From 3789583014fc6d1e2de0eb03b479953feea0e696 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bergquist <carl.bergquist@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:51:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] for: use 0m as default for existing alerts and 5m for new

---
 public/app/features/alerting/AlertTabCtrl.ts | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/AlertTabCtrl.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/AlertTabCtrl.ts
index 758b3273d1a..2efd3c062c4 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/AlertTabCtrl.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/AlertTabCtrl.ts
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ export class AlertTabCtrl {
     alert.frequency = alert.frequency || '1m';
     alert.handler = alert.handler || 1;
     alert.notifications = alert.notifications || [];
-    alert.for = alert.for || '5m';
+    alert.for = alert.for || '0m';
 
     const defaultName = this.panel.title + ' alert';
     alert.name = alert.name || defaultName;
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ export class AlertTabCtrl {
   enable() {
     this.panel.alert = {};
     this.initModel();
+    this.panel.alert.for = '5m'; //default value for new alerts. for existing alerts we use 0m to avoid breaking changes
   }
 
   evaluatorParamsChanged() {