect(omit(output, ['name', 'interval'])).toEqual(omit(initialGroup, ['name', 'interval']));
+  });
+});
+
+describe('move rule group', () => {
+  const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+    name: 'group-1',
+    interval: '5m',
+    rules: [],
+  };
+
+  it('should allow updating the group name and interval', () => {
+    const output = ruleGroupReducer(
+      initialGroup,
+      moveRuleGroupAction({ newNamespaceName: 'doesnt-really-matter', groupName: 'group-2', interval: '999m' })
+    );
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('name', 'group-2');
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('interval', '999m');
+
+    expect(omit(output, ['name', 'interval'])).toEqual(omit(initialGroup, ['name', 'interval']));
+  });
+});
+
+describe('update rule group', () => {
+  const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+    name: 'group-1',
+    interval: '5m',
+    rules: [],
+  };
+
+  it('should allow updating the interval', () => {
+    const output = ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, updateRuleGroupAction({ interval: '999m' }));
+    expect(output).toHaveProperty('interval', '999m');
+
+    expect(omit(output, 'interval')).toEqual(omit(initialGroup, 'interval'));
+  });
+});
+
+describe('unknown actions', () => {
+  it('should throw for unknown actions', () => {
+    expect(() => {
+      const initialGroup: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
+        name: 'group-1',
+        interval: '5m',
+        rules: [],
+      };
+
+      const unknownAction = createAction('unkown');
+
+      // @ts-expect-error
+      ruleGroupReducer(initialGroup, unknownAction);
+    }).toThrow('Unknown action');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('reorder and swap', () => {
+  it('should reorder arrays', () => {
+    const original = [1, 2, 3];
+    const operations = [
+      [1, 2],
+      [0, 2],
+    ] satisfies SwapOperation[];
+    const expected = [3, 2, 1];
+
+    expect(reorder(original, operations)).toEqual(expected);
+    expect(original).toEqual(expected); // make sure it mutates so we can use it in produce functions
+  });
+
+  it('inverse swaps should cancel out', () => {
+    const original = [1, 2, 3];
+    const operations = [
+      [1, 2],
+      [2, 1],
+    ] satisfies SwapOperation[];
+
+    expect(reorder(original, operations)).toEqual(original);
+  });
+
+  it('should throw when swapping out of bounds', () => {
+    expect(() => {
+      swapItems([], [-1, 3]);
+    }).toThrow('out of bounds');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.ts
index efe5182be75..41d7c42c889 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/reducers/ruler/ruleGroups.ts
@@ -1,27 +1,35 @@
 import { createAction, createReducer, isAnyOf } from '@reduxjs/toolkit';
-import { remove } from 'lodash';
+import { inRange } from 'lodash';
 
-import { RuleIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
-import { PostableRuleDTO, PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO, RulerRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import { EditableRuleIdentifier, GrafanaRuleIdentifier, RuleIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PostableRuleDTO, PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
+import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from '../../utils/datasource';
 import { hashRulerRule } from '../../utils/rule-id';
-import { isCloudRulerRule, isGrafanaRulerRule } from '../../utils/rules';
+import {
+  isCloudRuleIdentifier,
+  isCloudRulerRule,
+  isGrafanaRuleIdentifier,
+  isGrafanaRulerRule,
+} from '../../utils/rules';
 
 // rule-scoped actions
-export const addRuleAction = createAction<{ rule: PostableRuleDTO }>('ruleGroup/rules/add');
-export const updateRuleAction = createAction<{ identifier: RuleIdentifier; rule: PostableRuleDTO }>(
+export const addRuleAction = createAction<{ rule: PostableRuleDTO; groupName?: string; interval?: string }>(
+  'ruleGroup/rules/add'
+);
+export const updateRuleAction = createAction<{ identifier: EditableRuleIdentifier; rule: PostableRuleDTO }>(
   'ruleGroup/rules/update'
 );
 export const pauseRuleAction = createAction<{ uid: string; pause: boolean }>('ruleGroup/rules/pause');
-export const deleteRuleAction = createAction<{ rule: RulerRuleDTO }>('ruleGroup/rules/delete');
+export const deleteRuleAction = createAction<{ identifier: EditableRuleIdentifier }>('ruleGroup/rules/delete');
 
 // group-scoped actions
 export const updateRuleGroupAction = createAction<{ interval?: string }>('ruleGroup/update');
-export const moveRuleGroupAction = createAction<{ namespaceName: string; groupName?: string; interval?: string }>(
+export const moveRuleGroupAction = createAction<{ newNamespaceName: string; groupName?: string; interval?: string }>(
   'ruleGroup/move'
 );
 export const renameRuleGroupAction = createAction<{ groupName: string; interval?: string }>('ruleGroup/rename');
-export const reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction = createAction('ruleGroup/rules/reorder');
+export const reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction = createAction<{ swaps: SwapOperation[] }>('ruleGroup/rules/reorder');
 
 const initialState: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
   name: 'initial',
@@ -30,62 +38,114 @@ const initialState: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
 
 export const ruleGroupReducer = createReducer(initialState, (builder) => {
   builder
-    .addCase(addRuleAction, () => {
-      throw new Error('not yet implemented');
+    .addCase(addRuleAction, (draft, { payload }) => {
+      const { rule } = payload;
+      draft.rules.push(rule);
     })
-    .addCase(updateRuleAction, () => {
-      throw new Error('not yet implemented');
+    .addCase(updateRuleAction, (draft, { payload }) => {
+      const { identifier, rule } = payload;
+
+      const index = findRuleIndex(draft.rules, identifier);
+      draft.rules[index] = rule;
     })
     .addCase(deleteRuleAction, (draft, { payload }) => {
-      const { rule } = payload;
+      const { identifier } = payload;
 
-      // deleting a Grafana managed rule is by using the UID
-      if (isGrafanaRulerRule(rule)) {
-        const ruleUID = rule.grafana_alert.uid;
-        remove(draft.rules, (rule) => isGrafanaRulerRule(rule) && rule.grafana_alert.uid === ruleUID);
-      }
-
-      // deleting a Data-source managed rule is by computing the rule hash
-      if (isCloudRulerRule(rule)) {
-        const ruleHash = hashRulerRule(rule);
-        remove(draft.rules, (rule) => isCloudRulerRule(rule) && hashRulerRule(rule) === ruleHash);
-      }
+      const index = findRuleIndex(draft.rules, identifier);
+      draft.rules.splice(index, 1);
     })
     .addCase(pauseRuleAction, (draft, { payload }) => {
       const { uid, pause } = payload;
 
-      let match = false;
+      const identifier: GrafanaRuleIdentifier = { ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, uid };
+      const index = findRuleIndex(draft.rules, identifier);
+      const matchingRule = draft.rules[index];
 
-      for (const rule of draft.rules) {
-        if (isGrafanaRulerRule(rule) && rule.grafana_alert.uid === uid) {
-          match = true;
-          rule.grafana_alert.is_paused = pause;
-          break;
-        }
-      }
-
-      if (!match) {
-        throw new Error(`No rule with UID ${uid} found in group ${draft.name}`);
+      if (isGrafanaRulerRule(matchingRule)) {
+        matchingRule.grafana_alert.is_paused = pause;
+      } else {
+        throw new Error('Matching rule is not a Grafana-managed rule');
       }
     })
-    .addCase(reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction, () => {
-      throw new Error('not yet implemented');
+    .addCase(reorderRulesInRuleGroupAction, (draft, { payload }) => {
+      const { swaps } = payload;
+      reorder(draft.rules, swaps);
     })
     // rename and move should allow updating the group's name
-    .addMatcher(isAnyOf(renameRuleGroupAction, moveRuleGroupAction), (draft, { payload }) => {
+    .addMatcher(isAnyOf(renameRuleGroupAction, moveRuleGroupAction, addRuleAction), (draft, { payload }) => {
       const { groupName } = payload;
-      if (groupName) {
-        draft.name = groupName;
-      }
+      draft.name = groupName ?? draft.name;
     })
     // update, rename and move should all allow updating the interval of the group
-    .addMatcher(isAnyOf(updateRuleGroupAction, renameRuleGroupAction, moveRuleGroupAction), (draft, { payload }) => {
-      const { interval } = payload;
-      if (interval) {
-        draft.interval = interval;
+    .addMatcher(
+      isAnyOf(updateRuleGroupAction, renameRuleGroupAction, moveRuleGroupAction, addRuleAction),
+      (draft, { payload }) => {
+        const { interval } = payload;
+        draft.interval = interval ?? draft.interval;
       }
-    })
+    )
     .addDefaultCase((_draft, action) => {
       throw new Error(`Unknown action for rule group reducer: ${action.type}`);
     });
 });
+
+/**
+ * Utility function for finding rules matching a identifier, pass this into .find, .findIndex, .remove
+ * or any other function with matching predicate.
+ */
+const ruleFinder = (identifier: RuleIdentifier) => {
+  const grafanaManagedIdentifier = isGrafanaRuleIdentifier(identifier);
+  const dataSourceManagedIdentifier = isCloudRuleIdentifier(identifier);
+
+  return (rule: PostableRuleDTO) => {
+    const isGrafanaManagedRule = isGrafanaRulerRule(rule);
+    const isDataSourceManagedRule = isCloudRulerRule(rule);
+
+    if (grafanaManagedIdentifier && isGrafanaManagedRule) {
+      return rule.grafana_alert.uid === identifier.uid;
+    }
+
+    if (isDataSourceManagedRule && dataSourceManagedIdentifier) {
+      return hashRulerRule(rule) === identifier.rulerRuleHash;
+    }
+
+    return;
+  };
+};
+
+// [oldIndex, newIndex]
+export type SwapOperation = [number, number];
+
+/**
+ * ⚠️ This function mutates the input array
+ * reorder several items in a list, given a set of swap
+ */
+export function reorder<T>(items: T[], swaps: Array<[number, number]>) {
+  for (const swap of swaps) {
+    swapItems(items, swap);
+  }
+  return items;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ⚠️ This function mutates the input array
+ * swaps two items in an array of items
+ */
+export function swapItems<T>(items: T[], [oldIndex, newIndex]: SwapOperation): void {
+  const inBounds = inRange(oldIndex, items.length) && inRange(newIndex, items.length);
+  if (!inBounds) {
+    throw new Error('Invalid operation: index out of bounds');
+  }
+
+  const [movedItem] = items.splice(oldIndex, 1);
+  items.splice(newIndex, 0, movedItem);
+}
+
+function findRuleIndex(rules: PostableRuleDTO[], identifier: EditableRuleIdentifier) {
+  const index = rules.findIndex(ruleFinder(identifier));
+  if (index === -1) {
+    throw new Error('no rule matching identifier found');
+  }
+
+  return index;
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/actions.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/actions.ts
index 8f9b4b9fcb0..276c43a0bcc 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/actions.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/actions.ts
@@ -12,34 +12,16 @@ import {
 } from 'app/plugins/datasource/alertmanager/types';
 import { FolderDTO, StoreState, ThunkResult } from 'app/types';
 import {
-  CombinedRuleGroup,
-  CombinedRuleNamespace,
   PromBasedDataSource,
   RuleIdentifier,
   RuleNamespace,
-  RuleWithLocation,
   RulerDataSourceConfig,
   StateHistoryItem,
 } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
-import {
-  PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO,
-  PromApplication,
-  RulerRuleDTO,
-  RulerRulesConfigDTO,
-} from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import { PromApplication, RulerRuleDTO, RulerRulesConfigDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { backendSrv } from '../../../../core/services/backend_srv';
-import {
-  LogMessages,
-  logError,
-  logInfo,
-  trackSwitchToPoliciesRouting,
-  trackSwitchToSimplifiedRouting,
-  withPerformanceLogging,
-  withPromRulesMetadataLogging,
-  withRulerRulesMetadataLogging,
-} from '../Analytics';
-import { alertRuleApi } from '../api/alertRuleApi';
+import { withPerformanceLogging, withPromRulesMetadataLogging, withRulerRulesMetadataLogging } from '../Analytics';
 import {
   deleteAlertManagerConfig,
   fetchAlertGroups,
@@ -50,26 +32,12 @@ import { alertmanagerApi } from '../api/alertmanagerApi';
 import { fetchAnnotations } from '../api/annotations';
 import { discoverFeatures } from '../api/buildInfo';
 import { FetchPromRulesFilter, fetchRules } from '../api/prometheus';
-import { FetchRulerRulesFilter, deleteRulerRulesGroup, fetchRulerRules, setRulerRuleGroup } from '../api/ruler';
-import { RuleFormValues } from '../types/rule-form';
+import { FetchRulerRulesFilter, fetchRulerRules } from '../api/ruler';
 import { addDefaultsToAlertmanagerConfig } from '../utils/alertmanager';
-import {
-  GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
-  getAllRulesSourceNames,
-  getRulesDataSource,
-  getRulesSourceName,
-} from '../utils/datasource';
+import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, getAllRulesSourceNames, getRulesDataSource } from '../utils/datasource';
 import { makeAMLink } from '../utils/misc';
 import { AsyncRequestMapSlice, withAppEvents, withSerializedError } from '../utils/redux';
-import * as ruleId from '../utils/rule-id';
-import { getRulerClient } from '../utils/rulerClient';
-import {
-  getAlertInfo,
-  isDataSourceManagedRuleByType,
-  isGrafanaManagedRuleByType,
-  isGrafanaRulerRule,
-  isRulerNotSupportedResponse,
-} from '../utils/rules';
+import { getAlertInfo, isRulerNotSupportedResponse } from '../utils/rules';
 import { safeParsePrometheusDuration } from '../utils/time';
 
 function getDataSourceConfig(getState: () => unknown, rulesSourceName: string) {
@@ -323,119 +291,6 @@ export function fetchAllPromRulesAction(force = false): ThunkResult<void> {
   };
 }
 
-export function deleteRulesGroupAction(
-  namespace: CombinedRuleNamespace,
-  ruleGroup: CombinedRuleGroup
-): ThunkResult<void> {
-  return async (dispatch, getState) => {
-    withAppEvents(
-      (async () => {
-        const sourceName = getRulesSourceName(namespace.rulesSource);
-        const rulerConfig = getDataSourceRulerConfig(getState, sourceName);
-
-        await deleteRulerRulesGroup(rulerConfig, namespace.name, ruleGroup.name);
-        await dispatch(fetchPromAndRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName: sourceName }));
-      })(),
-      { successMessage: 'Group deleted' }
-    );
-  };
-}
-
-export const saveRuleFormAction = createAsyncThunk(
-  'unifiedalerting/saveRuleForm',
-  (
-    {
-      values,
-      existing,
-      redirectOnSave,
-      evaluateEvery,
-    }: {
-      values: RuleFormValues;
-      existing?: RuleWithLocation;
-      redirectOnSave?: string;
-      initialAlertRuleName?: string;
-      evaluateEvery: string;
-    },
-    thunkAPI
-  ): Promise<void> =>
-    withAppEvents(
-      withSerializedError(
-        (async () => {
-          const { type } = values;
-          if (!type) {
-            return;
-          }
-
-          // TODO getRulerConfig should be smart enough to provide proper rulerClient implementation
-          // For the dataSourceName specified
-          // in case of system (cortex/loki)
-          let identifier: RuleIdentifier;
-
-          if (isDataSourceManagedRuleByType(type)) {
-            if (!values.dataSourceName) {
-              throw new Error('The Data source has not been defined.');
-            }
-
-            const rulerConfig = getDataSourceRulerConfig(thunkAPI.getState, values.dataSourceName);
-            const rulerClient = getRulerClient(rulerConfig);
-            identifier = await rulerClient.saveLotexRule(values, evaluateEvery, existing);
-            await thunkAPI.dispatch(fetchRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName: values.dataSourceName }));
-            // in case of grafana managed rules or grafana-managed recording rules
-          } else if (isGrafanaManagedRuleByType(type)) {
-            const rulerConfig = getDataSourceRulerConfig(thunkAPI.getState, GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME);
-            const rulerClient = getRulerClient(rulerConfig);
-            identifier = await rulerClient.saveGrafanaRule(values, evaluateEvery, existing);
-            reportSwitchingRoutingType(values, existing);
-            // when using a Granfa-managed alert rule we can invalidate a single rule
-            thunkAPI.dispatch(alertRuleApi.util.invalidateTags([{ type: 'GrafanaRulerRule', id: identifier.uid }]));
-          } else {
-            throw new Error('Unexpected rule form type');
-          }
-
-          logInfo(LogMessages.successSavingAlertRule, { type, isNew: (!existing).toString() });
-
-          if (redirectOnSave) {
-            locationService.push(redirectOnSave);
-          } else {
-            // if the identifier comes up empty (this happens when Grafana managed rule moves to another namespace or group)
-            const stringifiedIdentifier = ruleId.stringifyIdentifier(identifier);
-            if (!stringifiedIdentifier) {
-              locationService.push('/alerting/list');
-              return;
-            }
-            // redirect to edit page
-            const newLocation = `/alerting/${encodeURIComponent(stringifiedIdentifier)}/edit`;
-            if (locationService.getLocation().pathname !== newLocation) {
-              locationService.replace(newLocation);
-            }
-          }
-        })()
-      ),
-      {
-        successMessage: existing ? `Rule "${values.name}" updated.` : `Rule "${values.name}" saved.`,
-        errorMessage: 'Failed to save rule',
-      }
-    )
-);
-
-function reportSwitchingRoutingType(values: RuleFormValues, existingRule: RuleWithLocation<RulerRuleDTO> | undefined) {
-  // track if the user switched from simplified routing to policies routing or vice versa
-  if (isGrafanaRulerRule(existingRule?.rule)) {
-    const ga = existingRule?.rule.grafana_alert;
-    const existingWasUsingSimplifiedRouting = Boolean(ga?.notification_settings?.receiver);
-    const newValuesUsesSimplifiedRouting = values.manualRouting;
-    const shouldTrackSwitchToSimplifiedRouting = !existingWasUsingSimplifiedRouting && newValuesUsesSimplifiedRouting;
-    const shouldTrackSwitchToPoliciesRouting = existingWasUsingSimplifiedRouting && !newValuesUsesSimplifiedRouting;
-
-    if (shouldTrackSwitchToSimplifiedRouting) {
-      trackSwitchToSimplifiedRouting();
-    }
-    if (shouldTrackSwitchToPoliciesRouting) {
-      trackSwitchToPoliciesRouting();
-    }
-  }
-}
-
 export const fetchGrafanaAnnotationsAction = createAsyncThunk(
   'unifiedalerting/fetchGrafanaAnnotations',
   (alertId: string): Promise<StateHistoryItem[]> => withSerializedError(fetchAnnotations(alertId))
@@ -582,56 +437,3 @@ export const rulesInSameGroupHaveInvalidFor = (rules: RulerRuleDTO[], everyDurat
     return forNumber ? forNumber !== 0 && forNumber < everyNumber : false;
   });
 };
-
-interface UpdateRulesOrderOptions {
-  rulesSourceName: string;
-  namespaceName: string;
-  groupName: string;
-  newRules: RulerRuleDTO[];
-  folderUid: string;
-}
-
-export const updateRulesOrder = createAsyncThunk(
-  'unifiedalerting/updateRulesOrderForGroup',
-  async (options: UpdateRulesOrderOptions, thunkAPI): Promise<void> => {
-    return withAppEvents(
-      withSerializedError(
-        (async () => {
-          const { rulesSourceName, namespaceName, groupName, newRules, folderUid } = options;
-
-          const rulerConfig = getDataSourceRulerConfig(thunkAPI.getState, rulesSourceName);
-          const rulesResult = await fetchRulerRules(rulerConfig);
-
-          const existingGroup = rulesResult[namespaceName].find((group) => group.name === groupName);
-          if (!existingGroup) {
-            throw new Error(`Group "${groupName}" not found.`);
-          }
-
-          // We're unlikely to have this happen, as any user of this action should have already ensured
-          // that the entire group was fetched before sending a new order.
-          // But as a final safeguard we should fail if we somehow ended up here with a mismatched rules count
-          // This would indicate an accidental deletion of rules following a frontend bug
-          if (existingGroup.rules.length !== newRules.length) {
-            const err = new Error('Rules count mismatch. Please refresh the page and try again.');
-            logError(err, { namespaceName, groupName });
-            throw err;
-          }
-
-          const payload: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
-            name: existingGroup.name,
-            interval: existingGroup.interval,
-            rules: newRules,
-          };
-
-          await setRulerRuleGroup(rulerConfig, folderUid ?? namespaceName, payload);
-
-          await thunkAPI.dispatch(fetchRulerRulesAction({ rulesSourceName }));
-        })()
-      ),
-      {
-        errorMessage: 'Failed to update namespace / group',
-        successMessage: 'Update successful',
-      }
-    );
-  }
-);
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/reducers.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/reducers.ts
index 02217feac8e..d12154135d1 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/reducers.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/state/reducers.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import {
   fetchPromRulesAction,
   fetchRulerRulesAction,
   fetchRulesSourceBuildInfoAction,
-  saveRuleFormAction,
   testReceiversAction,
   updateAlertManagerConfigAction,
 } from './actions';
@@ -24,9 +23,6 @@ export const reducer = combineReducers({
   promRules: createAsyncMapSlice('promRules', fetchPromRulesAction, ({ rulesSourceName }) => rulesSourceName).reducer,
   rulerRules: createAsyncMapSlice('rulerRules', fetchRulerRulesAction, ({ rulesSourceName }) => rulesSourceName)
     .reducer,
-  ruleForm: combineReducers({
-    saveRule: createAsyncSlice('saveRule', saveRuleFormAction).reducer,
-  }),
   saveAMConfig: createAsyncSlice('saveAMConfig', updateAlertManagerConfigAction).reducer,
   deleteAMConfig: createAsyncSlice('deleteAMConfig', deleteAlertManagerConfigAction).reducer,
   folders: createAsyncMapSlice('folders', fetchFolderAction, (uid) => uid).reducer,
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/__snapshots__/rule-form.test.ts.snap b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/__snapshots__/rule-form.test.ts.snap
index 746e34f15e6..70899d7e938 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/__snapshots__/rule-form.test.ts.snap
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/__snapshots__/rule-form.test.ts.snap
@@ -2,11 +2,7 @@
 
 exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should correctly convert rule form values for grafana alerting rule 1`] = `
 {
-  "annotations": {
-    "description": "",
-    "runbook_url": "",
-    "summary": "",
-  },
+  "annotations": {},
   "for": "1m",
   "grafana_alert": {
     "condition": "A",
@@ -17,19 +13,13 @@ exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should correctly convert rule form valu
     "notification_settings": undefined,
     "title": "",
   },
-  "labels": {
-    "": "",
-  },
+  "labels": {},
 }
 `;
 
 exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should correctly convert rule form values for grafana recording rule 1`] = `
 {
-  "annotations": {
-    "description": "",
-    "runbook_url": "",
-    "summary": "",
-  },
+  "annotations": {},
   "grafana_alert": {
     "condition": "A",
     "data": [],
@@ -40,19 +30,13 @@ exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should correctly convert rule form valu
     },
     "title": "",
   },
-  "labels": {
-    "": "",
-  },
+  "labels": {},
 }
 `;
 
 exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should not save both instant and range type queries 1`] = `
 {
-  "annotations": {
-    "description": "",
-    "runbook_url": "",
-    "summary": "",
-  },
+  "annotations": {},
   "for": "1m",
   "grafana_alert": {
     "condition": "A",
@@ -79,26 +63,18 @@ exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should not save both instant and range
     "notification_settings": undefined,
     "title": "",
   },
-  "labels": {
-    "": "",
-  },
+  "labels": {},
 }
 `;
 
 exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should not set keep_firing_for if values are undefined 1`] = `
 {
   "alert": "",
-  "annotations": {
-    "description": "",
-    "runbook_url": "",
-    "summary": "",
-  },
+  "annotations": {},
   "expr": "",
   "for": "1m",
   "keep_firing_for": undefined,
-  "labels": {
-    "": "",
-  },
+  "labels": {},
 }
 `;
 
@@ -123,17 +99,11 @@ exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should parse keep_firing_for 1`] = `
 exports[`formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO should set keep_firing_for if values are populated 1`] = `
 {
   "alert": "",
-  "annotations": {
-    "description": "",
-    "runbook_url": "",
-    "summary": "",
-  },
+  "annotations": {},
   "expr": "",
   "for": "1m",
   "keep_firing_for": "1m",
-  "labels": {
-    "": "",
-  },
+  "labels": {},
 }
 `;
 
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.test.ts
index 0b7bfa3d09d..bfc7f86ea5c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from './datasource';
 import {
   MANUAL_ROUTING_KEY,
   alertingRulerRuleToRuleForm,
+  cleanAnnotations,
+  cleanLabels,
   formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO,
   formValuesToRulerRuleDTO,
   getContactPointsFromDTO,
@@ -254,3 +256,32 @@ describe('getDefautManualRouting', () => {
     expect(getDefautManualRouting()).toBe(true);
   });
 });
+
+describe('cleanAnnotations', () => {
+  it('should remove falsy KVs', () => {
+    const output = cleanAnnotations([{ key: '', value: '' }]);
+    expect(output).toStrictEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('should trim keys and values', () => {
+    const output = cleanAnnotations([{ key: ' spaces ', value: ' spaces too  ' }]);
+    expect(output).toStrictEqual([{ key: 'spaces', value: 'spaces too' }]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('cleanLabels', () => {
+  it('should remove falsy KVs', () => {
+    const output = cleanLabels([{ key: '', value: '' }]);
+    expect(output).toStrictEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('should trim keys and values', () => {
+    const output = cleanLabels([{ key: ' spaces ', value: ' spaces too  ' }]);
+    expect(output).toStrictEqual([{ key: 'spaces', value: 'spaces too' }]);
+  });
+
+  it('should leave empty values', () => {
+    const output = cleanLabels([{ key: 'key', value: '' }]);
+    expect(output).toStrictEqual([{ key: 'key', value: '' }]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.ts
index 960e24e07da..547e3031aea 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-form.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ import {
   RulerRuleDTO,
 } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
+type KVObject = { key: string; value: string };
+
 import { EvalFunction } from '../../state/alertDef';
 import { AlertManagerManualRouting, ContactPoint, RuleFormType, RuleFormValues } from '../types/rule-form';
 
@@ -51,6 +53,7 @@ import {
   isAlertingRulerRule,
   isGrafanaAlertingRuleByType,
   isGrafanaRecordingRule,
+  isGrafanaRecordingRuleByType,
   isGrafanaRulerRule,
   isRecordingRulerRule,
 } from './rules';
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ export const getDefaultFormValues = (): RuleFormValues => {
     uid: '',
     labels: [{ key: '', value: '' }],
     annotations: defaultAnnotations,
-    dataSourceName: null,
+    dataSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME, // let's use Grafana-managed alert rule by default
     type: canCreateGrafanaRules ? RuleFormType.grafana : canCreateCloudRules ? RuleFormType.cloudAlerting : undefined, // viewers can't create prom alerts
     group: '',
 
@@ -118,6 +121,10 @@ export const getDefautManualRouting = () => {
 
 export function formValuesToRulerRuleDTO(values: RuleFormValues): RulerRuleDTO {
   const { name, expression, forTime, forTimeUnit, keepFiringForTime, keepFiringForTimeUnit, type } = values;
+
+  const annotations = arrayToRecord(cleanAnnotations(values.annotations));
+  const labels = arrayToRecord(cleanLabels(values.labels));
+
   if (type === RuleFormType.cloudAlerting) {
     let keepFiringFor: string | undefined;
     if (keepFiringForTime && keepFiringForTimeUnit) {
@@ -128,24 +135,21 @@ export function formValuesToRulerRuleDTO(values: RuleFormValues): RulerRuleDTO {
       alert: name,
       for: `${forTime}${forTimeUnit}`,
       keep_firing_for: keepFiringFor,
-      annotations: arrayToRecord(values.annotations || []),
-      labels: arrayToRecord(values.labels || []),
+      annotations,
+      labels,
       expr: expression,
     };
   } else if (type === RuleFormType.cloudRecording) {
     return {
       record: name,
-      labels: arrayToRecord(values.labels || []),
+      labels,
       expr: expression,
     };
   }
   throw new Error(`unexpected rule type: ${type}`);
 }
 
-export function listifyLabelsOrAnnotations(
-  item: Labels | Annotations | undefined,
-  addEmpty: boolean
-): Array<{ key: string; value: string }> {
+export function listifyLabelsOrAnnotations(item: Labels | Annotations | undefined, addEmpty: boolean): KVObject[] {
   const list = [...recordToArray(item || {})];
   if (addEmpty) {
     list.push({ key: '', value: '' });
@@ -154,7 +158,7 @@ export function listifyLabelsOrAnnotations(
 }
 
 //make sure default annotations are always shown in order even if empty
-export function normalizeDefaultAnnotations(annotations: Array<{ key: string; value: string }>) {
+export function normalizeDefaultAnnotations(annotations: KVObject[]) {
   const orderedAnnotations = [...annotations];
   const defaultAnnotationKeys = defaultAnnotations.map((annotation) => annotation.key);
 
@@ -213,52 +217,70 @@ export function formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO(values: RuleFormValues): Postabl
     type,
     metric,
   } = values;
-  if (condition) {
-    const notificationSettings: GrafanaNotificationSettings | undefined = getNotificationSettingsForDTO(
-      manualRouting,
-      contactPoints
-    );
-    if (isGrafanaAlertingRuleByType(type)) {
-      return {
-        grafana_alert: {
-          title: name,
-          condition,
-          data: queries.map(fixBothInstantAndRangeQuery),
-          is_paused: Boolean(isPaused),
+  if (!condition) {
+    throw new Error('You cannot create an alert rule without specifying the alert condition');
+  }
 
-          // Alerting rule specific
-          no_data_state: noDataState,
-          exec_err_state: execErrState,
-          notification_settings: notificationSettings,
-        },
-        annotations: arrayToRecord(values.annotations || []),
-        labels: arrayToRecord(values.labels || []),
+  const notificationSettings = getNotificationSettingsForDTO(manualRouting, contactPoints);
+
+  const annotations = arrayToRecord(cleanAnnotations(values.annotations));
+  const labels = arrayToRecord(cleanLabels(values.labels));
+
+  const wantsAlertingRule = isGrafanaAlertingRuleByType(type);
+  const wantsRecordingRule = isGrafanaRecordingRuleByType(type!);
+
+  if (wantsAlertingRule) {
+    return {
+      grafana_alert: {
+        title: name,
+        condition,
+        data: queries.map(fixBothInstantAndRangeQuery),
+        is_paused: Boolean(isPaused),
 
         // Alerting rule specific
-        for: evaluateFor,
-      };
-    } else {
-      return {
-        grafana_alert: {
-          title: name,
-          condition,
-          data: queries.map(fixBothInstantAndRangeQuery),
-          is_paused: Boolean(isPaused),
+        no_data_state: noDataState,
+        exec_err_state: execErrState,
+        notification_settings: notificationSettings,
+      },
+      annotations,
+      labels,
 
-          // Recording rule specific
-          record: {
-            metric: metric ?? name,
-            from: condition,
-          },
+      // Alerting rule specific
+      for: evaluateFor,
+    };
+  } else if (wantsRecordingRule) {
+    return {
+      grafana_alert: {
+        title: name,
+        condition,
+        data: queries.map(fixBothInstantAndRangeQuery),
+        is_paused: Boolean(isPaused),
+
+        // Recording rule specific
+        record: {
+          metric: metric ?? name,
+          from: condition,
         },
-        annotations: arrayToRecord(values.annotations || []),
-        labels: arrayToRecord(values.labels || []),
-      };
-    }
+      },
+      annotations,
+      labels,
+    };
   }
-  throw new Error('Cannot create rule without specifying alert condition');
+
+  throw new Error(`Failed to convert form values to Grafana rule: unknown type ${type}`);
 }
 
+export const cleanAnnotations = (kvs: KVObject[]) =>
+  kvs.map(trimKeyAndValue).filter(({ key, value }: KVObject): Boolean => Boolean(key) && Boolean(value));
+
+export const cleanLabels = (kvs: KVObject[]) =>
+  kvs.map(trimKeyAndValue).filter(({ key }: KVObject): Boolean => Boolean(key));
+
+const trimKeyAndValue = ({ key, value }: KVObject): KVObject => ({
+  key: key.trim(),
+  value: value.trim(),
+});
+
 export function getContactPointsFromDTO(ga: GrafanaRuleDefinition): AlertManagerManualRouting | undefined {
   const contactPoint: ContactPoint | undefined = ga.notification_settings
     ? {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-id.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-id.ts
index b3785ffcaf5..6a8f73ad39c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-id.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rule-id.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 import { nth } from 'lodash';
 
 import { locationService } from '@grafana/runtime';
-import { CombinedRule, Rule, RuleIdentifier, RuleWithLocation } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import {
+  CloudRuleIdentifier,
+  CombinedRule,
+  EditableRuleIdentifier,
+  Rule,
+  RuleGroupIdentifier,
+  RuleIdentifier,
+  RuleWithLocation,
+} from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 import { Annotations, Labels, RulerRuleDTO } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from './datasource';
@@ -21,7 +29,7 @@ export function fromRulerRule(
   namespace: string,
   groupName: string,
   rule: RulerRuleDTO
-): RuleIdentifier {
+): EditableRuleIdentifier {
   if (isGrafanaRulerRule(rule)) {
     return { uid: rule.grafana_alert.uid!, ruleSourceName: 'grafana' };
   }
@@ -31,7 +39,15 @@ export function fromRulerRule(
     groupName,
     ruleName: isAlertingRulerRule(rule) ? rule.alert : rule.record,
     rulerRuleHash: hashRulerRule(rule),
-  };
+  } satisfies CloudRuleIdentifier;
+}
+
+export function fromRulerRuleAndRuleGroupIdentifier(
+  ruleGroup: RuleGroupIdentifier,
+  rule: RulerRuleDTO
+): EditableRuleIdentifier {
+  const { dataSourceName, namespaceName, groupName } = ruleGroup;
+  return fromRulerRule(dataSourceName, namespaceName, groupName, rule);
 }
 
 export function fromRule(ruleSourceName: string, namespace: string, groupName: string, rule: Rule): RuleIdentifier {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rulerClient.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rulerClient.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ea7804223f..00000000000
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rulerClient.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,289 +0,0 @@
-import {
-  GrafanaRuleIdentifier,
-  RuleIdentifier,
-  RulerDataSourceConfig,
-  RuleWithLocation,
-} from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
-import {
-  PostableRuleGrafanaRuleDTO,
-  PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO,
-  RulerGrafanaRuleDTO,
-  RulerRuleGroupDTO,
-} from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
-
-import { deleteRulerRulesGroup, fetchRulerRules, fetchRulerRulesGroup, setRulerRuleGroup } from '../api/ruler';
-import { RuleFormValues } from '../types/rule-form';
-import * as ruleId from '../utils/rule-id';
-
-import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from './datasource';
-import { formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO, formValuesToRulerRuleDTO } from './rule-form';
-import {
-  isCloudRuleIdentifier,
-  isGrafanaRuleIdentifier,
-  isGrafanaRulerRule,
-  isPrometheusRuleIdentifier,
-} from './rules';
-
-export interface RulerClient {
-  findEditableRule(ruleIdentifier: RuleIdentifier): Promise<RuleWithLocation | null>;
-
-  deleteRule(ruleWithLocation: RuleWithLocation): Promise<void>;
-
-  saveLotexRule(values: RuleFormValues, evaluateEvery: string, existing?: RuleWithLocation): Promise<RuleIdentifier>;
-
-  saveGrafanaRule(
-    values: RuleFormValues,
-    evaluateEvery: string,
-    existing?: RuleWithLocation
-  ): Promise<GrafanaRuleIdentifier>;
-}
-
-export function getRulerClient(rulerConfig: RulerDataSourceConfig): RulerClient {
-  const findEditableRule = async (ruleIdentifier: RuleIdentifier): Promise<RuleWithLocation | null> => {
-    if (isGrafanaRuleIdentifier(ruleIdentifier)) {
-      const namespaces = await fetchRulerRules(rulerConfig);
-      // find namespace and group that contains the uid for the rule
-      for (const [namespace, groups] of Object.entries(namespaces)) {
-        for (const group of groups) {
-          const rule = group.rules.find(
-            (rule) => isGrafanaRulerRule(rule) && rule.grafana_alert?.uid === ruleIdentifier.uid
-          );
-          if (rule) {
-            return {
-              group,
-              ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME,
-              namespace: namespace,
-              namespace_uid: (isGrafanaRulerRule(rule) && rule.grafana_alert.namespace_uid) || undefined,
-              rule,
-            };
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    if (isCloudRuleIdentifier(ruleIdentifier)) {
-      const { ruleSourceName, namespace, groupName } = ruleIdentifier;
-      const group = await fetchRulerRulesGroup(rulerConfig, namespace, groupName);
-
-      if (!group) {
-        return null;
-      }
-
-      const rule = group.rules.find((rule) => {
-        const identifier = ruleId.fromRulerRule(ruleSourceName, namespace, group.name, rule);
-        return ruleId.equal(identifier, ruleIdentifier);
-      });
-
-      if (!rule) {
-        return null;
-      }
-
-      return {
-        group,
-        ruleSourceName,
-        namespace,
-        rule,
-      };
-    }
-
-    if (isPrometheusRuleIdentifier(ruleIdentifier)) {
-      throw new Error('Native prometheus rules can not be edited in grafana.');
-    }
-
-    return null;
-  };
-
-  const deleteRule = async (ruleWithLocation: RuleWithLocation): Promise<void> => {
-    const { namespace, group, rule, namespace_uid } = ruleWithLocation;
-
-    // it was the last rule, delete the entire group
-    if (group.rules.length === 1) {
-      await deleteRulerRulesGroup(rulerConfig, namespace_uid || namespace, group.name);
-      return;
-    }
-    // post the group with rule removed
-    await setRulerRuleGroup(rulerConfig, namespace_uid || namespace, {
-      ...group,
-      rules: group.rules.filter((r) => r !== rule),
-    });
-  };
-
-  const saveLotexRule = async (
-    values: RuleFormValues,
-    evaluateEvery: string,
-    existing?: RuleWithLocation
-  ): Promise<RuleIdentifier> => {
-    const { dataSourceName, group, namespace } = values;
-    const formRule = formValuesToRulerRuleDTO(values);
-    if (dataSourceName && group && namespace) {
-      // if we're updating a rule...
-      if (existing) {
-        // refetch it so we always have the latest greatest
-        const freshExisting = await findEditableRule(ruleId.fromRuleWithLocation(existing));
-        if (!freshExisting) {
-          throw new Error('Rule not found.');
-        }
-        // if namespace or group was changed, delete the old rule
-        if (freshExisting.namespace !== namespace || freshExisting.group.name !== group) {
-          await deleteRule(freshExisting);
-        } else {
-          // if same namespace or group, update the group replacing the old rule with new
-          const payload = {
-            ...freshExisting.group,
-            rules: freshExisting.group.rules.map((existingRule) =>
-              existingRule === freshExisting.rule ? formRule : existingRule
-            ),
-            evaluateEvery: evaluateEvery,
-          };
-          await setRulerRuleGroup(rulerConfig, namespace, payload);
-          return ruleId.fromRulerRule(dataSourceName, namespace, group, formRule);
-        }
-      }
-
-      // if creating new rule or existing rule was in a different namespace/group, create new rule in target group
-
-      const targetGroup = await fetchRulerRulesGroup(rulerConfig, namespace, group);
-
-      const payload: RulerRuleGroupDTO = targetGroup
-        ? {
-            ...targetGroup,
-            rules: [...targetGroup.rules, formRule],
-          }
-        : {
-            name: group,
-            rules: [formRule],
-          };
-
-      await setRulerRuleGroup(rulerConfig, namespace, payload);
-      return ruleId.fromRulerRule(dataSourceName, namespace, group, formRule);
-    } else {
-      throw new Error('Data source and location must be specified');
-    }
-  };
-
-  const saveGrafanaRule = async (
-    values: RuleFormValues,
-    evaluateEvery: string,
-    existingRule?: RuleWithLocation
-  ): Promise<GrafanaRuleIdentifier> => {
-    const { folder, group } = values;
-    if (!folder) {
-      throw new Error('Folder must be specified');
-    }
-
-    const newRule = formValuesToRulerGrafanaRuleDTO(values);
-    const namespaceUID = folder.uid;
-    const groupSpec = { name: group, interval: evaluateEvery };
-
-    if (!existingRule) {
-      return addRuleToNamespaceAndGroup(namespaceUID, groupSpec, newRule);
-    }
-
-    // we'll fetch the existing group again, someone might have updated it while we were editing a rule
-    const freshExisting = await findEditableRule(ruleId.fromRuleWithLocation(existingRule));
-    if (!freshExisting) {
-      throw new Error('Rule not found.');
-    }
-
-    const sameNamespace = freshExisting.namespace_uid === namespaceUID;
-    const sameGroup = freshExisting.group.name === values.group;
-    const sameLocation = sameNamespace && sameGroup;
-
-    if (sameLocation) {
-      // we're update a rule in the same namespace and group
-      return updateGrafanaRule(freshExisting, newRule, evaluateEvery);
-    } else {
-      // we're moving a rule to either a different group or namespace
-      return moveGrafanaRule(namespaceUID, groupSpec, freshExisting, newRule);
-    }
-  };
-
-  const addRuleToNamespaceAndGroup = async (
-    namespaceUID: string,
-    group: { name: string; interval: string },
-    newRule: PostableRuleGrafanaRuleDTO
-  ): Promise<GrafanaRuleIdentifier> => {
-    const existingGroup = await fetchRulerRulesGroup(rulerConfig, namespaceUID, group.name);
-    if (!existingGroup) {
-      throw new Error(`No group found with name "${group.name}"`);
-    }
-
-    const payload: PostableRulerRuleGroupDTO = {
-      name: group.name,
-      interval: group.interval,
-      rules: (existingGroup.rules ?? []).concat(newRule as RulerGrafanaRuleDTO),
-    };
-
-    await setRulerRuleGroup(rulerConfig, namespaceUID, payload);
-
-    return { uid: newRule.grafana_alert.uid ?? '', ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME };
-  };
-
-  // move the rule to another namespace / groupname
-  const moveGrafanaRule = async (
-    namespace: string,
-    group: { name: string; interval: string },
-    existingRule: RuleWithLocation,
-    newRule: PostableRuleGrafanaRuleDTO
-  ): Promise<GrafanaRuleIdentifier> => {
-    // make sure our updated alert has the same UID as before
-    // that way the rule is automatically moved to the new namespace / group name
-    copyGrafanaUID(existingRule, newRule);
-
-    // add the new rule to the requested namespace and group
-    const identifier = await addRuleToNamespaceAndGroup(namespace, group, newRule);
-
-    return identifier;
-  };
-
-  const updateGrafanaRule = async (
-    existingRule: RuleWithLocation,
-    newRule: PostableRuleGrafanaRuleDTO,
-    interval: string
-  ): Promise<GrafanaRuleIdentifier> => {
-    // make sure our updated alert has the same UID as before
-    copyGrafanaUID(existingRule, newRule);
-
-    // create the new array of rules we want to send to the group. Keep the order of alerts in the group.
-    const newRules = existingRule.group.rules.map((rule) => {
-      if (!isGrafanaRulerRule(rule)) {
-        return rule;
-      }
-      if (rule.grafana_alert.uid === existingRule.rule.grafana_alert.uid) {
-        return newRule;
-      }
-      return rule;
-    });
-
-    await setRulerRuleGroup(rulerConfig, existingRule.namespace_uid ?? '', {
-      name: existingRule.group.name,
-      interval: interval,
-      rules: newRules,
-    });
-
-    return { uid: existingRule.rule.grafana_alert.uid, ruleSourceName: GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME };
-  };
-
-  // Would be nice to somehow align checking of ruler type between different methods
-  // Maybe each datasource should have its own ruler client implementation
-  return {
-    findEditableRule,
-    deleteRule,
-    saveLotexRule,
-    saveGrafanaRule,
-  };
-}
-
-//copy the Grafana rule UID from the old rule to the new rule
-function copyGrafanaUID(
-  oldRule: RuleWithLocation,
-  newRule: PostableRuleGrafanaRuleDTO
-): asserts oldRule is RuleWithLocation<RulerGrafanaRuleDTO> {
-  // type guard to make sure we're working with a Grafana managed rule
-  if (!isGrafanaRulerRule(oldRule.rule)) {
-    throw new Error('The rule is not a Grafana managed rule');
-  }
-
-  const uid = oldRule.rule.grafana_alert.uid;
-  newRule.grafana_alert.uid = uid;
-}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rules.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rules.ts
index c0830d19dc9..fe4aa16b4b4 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rules.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/rules.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ import {
   RuleIdentifier,
   RuleNamespace,
   RuleWithLocation,
+  RulesSource,
+  EditableRuleIdentifier,
 } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 import {
   GrafanaAlertState,
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ import {
 import { CombinedRuleNamespace } from '../../../../types/unified-alerting';
 import { State } from '../components/StateTag';
 import { RuleHealth } from '../search/rulesSearchParser';
-import { RuleFormType } from '../types/rule-form';
+import { RuleFormType, RuleFormValues } from '../types/rule-form';
 
 import { RULER_NOT_SUPPORTED_MSG } from './constants';
 import { getRulesSourceName, isGrafanaRulesSource } from './datasource';
@@ -115,6 +117,10 @@ export function isPrometheusRuleIdentifier(identifier: RuleIdentifier): identifi
   return 'ruleHash' in identifier;
 }
 
+export function isEditableRuleIdentifier(identifier: RuleIdentifier): identifier is EditableRuleIdentifier {
+  return isGrafanaRuleIdentifier(identifier) || isCloudRuleIdentifier(identifier);
+}
+
 export function getRuleHealth(health: string): RuleHealth | undefined {
   switch (health) {
     case 'ok':
@@ -350,6 +356,26 @@ export function getRuleGroupLocationFromRuleWithLocation(rule: RuleWithLocation)
   };
 }
 
+export function getRuleGroupLocationFromFormValues(values: RuleFormValues): RuleGroupIdentifier {
+  const dataSourceName = values.dataSourceName;
+  const namespaceName = values.folder?.uid ?? values.namespace;
+  const groupName = values.group;
+
+  if (!dataSourceName) {
+    throw new Error('no datasource name in form values');
+  }
+
+  return {
+    dataSourceName,
+    namespaceName,
+    groupName,
+  };
+}
+
+export function rulesSourceToDataSourceName(rulesSource: RulesSource): string {
+  return isGrafanaRulesSource(rulesSource) ? rulesSource : rulesSource.name;
+}
+
 export function isGrafanaAlertingRuleByType(type?: RuleFormType) {
   return type === RuleFormType.grafana;
 }
diff --git a/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts b/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts
index 64082751f1b..338fa189fc9 100644
--- a/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts
+++ b/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts
@@ -182,7 +182,15 @@ export interface PrometheusRuleIdentifier {
   ruleHash: string;
 }
 
-export type RuleIdentifier = CloudRuleIdentifier | GrafanaRuleIdentifier | PrometheusRuleIdentifier;
+export type RuleIdentifier = EditableRuleIdentifier | PrometheusRuleIdentifier;
+
+/**
+ * This type is a union of all rule identifiers that should have a ruler API
+ *
+ * We do not support PrometheusRuleIdentifier because vanilla Prometheus has no ruler API
+ */
+export type EditableRuleIdentifier = CloudRuleIdentifier | GrafanaRuleIdentifier;
+
 export interface FilterState {
   queryString?: string;
   dataSource?: string;
diff --git a/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json b/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
index 45aff726dd2..410922a0ddb 100644
--- a/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
+++ b/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@
       "recording-rule": "Recording rule"
     },
     "rules": {
+      "add-rule": {
+        "success": "Rule added successfully"
+      },
       "delete-rule": {
         "success": "Rule successfully deleted"
       },
@@ -211,6 +214,9 @@
       },
       "resume-rule": {
         "success": "Rule evaluation resumed"
+      },
+      "update-rule": {
+        "success": "Rule updated successfully"
       }
     }
   },
@@ -345,6 +351,7 @@
     }
   },
   "common": {
+    "cancel": "Cancel",
     "locale": {
       "default": "Default"
     },
diff --git a/public/locales/pseudo-LOCALE/grafana.json b/public/locales/pseudo-LOCALE/grafana.json
index fe72cd0a0b5..f10487ec526 100644
--- a/public/locales/pseudo-LOCALE/grafana.json
+++ b/public/locales/pseudo-LOCALE/grafana.json
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@
       "recording-rule": "Ŗęčőřđįʼnģ řūľę"
     },
     "rules": {
+      "add-rule": {
+        "success": "Ŗūľę äđđęđ şūččęşşƒūľľy"
+      },
       "delete-rule": {
         "success": "Ŗūľę şūččęşşƒūľľy đęľęŧęđ"
       },
@@ -211,6 +214,9 @@
       },
       "resume-rule": {
         "success": "Ŗūľę ęväľūäŧįőʼn řęşūmęđ"
+      },
+      "update-rule": {
+        "success": "Ŗūľę ūpđäŧęđ şūččęşşƒūľľy"
       }
     }
   },
@@ -345,6 +351,7 @@
     }
   },
   "common": {
+    "cancel": "Cäʼnčęľ",
     "locale": {
       "default": "Đęƒäūľŧ"
     },