diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json b/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json
index 02ba02e6e89..7de072c6948 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/opentsdb/plugin.json
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   "metrics": true,
   "defaultMatchFormat": "pipe",
   "annotations": true,
+  "alerting": true,
 
   "info": {
     "author": {