From 6659ed8722278339531634236a01bbd6b0e045ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pangidoan Butar <38452094+doanbutar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 22:54:33 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Special alerts for NoData and Error (#79193)

* Special alerts for NoData and Error

To avoid confusion why there is no additional label added when setting `Alerting` or `OK` in the No Data and Error handling

* ran prettier

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Co-authored-by: brendamuir <100768211+brendamuir@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .../alerting/manage-notifications/view-state-health.md        | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/view-state-health.md b/docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/view-state-health.md
index 845b68271cc..0ebed5afd11 100644
--- a/docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/view-state-health.md
+++ b/docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/view-state-health.md
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ When evaluation of an alerting rule produces state `NoData` or `Error`, Grafana
 | **alertname**      | Either `DatasourceNoData` or `DatasourceError` depending on the state. |
 | **datasource_uid** | The UID of the data source that caused the state.                      |
 
+{{% admonition type="note" %}}
+You will need to set the No Data and Error Handling to `No Data` or `Error` in the alert rule as per this doc: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/alerting-rules/create-grafana-managed-rule/#configure-no-data-and-error-handling in order to generate the additional labels.
+{{% /admonition %}}
+
 You can handle these alerts the same way as regular alerts by adding a silence, route to a contact point, and so on.
 
 ## State history view