Alerts allow you to be notified as soon as a system problem arises. Robust and responsive notifications let you discover and resolve problems quickly, reducing service disruption.
Grafana 8.0 included new and improved alerting, which combines alerting data into a single, searchable dashboard. You'll be able to do things like:
- Set up and manage Grafana alerts.
- Create and manage Loki and Cortex-managed alerts.
- View alerting data from Prometheus and Alertmanager compatible data sources.
- Grafana alerts are enabled by default for new OSS installations. For older movies, it's still an opt-in option.
Grafana alerting is made up of four main elements:
- Alerting rule -An alerting rule is a set of evaluation criteria that determines whether or not an alert will be triggered. It contains one or more queries and expressions, a condition, the frequency with which the condition is evaluated, and, optionally, the time over which the condition is met.
- Contact point - When the conditions of an alerting rule are met, the contact point is used to deliver notifications.
- Notification policy - A set of matching and grouping criteria used to define where and how often notifications should be sent.
- Silences - When a notice is silenced, it is based on the date and matching criteria.
