diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md b/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md index adb926af43f..73b734f2a9c 100644 --- a/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md +++ b/docs/sources/alerting/performance-limitations/index.md @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ We support the latest two minor versions of both Prometheus and Alertmanager. We As an example, if the current Prometheus version is `2.31.1`, we support >= `2.29.0`. -## Grafana is not an alert receiver +## The Grafana Alertmanager can only receive Grafana managed alerts -Grafana is not an alert receiver; it is an alert generator. This means that Grafana cannot receive alerts from anything other than its internal alert generator. +Grafana cannot be used to receive external alerts. You can only send alerts to the Grafana Alertmanager using Grafana managed alerts. -Receiving alerts from Prometheus (or anything else) is not supported at the time. +You have the option to send Grafana managed alerts to an external Alertmanager, you can find this option in the admin tab on the Alerting page. -For more information, refer to [this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/45773). +For more information, refer to [this GitHub discussion](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/discussions/45773). To learn more about the different Alertmanagers, read [this documentation]({{< relref "../alerting/manage-notifications/alertmanager/" >}})