How Grafana manages alerts
From version 8.0, Grafana manages alerts in a centralized way, so you can create, manage, and view alerts in the same place, as you can see in the following screenshot:
Figure 10.1 – Alerting manager in Grafana
This alerting system is enabled by default.
When the alerting manager is enabled, you can do the following:
- Create alert rules.
- View current rules and manage their state.
- View the state and health of rules.
- Add or modify contact points (notification systems).
- Add or modify notification policies.
- Add or modify silences.
Grafana uses Alertmanager from Prometheus for managing alerts. Alertmanager is embedded in Grafana, so you don’t have to install it separately. If you want to learn about Prometheus Alertmanager, you can go to the following page: https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/alertmanager/.
Now, let’s see how you can use Alertmanager.
