Declare incidents from firing alerts

Declare an incident from a firing alert to streamline your alert to incident workflow.

Before you begin

To declare an incident from a firing alert, complete the following steps.

Navigate to Alerts & Incidents -> Alerting -> Alert rules.
From the Alert rules list view, click the firing alert that you want to declare an incident for.
Note:
You can also access Declare Incident from the alert details page.
Click Declare Incident. The Declare Incident pop-up opens in the Grafana Incident application.
In the Declare Incident pop-up, enter what’s going on.
Note: This field is pre-filled with the name of the alert rule, but you can edit it as required.
The alert rule is also linked to the incident.
Select a severity.
Add labels, as required.
Click More options to include a channel prefix and status.
Click Declare Incident.