Set up Alerting - Amazon Managed Grafana

Set up Alerting

This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x.

For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 9.x, see Working in Grafana version 9.

For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 8.x, see Working in Grafana version 8.

Configure the features and integrations that you need to create and manage your alerts.

Prerequisites

Before you set up alerting, you must do the following.

To set up alerting

  1. Configure alert rules.

    • Create Grafana-managed or data-source managed alert rules and recording rules.

  2. Configure contact points.

    • Check the default contact point, and update the contact for your system.

    • Optionally, add new contact points and integrations.

  3. Configure notification policies

    • Check the default notification policy, and update for your system.

    • Optionally, add additional nested policies.

    • Optionally, add labels and label matchers to control alert routing.

The following topics give you more information about additional configuration options, including configuring external alert managers and routing Grafana-managed alerts outside of Grafana.

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