From 37c6c519c8b7d02b575735c54f5f2e639056fdff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pepe Cano <825430+ppcano@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:00:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs(alerting): stale alert instance minor change (#103030)

docs(alerting): stale alert instance minor text change
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 .../fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health.md      | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health.md b/docs/sources/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health.md
index 471d04ad777..3cfbc85c31e 100644
--- a/docs/sources/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health.md
+++ b/docs/sources/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health.md
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ The `No Data` state occurs when the alert rule query runs successfully but retur
 
 An alert instance is considered stale if the query returns data but its dimension or series has disappeared for two evaluation intervals. In this case, the alert instance transitions to the **Normal (MissingSeries)** state as resolved, and is then evicted.
 
+The process for handling stale alert instances is as follows:
+
 1. The alert rule runs and returns data for some label sets.
 
 1. An alert instance that previously existed is now missing.