From 689f349cda7962e8100a2979b3823c600a27cd76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gilles De Mey Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 10:42:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Docs: add note on alerting limitation for being an alert receiver (#50331) Co-authored-by: gotjosh Co-authored-by: brendamuir <100768211+brendamuir@users.noreply.github.com> --- docs/sources/alerting/alerting-limitations.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/alerting-limitations.md b/docs/sources/alerting/alerting-limitations.md index 1efc1fffeea..58b9a955f95 100644 --- a/docs/sources/alerting/alerting-limitations.md +++ b/docs/sources/alerting/alerting-limitations.md @@ -7,5 +7,22 @@ weight: 552 # Limitations -- Grafana alerting system can retrieve rules from all available Prometheus, Loki, and Alertmanager data sources. It might not be able to fetch alerting rules from all other supported data sources at this time. -- We aim to support the latest two minor versions of both Prometheus and Alertmanager. We cannot guarantee that older versions will work. As an example, if the current Prometheus version is `2.31.1`, we support >= `2.29.0`. +## Limited rule sources support + +Grafana Alerting can retrieve alerting and recording rules **stored** in most available Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, and Alertmanager compatible data sources. + +It does not support reading or writing alerting rules from any other data sources but the ones previously mentioned at this time. + +## Prometheus version support + +We support the latest two minor versions of both Prometheus and Alertmanager. We cannot guarantee that older versions will work. + +As an example, if the current Prometheus version is `2.31.1`, we support >= `2.29.0`. + +## Grafana is not an alert receiver + +Grafana is not an alert receiver; is it an alert generator. This means that Grafana cannot receive alerts from anything other than its internal alert generator. + +Receiving alerts from Prometheus (or anything else) is not supported at the time. + +For more information, refer to [this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/45773).