From 64ccbf0a982dd62abf7b3377c9b83dd84f2af4b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Armand Grillet <2117580+armandgrillet@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 17:31:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update docs regarding Grafana as an alert receiver (#59938)

* Update docs regarding Grafana as an alert receiver

* Add link to AM docs
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 docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md b/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md
index adb926af43f..73b734f2a9c 100644
--- a/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md
+++ b/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ We support the latest two minor versions of both Prometheus and Alertmanager. We
 
 As an example, if the current Prometheus version is `2.31.1`, we support >= `2.29.0`.
 
-## Grafana is not an alert receiver
+## The Grafana Alertmanager can only receive Grafana managed alerts
 
-Grafana is not an alert receiver; it is an alert generator. This means that Grafana cannot receive alerts from anything other than its internal alert generator.
+Grafana cannot be used to receive external alerts. You can only send alerts to the Grafana Alertmanager using Grafana managed alerts.
 
-Receiving alerts from Prometheus (or anything else) is not supported at the time.
+You have the option to send Grafana managed alerts to an external Alertmanager, you can find this option in the admin tab on the Alerting page.
 
-For more information, refer to [this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/45773).
+For more information, refer to [this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/45773). To learn more about the different Alertmanagers, read [this documentation]({{< relref "../alerting/manage-notifications/alertmanager/" >}})