From 773fb5d1ae1afbd2bb8d868d05a82062a0f27a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Torkel=20=C3=96degaard?= <torkel@grafana.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:55:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(alerting): check if dashboard is saved before testing
 alert rule, fixes #6549

---
 pkg/api/alerting.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/api/alerting.go b/pkg/api/alerting.go
index 6d55f03bea3..dcc9b40b07a 100644
--- a/pkg/api/alerting.go
+++ b/pkg/api/alerting.go
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ func GetAlerts(c *middleware.Context) Response {
 
 // POST /api/alerts/test
 func AlertTest(c *middleware.Context, dto dtos.AlertTestCommand) Response {
+	if _, idErr := dto.Dashboard.Get("id").Int64(); idErr != nil {
+		return ApiError(400, "The dashboard needs to be saved at least once before you can test an alert rule", nil)
+	}
+
 	backendCmd := alerting.AlertTestCommand{
 		OrgId:     c.OrgId,
 		Dashboard: dto.Dashboard,