From 469b805515ebf4f8a5e811376384cb01b5bc2cb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Grot (@grafanabot)" <43478413+grafanabot@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:56:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [Alerting] Update documentation with regards to clustering (#36261) (#36264) * [Alerting] Update documentation with regards to clustering * 8.1 not 8.2 (cherry picked from commit 91751d7e38cd0b8e0b5d8e8e158002dea34216e9) Co-authored-by: gotjosh --- docs/sources/alerting/unified-alerting/_index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/unified-alerting/_index.md b/docs/sources/alerting/unified-alerting/_index.md index 7ab028df10c..42d7e985580 100644 --- a/docs/sources/alerting/unified-alerting/_index.md +++ b/docs/sources/alerting/unified-alerting/_index.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ You can perform the following tasks for alerts: ## Clustering -Currently alerting supports a limited form of high availability. Alert notifications are deduped when running multiple servers. This means all alerts are executed on every server but no duplicate alert notifications are sent due to the deduping logic. Proper load balancing of alerts will be introduced in the future. +The current alerting system doesn't support high availability. Alert notifications are not deduplicated and load balancing is not supported between instances e.g. silences from one instance will not appear in the other. The Grafana team aims to have this feature by Grafana version 8.1+. ## Alert evaluation