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Set up Alerting
Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting.
Note:
These are set-up instructions for Grafana Alerting Open Source.
To set up Grafana Alerting for Cloud, see Set up Alerting for Cloud.
Before you begin
- Configure your data sources
- Check which data sources are compatible with and supported by Grafana Alerting
Set up Alerting
To set up Alerting, you need to:
Configure alert rules
- Create Grafana-managed or Mimir/Loki-managed alert rules and recording rules
Configure contact points
Check the default contact point and update the email address
[Optional] Add new contact points and integrations
Configure notification policies
Check the default notification policy
[Optional] Add additional nested policies
[Optional] Add labels and label matchers to control alert routing
[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.