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 Alerts allow you to know about problems in your systems moments after they occur. Robust and actionable alerts help you identify and resolve issues quickly, minimizing disruption to your services.
 
-Grafana 8.0 has new and improved alerts. The new alerting system are an [opt-in]({{< relref "./unified-alerting/opt-in.md" >}}) feature that centralizes alerting information for Grafana managed alerts and alerts from Prometheus-compatible data sources in one UI and API.
+Grafana 8.0 has new and improved alerts. The new alerting system is an [opt-in]({{< relref "./unified-alerting/opt-in.md" >}}) feature that centralizes alerting information for Grafana managed alerts and alerts from Prometheus-compatible data sources in one UI and API.
+
+> **Note:** Out of the box, Grafana still supports old [legacy dashboard alerts]({{< relref "../old-alerting/_index.md" >}}). We encourage you to create issues in the Grafana GitHub repository for bugs found while testing Grafana 8 alerts.
 
 Alerts have four main components:
 
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 Alerts allow you to know about problems in your systems moments after they occur. Robust and actionable alerts help you identify and resolve issues quickly, minimizing disruption to your services.
 
-> **Note:** This information is for the new, Grafana 8 Alerts. This is an [opt-in]({{< relref"./opt-in.md" >}}) feature released in Grafana 8.0. Grafana still supports [legacy dashboard alerts]({{< relref "../old-alerting/_index.md" >}}) out of the box
+> **Note:** Grafana 8 alerts (beta) is an [opt-in]({{< relref"./opt-in.md" >}}) feature. Out of the box, Grafana still supports old [legacy dashboard alerts]({{< relref "../old-alerting/_index.md" >}}). We encourage you to create issues in the Grafana GitHub repository for bugs found while testing this new feature.
 
-Alerts have four main components:
+Grafana 8 alerts have four main components:
 
 - Alerting rule - One or more query and/or expression, a condition, the frequency of evaluation, and the (optional) duration that a condition must be met before creating an alert.
 - Contact point - A channel for sending notifications when the conditions of an alerting rule are met.