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Set up Set up Alerting 110

Set up Alerting

Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting.

Note:

These are set-up instructions for Grafana Alerting Open Source.

Before you begin

  • Configure your [data sources][data-source-management]
  • Check which data sources are compatible with and supported by [Grafana Alerting][data-source-alerting]

Watch this short video to get started. {{< youtube id="6W8Nu4b_PXM" >}}

Set up Alerting

To set up Alerting, you need to:

  1. Configure alert rules

    • Create Grafana-managed or Mimir/Loki-managed alert rules and recording rules
  2. Configure contact points

    • Check the default contact point and update the email address

    • [Optional] Add new contact points and integrations

  3. Configure notification policies

    • Check the default notification policy

    • [Optional] Add additional nested policies

    • [Optional] Add labels and label matchers to control alert routing

  4. [Optional] Integrate with Grafana OnCall

Advanced set up options

Grafana Alerting supports many additional configuration options, from configuring external Alertmanagers to routing Grafana-managed alerts outside of Grafana, to defining your alerting setup as code.

The following topics provide you with advanced configuration options for Grafana Alerting.

  • Provision alert rules using file provisioning
  • [Provision alert rules using Terraform][terraform-provisioning]
  • [Add an external Alertmanager][configure-alertmanager]
  • [Configure high availability][configure-high-availability]

{{% docs/reference %}} [configure-alertmanager]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/set-up/configure-alertmanager" [configure-alertmanager]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/set-up/configure-alertmanager"

[configure-high-availability]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/set-up/configure-high-availability" [configure-high-availability]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/set-up/configure-high-availability"

[data-source-alerting]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/fundamentals/data-source-alerting" [data-source-alerting]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/fundamentals/data-source-alerting"

[data-source-management]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management" [data-source-management]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management"

[terraform-provisioning]: "/docs/grafana/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/set-up/provision-alerting-resources/terraform-provisioning" [terraform-provisioning]: "/docs/grafana-cloud/ -> /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/set-up/provision-alerting-resources/terraform-provisioning" {{% /docs/reference %}}