diff --git a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_provisioning_test.go b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_provisioning_test.go
index e2db47386db..0d62ee98ed3 100644
--- a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_provisioning_test.go
+++ b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_provisioning_test.go
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ func TestProvisioningApi(t *testing.T) {
     is_paused      = false
 
     notification_settings {
-      receiver            = "Test-Receiver"
+      contact_point       = "Test-Receiver"
       group_by            = ["alertname", "grafana_folder", "test"]
       group_wait          = "1s"
       group_interval      = "5s"
diff --git a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/test-data/post-rulegroup-101-export.hcl b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/test-data/post-rulegroup-101-export.hcl
index 2cfb1ba5b0e..19810a71554 100644
--- a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/test-data/post-rulegroup-101-export.hcl
+++ b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/test-data/post-rulegroup-101-export.hcl
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ resource "grafana_rule_group" "rule_group_0000" {
     is_paused      = false
 
     notification_settings {
-      receiver            = "Test-Receiver"
+      contact_point       = "Test-Receiver"
       group_by            = ["alertname", "grafana_folder", "test"]
       group_wait          = "1s"
       group_interval      = "5s"
diff --git a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/tooling/definitions/provisioning_alert_rules.go b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/tooling/definitions/provisioning_alert_rules.go
index bd8e1548861..0ebd6384a73 100644
--- a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/tooling/definitions/provisioning_alert_rules.go
+++ b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/tooling/definitions/provisioning_alert_rules.go
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ type RelativeTimeRangeExport struct {
 
 // AlertRuleNotificationSettingsExport is the provisioned export of models.NotificationSettings.
 type AlertRuleNotificationSettingsExport struct {
-	Receiver string `yaml:"receiver,omitempty" json:"receiver,omitempty" hcl:"receiver"`
+	// Terraform provider uses `contact_point`, so export the field with that name in HCL.
+	Receiver string `yaml:"receiver,omitempty" json:"receiver,omitempty" hcl:"contact_point"`
 
 	GroupBy           []string `yaml:"group_by,omitempty" json:"group_by,omitempty" hcl:"group_by"`
 	GroupWait         *string  `yaml:"group_wait,omitempty" json:"group_wait,omitempty" hcl:"group_wait,optional"`