Added initalized state to alerts

pkg/services/alerting/result_handler.go

@@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ func (handler *DefaultResultHandler) Handle(evalContext *EvalContext) error {
 			handler.log.Error("Failed to save annotation for new alert state", "error", err)
 		}
 
-		handler.notifier.Notify(evalContext)
+		if (oldState == m.AlertStateInitialized) && (evalContext.Rule.State == m.AlertStateOK) {
+			handler.log.Info("Notfication not sent", "oldState", oldState, "newState", evalContext.Rule.State)
+		} else {
+			handler.notifier.Notify(evalContext)
+		}
+
 	}
 
 	return nil
@@ -98,6 +103,8 @@ func (handler *DefaultResultHandler) shouldUpdateAlertState(evalContext *EvalCon
 
 func countStateResult(state m.AlertStateType) {
 	switch state {
+	case m.AlertStateInitialized:
+		metrics.M_Alerting_Result_State_Initialized.Inc(1)
 	case m.AlertStateAlerting:
 		metrics.M_Alerting_Result_State_Alerting.Inc(1)
 	case m.AlertStateOK:

pkg/services/sqlstore/alert.go

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func upsertAlerts(existingAlerts []*m.Alert, cmd *m.SaveAlertsCommand, sess *xor
 		} else {
 			alert.Updated = time.Now()
 			alert.Created = time.Now()
-			alert.State = m.AlertStateNoData
+			alert.State = m.AlertStateInitialized
 			alert.NewStateDate = time.Now()
 
 			_, err := sess.Insert(alert)