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 **Example**
 Refer to the [Documentation style guide](documentation-style-guide.md) for information about word usage and capitalization guidelines.
 
+### Notes, tips, cautions, and warnings
+
+Grafana documentation uses notes, tips, cautions, and warnings. Notes are the most common. The format for all of them is indented, bold, sentence case:
+
+```
+> **Note:**
+```
+
+#### Notes
+
+Notes provide additional information that the user should be extra aware of. For example:
+
+> **Note:** This page describes a feature for Grafana 7.0 beta.
+
+#### Tips
+
+Tips describe alternate or more efficient ways of doing things. Rarely used.
+
+#### Cautions
+
+Cautions warn the user that they should proceed with caution. Use cautions to emphasize the potential downside of a course of action.
+
+> **Caution:** If you turn off authentication requirements, then anyone can access your Grafana instance. This poses a considerable security risk.
+
+#### Warnings
+
+Warnings tell the user not to do something. For example:
+
+> **Warning:** Grafana does not back up your dashboards. If you delete a dashboard, then you might not be able to recover it.
+
 ### Command line examples
 
 * Do not assume everyone is using Linux. Make sure instructions include enough information for Windows and Mac users to successfully complete procedures.