diff --git a/.betterer.results b/.betterer.results
index b044889ad27..23c6330def8 100644
--- a/.betterer.results
+++ b/.betterer.results
@@ -1632,10 +1632,7 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "0"]
     ],
     "public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/AlertStateDot.tsx:5381": [
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "0"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "1"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "2"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "3"]
+      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "0"]
     ],
     "public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/AnnotationDetailsField.tsx:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"],
@@ -1758,16 +1755,12 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "1"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "2"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "3"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "4"]
+      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "3"]
     ],
     "public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertGroupHeader.tsx:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "1"]
     ],
-    "public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertStateFilter.tsx:5381": [
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "0"]
-    ],
     "public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/GroupBy.tsx:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"]
     ],
@@ -2272,8 +2265,7 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "1"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "2"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "3"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "4"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "5"]
+      [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "4"]
     ],
     "public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleHealth.tsx:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Styles should be written using objects.", "0"]
@@ -2449,6 +2441,9 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "1"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "2"]
     ],
+    "public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/misc.ts:5381": [
+      [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"]
+    ],
     "public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/receiver-form.ts:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "1"],
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Alert/Alert.tsx b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Alert/Alert.tsx
index fb0cf2c080c..98bbf23669e 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Alert/Alert.tsx
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/Alert/Alert.tsx
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ export const Alert = React.forwardRef<HTMLDivElement, Props>(
           </Box>
 
           <Box paddingY={1} grow={1}>
-            <Text weight="medium">{title}</Text>
+            <Text color="primary" weight="medium">
+              {title}
+            </Text>
             {children && <div className={styles.content}>{children}</div>}
           </Box>
           {/* If onRemove is specified, giving preference to onRemove */}
@@ -151,6 +153,7 @@ const getStyles = (
       color: color.text,
     }),
     content: css({
+      color: theme.colors.text.primary,
       paddingTop: hasTitle ? theme.spacing(0.5) : 0,
       maxHeight: '50vh',
       overflowY: 'auto',
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/Page/PageHeader.tsx b/public/app/core/components/Page/PageHeader.tsx
index d6f8aba8505..23a7796c2c1 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/Page/PageHeader.tsx
+++ b/public/app/core/components/Page/PageHeader.tsx
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
     title: css({
       display: 'flex',
       flexDirection: 'row',
+      maxWidth: '100%',
       h1: {
         display: 'flex',
         marginBottom: 0,
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleViewer.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleViewer.tsx
index 772c0936dff..da62e5d4c3e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleViewer.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/RuleViewer.tsx
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { GrafanaRouteComponentProps } from 'app/core/navigation/types';
 import { AlertingPageWrapper } from './components/AlertingPageWrapper';
 import { AlertRuleProvider } from './components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleContext';
 import { useCombinedRule } from './hooks/useCombinedRule';
+import { stringifyErrorLike } from './utils/misc';
 import { getRuleIdFromPathname, parse as parseRuleId } from './utils/rule-id';
 
 const DetailViewV1 = SafeDynamicImport(() => import('./components/rule-viewer/RuleViewer.v1'));
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ type RuleViewerProps = GrafanaRouteComponentProps<{
   sourceName: string;
 }>;
 
-const newAlertDetailView = Boolean(config.featureToggles.alertingDetailsViewV2) === true;
+const newAlertDetailView = Boolean(config.featureToggles?.alertingDetailsViewV2) === true;
 
 const RuleViewer = (props: RuleViewerProps): JSX.Element => {
   return newAlertDetailView ? <RuleViewerV2Wrapper {...props} /> : <RuleViewerV1Wrapper {...props} />;
@@ -48,13 +49,12 @@ const RuleViewerV2Wrapper = (props: RuleViewerProps) => {
   // we then fetch the rule from the correct API endpoint(s)
   const { loading, error, result: rule } = useCombinedRule({ ruleIdentifier: identifier });
 
-  // TODO improve error handling here
   if (error) {
-    if (typeof error === 'string') {
-      return error;
-    }
-
-    return <Alert title={'Uh-oh'}>Something went wrong loading the rule</Alert>;
+    return (
+      <AlertingPageWrapper pageNav={defaultPageNav} navId="alert-list">
+        <Alert title={'Something went wrong loading the rule'}>{stringifyErrorLike(error)}</Alert>
+      </AlertingPageWrapper>
+    );
   }
 
   if (loading) {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/AlertStateDot.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/AlertStateDot.tsx
index 01a991d6450..c48efda4af5 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/AlertStateDot.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/AlertStateDot.tsx
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@ import { css } from '@emotion/css';
 import React from 'react';
 
 import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
-import { ComponentSize, Stack, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
-import { PromAlertingRuleState } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import { Stack, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
+
+interface DotStylesProps {
+  color: 'success' | 'error' | 'warning' | 'info';
+  includeState?: boolean;
+}
 
 const AlertStateDot = (props: DotStylesProps) => {
   const styles = useStyles2(getDotStyles, props);
@@ -15,16 +19,14 @@ const AlertStateDot = (props: DotStylesProps) => {
   );
 };
 
-interface DotStylesProps {
-  state: PromAlertingRuleState;
-  includeState?: boolean;
-  size?: ComponentSize; // TODO support this
-}
-
 const getDotStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2, props: DotStylesProps) => {
   const size = theme.spacing(1.25);
   const outlineSize = `calc(${size} / 2.5)`;
 
+  const errorStyle = props.color === 'error';
+  const successStyle = props.color === 'success';
+  const warningStyle = props.color === 'warning';
+
   return {
     dot: css`
       width: ${size};
@@ -36,23 +38,23 @@ const getDotStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2, props: DotStylesProps) => {
       outline: solid ${outlineSize} ${theme.colors.secondary.transparent};
       margin: ${outlineSize};
 
-      ${props.state === PromAlertingRuleState.Inactive &&
-      css`
-        background-color: ${theme.colors.success.main};
-        outline-color: ${theme.colors.success.transparent};
-      `}
+      ${successStyle &&
+      css({
+        backgroundColor: theme.colors.success.main,
+        outlineColor: theme.colors.success.transparent,
+      })}
 
-      ${props.state === PromAlertingRuleState.Pending &&
-      css`
-        background-color: ${theme.colors.warning.main};
-        outline-color: ${theme.colors.warning.transparent};
-      `}
+      ${warningStyle &&
+      css({
+        backgroundColor: theme.colors.warning.main,
+        outlineColor: theme.colors.warning.transparent,
+      })}
 
-      ${props.state === PromAlertingRuleState.Firing &&
-      css`
-        background-color: ${theme.colors.error.main};
-        outline-color: ${theme.colors.error.transparent};
-      `}
+      ${errorStyle &&
+      css({
+        backgroundColor: theme.colors.error.main,
+        outlineColor: theme.colors.error.transparent,
+      })}
     `,
   };
 };
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/Provisioning.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/Provisioning.tsx
index a5b66f73bc6..78a7c28ac08 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/Provisioning.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/Provisioning.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import React from 'react';
+import React, { ComponentPropsWithoutRef } from 'react';
 
 import { Alert, Badge } from '@grafana/ui';
 
@@ -10,13 +10,16 @@ export enum ProvisionedResource {
   RootNotificationPolicy = 'root notification policy',
 }
 
-interface ProvisioningAlertProps {
+// we'll omit the props we don't want consumers to overwrite and forward the others to the alert component
+type ExtraAlertProps = Omit<ComponentPropsWithoutRef<typeof Alert>, 'title' | 'severity'>;
+
+interface ProvisioningAlertProps extends ExtraAlertProps {
   resource: ProvisionedResource;
 }
 
-export const ProvisioningAlert = ({ resource }: ProvisioningAlertProps) => {
+export const ProvisioningAlert = ({ resource, ...rest }: ProvisioningAlertProps) => {
   return (
-    <Alert title={`This ${resource} cannot be edited through the UI`} severity="info">
+    <Alert title={`This ${resource} cannot be edited through the UI`} severity="info" {...rest}>
       This {resource} has been provisioned, that means it was created by config. Please contact your server admin to
       update this {resource}.
     </Alert>
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/WithReturnButton.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/WithReturnButton.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5d8ef8c8e34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/WithReturnButton.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import React, { useCallback } from 'react';
+
+import { useReturnToPrevious } from '@grafana/runtime';
+
+interface WithReturnButtonProps {
+  component: JSX.Element;
+  title?: string;
+}
+
+// @TODO translations?
+export const WithReturnButton = ({ component, title = 'previous page' }: WithReturnButtonProps) => {
+  const returnToPrevious = useReturnToPrevious();
+
+  const returnToThisURL = useCallback(() => {
+    returnToPrevious(title);
+  }, [returnToPrevious, title]);
+
+  return React.cloneElement(component, { onClick: returnToThisURL });
+};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertGroupFilter.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertGroupFilter.tsx
index 4b7afe05247..aad3722a343 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertGroupFilter.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertGroupFilter.tsx
@@ -39,13 +39,11 @@ export const AlertGroupFilter = ({ groups }: Props) => {
     <div className={styles.wrapper}>
       <div className={styles.filterSection}>
         <MatcherFilter
-          className={styles.filterInput}
           key={matcherFilterKey}
           defaultQueryString={queryString}
           onFilterChange={(value) => setQueryParams({ queryString: value ? value : null })}
         />
         <GroupBy
-          className={styles.filterInput}
           groups={groups}
           groupBy={groupBy}
           onGroupingChange={(keys) => setQueryParams({ groupBy: keys.length ? keys.join(',') : null })}
@@ -73,12 +71,7 @@ const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => ({
     display: flex;
     flex-direction: row;
     margin-bottom: ${theme.spacing(3)};
-  `,
-  filterInput: css`
-    width: 340px;
-    & + & {
-      margin-left: ${theme.spacing(1)};
-    }
+    gap: ${theme.spacing(1)};
   `,
   clearButton: css`
     margin-left: ${theme.spacing(1)};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertStateFilter.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertStateFilter.tsx
index 507a4d693c6..d94e2c36b0e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertStateFilter.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/AlertStateFilter.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-import { css } from '@emotion/css';
 import React from 'react';
 
-import { GrafanaTheme2, SelectableValue } from '@grafana/data';
-import { RadioButtonGroup, Label, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { SelectableValue } from '@grafana/data';
+import { RadioButtonGroup, Label } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { AlertState } from 'app/plugins/datasource/alertmanager/types';
 
 interface Props {
@@ -11,7 +10,6 @@ interface Props {
 }
 
 export const AlertStateFilter = ({ onStateFilterChange, stateFilter }: Props) => {
-  const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
   const alertStateOptions: SelectableValue[] = Object.entries(AlertState)
     .sort(([labelA], [labelB]) => (labelA < labelB ? -1 : 1))
     .map(([label, state]) => ({
@@ -20,15 +18,9 @@ export const AlertStateFilter = ({ onStateFilterChange, stateFilter }: Props) =>
     }));
 
   return (
-    <div className={styles.wrapper}>
+    <div>
       <Label>State</Label>
       <RadioButtonGroup options={alertStateOptions} value={stateFilter} onChange={onStateFilterChange} />
     </div>
   );
 };
-
-const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => ({
-  wrapper: css`
-    margin-left: ${theme.spacing(1)};
-  `,
-});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/GroupBy.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/GroupBy.tsx
index 7d60a1631fc..a35dba726d1 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/GroupBy.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/GroupBy.tsx
@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@ import { Icon, Label, MultiSelect } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { AlertmanagerGroup } from 'app/plugins/datasource/alertmanager/types';
 
 interface Props {
-  className?: string;
   groups: AlertmanagerGroup[];
   groupBy: string[];
   onGroupingChange: (keys: string[]) => void;
 }
 
-export const GroupBy = ({ className, groups, groupBy, onGroupingChange }: Props) => {
+export const GroupBy = ({ groups, groupBy, onGroupingChange }: Props) => {
   const labelKeyOptions = uniq(groups.flatMap((group) => group.alerts).flatMap(({ labels }) => Object.keys(labels)))
     .filter((label) => !(label.startsWith('__') && label.endsWith('__'))) // Filter out private labels
     .map<SelectableValue>((key) => ({
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ export const GroupBy = ({ className, groups, groupBy, onGroupingChange }: Props)
     }));
 
   return (
-    <div data-testid={'group-by-container'} className={className}>
+    <div data-testid={'group-by-container'}>
       <Label>Custom group by</Label>
       <MultiSelect
         aria-label={'group by label keys'}
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ export const GroupBy = ({ className, groups, groupBy, onGroupingChange }: Props)
           onGroupingChange(items.map(({ value }) => value as string));
         }}
         options={labelKeyOptions}
+        width={34}
       />
     </div>
   );
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/MatcherFilter.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/MatcherFilter.tsx
index 3246fcbc6d2..02dab1c9eea 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/MatcherFilter.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/alert-groups/MatcherFilter.tsx
@@ -9,12 +9,11 @@ import { logInfo, LogMessages } from '../../Analytics';
 import { parseMatchers } from '../../utils/alertmanager';
 
 interface Props {
-  className?: string;
   defaultQueryString?: string;
   onFilterChange: (filterString: string) => void;
 }
 
-export const MatcherFilter = ({ className, onFilterChange, defaultQueryString }: Props) => {
+export const MatcherFilter = ({ onFilterChange, defaultQueryString }: Props) => {
   const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
 
   const onSearchInputChanged = useMemo(
@@ -33,51 +32,50 @@ export const MatcherFilter = ({ className, onFilterChange, defaultQueryString }:
   const inputInvalid = defaultQueryString ? parseMatchers(defaultQueryString).length === 0 : false;
 
   return (
-    <div className={className}>
-      <Field
-        invalid={inputInvalid || undefined}
-        error={inputInvalid ? 'Query must use valid matcher syntax. See the examples in the help tooltip.' : null}
-        label={
-          <Label>
-            <Stack gap={0.5}>
-              <span>Search by label</span>
-              <Tooltip
-                content={
-                  <div>
-                    Filter alerts using label querying without spaces, ex:
-                    <pre>{`{severity="critical", instance=~"cluster-us-.+"}`}</pre>
-                    Invalid use of spaces:
-                    <pre>{`{severity= "critical"}`}</pre>
-                    <pre>{`{severity ="critical"}`}</pre>
-                    Valid use of spaces:
-                    <pre>{`{severity=" critical"}`}</pre>
-                    Filter alerts using label querying without braces, ex:
-                    <pre>{`severity="critical", instance=~"cluster-us-.+"`}</pre>
-                  </div>
-                }
-              >
-                <Icon className={styles.icon} name="info-circle" size="sm" />
-              </Tooltip>
-            </Stack>
-          </Label>
-        }
-      >
-        <Input
-          placeholder="Search"
-          defaultValue={defaultQueryString ?? ''}
-          onChange={onSearchInputChanged}
-          data-testid="search-query-input"
-          prefix={searchIcon}
-          className={styles.inputWidth}
-        />
-      </Field>
-    </div>
+    <Field
+      className={styles.fixMargin}
+      invalid={inputInvalid || undefined}
+      error={inputInvalid ? 'Query must use valid matcher syntax. See the examples in the help tooltip.' : null}
+      label={
+        <Label>
+          <Stack gap={0.5}>
+            <span>Search by label</span>
+            <Tooltip
+              content={
+                <div>
+                  Filter alerts using label querying without spaces, ex:
+                  <pre>{`{severity="critical", instance=~"cluster-us-.+"}`}</pre>
+                  Invalid use of spaces:
+                  <pre>{`{severity= "critical"}`}</pre>
+                  <pre>{`{severity ="critical"}`}</pre>
+                  Valid use of spaces:
+                  <pre>{`{severity=" critical"}`}</pre>
+                  Filter alerts using label querying without braces, ex:
+                  <pre>{`severity="critical", instance=~"cluster-us-.+"`}</pre>
+                </div>
+              }
+            >
+              <Icon name="info-circle" size="sm" />
+            </Tooltip>
+          </Stack>
+        </Label>
+      }
+    >
+      <Input
+        placeholder="Search"
+        defaultValue={defaultQueryString ?? ''}
+        onChange={onSearchInputChanged}
+        data-testid="search-query-input"
+        prefix={searchIcon}
+        className={styles.inputWidth}
+      />
+    </Field>
   );
 };
 
 const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => ({
-  icon: css({
-    marginRight: theme.spacing(0.5),
+  fixMargin: css({
+    marginBottom: 0,
   }),
   inputWidth: css({
     width: 340,
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/FederatedRuleWarning.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/FederatedRuleWarning.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..76bf9317abf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/FederatedRuleWarning.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
+import { Alert, Button, Stack } from '@grafana/ui';
+
+export function FederatedRuleWarning() {
+  return (
+    <Alert severity="info" title="This rule is part of a federated rule group." bottomSpacing={0} topSpacing={2}>
+      <Stack direction="column">
+        Federated rule groups are currently an experimental feature.
+        <Button fill="text" icon="book">
+          <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/metrics-enterprise/latest/tenant-management/tenant-federation/#cross-tenant-alerting-and-recording-rule-federation">
+            Read documentation
+          </a>
+        </Button>
+      </Stack>
+    </Alert>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewerVisualization.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewerVisualization.tsx
index ead6e0cf27f..aa9b8614177 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewerVisualization.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewerVisualization.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/core';
 import { isExpressionQuery } from 'app/features/expressions/guards';
 import { AlertDataQuery, AlertQuery } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
+import { WithReturnButton } from '../WithReturnButton';
 import { VizWrapper } from '../rule-editor/VizWrapper';
 import { ThresholdDefinition } from '../rule-editor/util';
 
@@ -74,15 +75,13 @@ export function RuleViewerVisualization({
           ) : null}
 
           {allowedToExploreDataSources && !isExpression && (
-            <LinkButton
-              size="md"
-              variant="secondary"
-              icon="compass"
-              target="_blank"
-              href={createExploreLink(dsSettings, model)}
-            >
-              View in Explore
-            </LinkButton>
+            <WithReturnButton
+              component={
+                <LinkButton size="md" variant="secondary" icon="compass" href={createExploreLink(dsSettings, model)}>
+                  View in Explore
+                </LinkButton>
+              }
+            />
           )}
         </div>
       </div>
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.test.tsx
index 2787c4ae2ee..4d2c2392e84 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.test.tsx
@@ -167,3 +167,8 @@ const renderRuleViewer = async (rule: CombinedRule, identifier: RuleIdentifier)
 
   await waitFor(() => expect(ELEMENTS.loading.query()).not.toBeInTheDocument());
 };
+
+jest.mock('@grafana/runtime', () => ({
+  ...jest.requireActual('@grafana/runtime'),
+  useReturnToPrevious: jest.fn(),
+}));
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.tsx
index 55d956e7b97..29d4c0607c4 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2.tsx
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
+import { css } from '@emotion/css';
 import { isEmpty, truncate } from 'lodash';
 import React, { useState } from 'react';
 
 import { NavModelItem, UrlQueryValue } from '@grafana/data';
-import { Alert, Button, LinkButton, Stack, TabContent, Text, TextLink } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { Alert, LinkButton, Stack, TabContent, Text, TextLink, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { PageInfoItem } from 'app/core/components/Page/types';
 import { useQueryParams } from 'app/core/hooks/useQueryParams';
-import { CombinedRule, RuleIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
-import { PromAlertingRuleState } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+import { CombinedRule, RuleHealth, RuleIdentifier } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PromAlertingRuleState, PromRuleType } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
 
 import { defaultPageNav } from '../../../RuleViewer';
 import { Annotation } from '../../../utils/constants';
 import { makeDashboardLink, makePanelLink } from '../../../utils/misc';
-import { isAlertingRule, isFederatedRuleGroup, isGrafanaRulerRule } from '../../../utils/rules';
+import { isAlertingRule, isFederatedRuleGroup, isGrafanaRulerRule, isRecordingRule } from '../../../utils/rules';
 import { createUrl } from '../../../utils/url';
 import { AlertLabels } from '../../AlertLabels';
-import { AlertStateDot } from '../../AlertStateDot';
 import { AlertingPageWrapper } from '../../AlertingPageWrapper';
 import { ProvisionedResource, ProvisioningAlert } from '../../Provisioning';
+import { WithReturnButton } from '../../WithReturnButton';
 import { decodeGrafanaNamespace } from '../../expressions/util';
 import { RedirectToCloneRule } from '../../rules/CloneRule';
+import { FederatedRuleWarning } from '../FederatedRuleWarning';
 import { Details } from '../tabs/Details';
 import { History } from '../tabs/History';
 import { InstancesList } from '../tabs/Instances';
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ import { Routing } from '../tabs/Routing';
 import { useAlertRulePageActions } from './Actions';
 import { useDeleteModal } from './DeleteModal';
 import { useAlertRule } from './RuleContext';
+import { RecordingBadge, StateBadge } from './StateBadges';
 
 enum ActiveTab {
   Query = 'query',
@@ -52,51 +55,62 @@ const RuleViewer = () => {
     handleDelete: showDeleteModal,
   });
 
-  const promRule = rule.promRule;
+  const { annotations, promRule } = rule;
+  const hasError = isErrorHealth(rule.promRule?.health);
 
   const isAlertType = isAlertingRule(promRule);
 
   const isFederatedRule = isFederatedRuleGroup(rule.group);
   const isProvisioned = isGrafanaRulerRule(rule.rulerRule) && Boolean(rule.rulerRule.grafana_alert.provenance);
 
+  const summary = annotations[Annotation.summary];
+
   return (
     <AlertingPageWrapper
       pageNav={pageNav}
       navId="alert-list"
       isLoading={false}
-      renderTitle={(title) => {
-        return <Title name={title} state={isAlertType ? promRule.state : undefined} />;
-      }}
+      renderTitle={(title) => (
+        <Title
+          name={title}
+          state={isAlertType ? promRule.state : undefined}
+          health={rule.promRule?.health}
+          ruleType={rule.promRule?.type}
+        />
+      )}
       actions={actions}
       info={createMetadata(rule)}
-    >
-      <Stack direction="column" gap={2}>
-        {/* actions */}
-        <Stack direction="column" gap={2}>
+      subTitle={
+        <Stack direction="column">
+          {summary}
           {/* alerts and notifications and stuff */}
-          {isFederatedRule && (
-            <Alert severity="info" title="This rule is part of a federated rule group.">
-              <Stack direction="column">
-                Federated rule groups are currently an experimental feature.
-                <Button fill="text" icon="book">
-                  <a href="https://grafana.com/docs/metrics-enterprise/latest/tenant-management/tenant-federation/#cross-tenant-alerting-and-recording-rule-federation">
-                    Read documentation
-                  </a>
-                </Button>
-              </Stack>
+          {isFederatedRule && <FederatedRuleWarning />}
+          {/* indicator for rules in a provisioned group */}
+          {isProvisioned && (
+            <ProvisioningAlert resource={ProvisionedResource.AlertRule} bottomSpacing={0} topSpacing={2} />
+          )}
+          {/* error state */}
+          {hasError && (
+            <Alert title="Something went wrong when evaluating this alert rule" bottomSpacing={0} topSpacing={2}>
+              <pre style={{ marginBottom: 0 }}>
+                <code>{rule.promRule?.lastError ?? 'No error message'}</code>
+              </pre>
             </Alert>
           )}
-          {isProvisioned && <ProvisioningAlert resource={ProvisionedResource.AlertRule} />}
-          {/* tabs and tab content */}
-          <TabContent>
-            {activeTab === ActiveTab.Query && <QueryResults rule={rule} />}
-            {activeTab === ActiveTab.Instances && <InstancesList rule={rule} />}
-            {activeTab === ActiveTab.History && isGrafanaRulerRule(rule.rulerRule) && <History rule={rule.rulerRule} />}
-            {activeTab === ActiveTab.Routing && <Routing />}
-            {activeTab === ActiveTab.Details && <Details rule={rule} />}
-          </TabContent>
         </Stack>
+      }
+    >
+      <Stack direction="column" gap={2}>
+        {/* tabs and tab content */}
+        <TabContent>
+          {activeTab === ActiveTab.Query && <QueryResults rule={rule} />}
+          {activeTab === ActiveTab.Instances && <InstancesList rule={rule} />}
+          {activeTab === ActiveTab.History && isGrafanaRulerRule(rule.rulerRule) && <History rule={rule.rulerRule} />}
+          {activeTab === ActiveTab.Routing && <Routing />}
+          {activeTab === ActiveTab.Details && <Details rule={rule} />}
+        </TabContent>
       </Stack>
+
       {deleteModal}
       {duplicateRuleIdentifier && (
         <RedirectToCloneRule
@@ -118,8 +132,8 @@ const createMetadata = (rule: CombinedRule): PageInfoItem[] => {
   const dashboardUID = annotations[Annotation.dashboardUID];
   const panelID = annotations[Annotation.panelID];
 
-  const hasPanel = dashboardUID && panelID;
-  const hasDashboardWithoutPanel = dashboardUID && !panelID;
+  const hasDashboardAndPanel = dashboardUID && panelID;
+  const hasDashboard = dashboardUID;
   const hasLabels = !isEmpty(labels);
 
   const interval = group.interval;
@@ -136,22 +150,32 @@ const createMetadata = (rule: CombinedRule): PageInfoItem[] => {
     });
   }
 
-  if (hasPanel) {
+  if (hasDashboardAndPanel) {
     metadata.push({
       label: 'Dashboard and panel',
       value: (
-        <TextLink variant="bodySmall" href={makePanelLink(dashboardUID, panelID)} external>
-          View panel
-        </TextLink>
+        <WithReturnButton
+          title={rule.name}
+          component={
+            <TextLink variant="bodySmall" href={makePanelLink(dashboardUID, panelID)}>
+              View panel
+            </TextLink>
+          }
+        />
       ),
     });
-  } else if (hasDashboardWithoutPanel) {
+  } else if (hasDashboard) {
     metadata.push({
       label: 'Dashboard',
       value: (
-        <TextLink variant="bodySmall" href={makeDashboardLink(dashboardUID)} external>
-          View dashboard
-        </TextLink>
+        <WithReturnButton
+          title={rule.name}
+          component={
+            <TextLink title={rule.name} variant="bodySmall" href={makeDashboardLink(dashboardUID)}>
+              View dashboard
+            </TextLink>
+          }
+        />
       ),
     });
   }
@@ -184,53 +208,29 @@ interface TitleProps {
   name: string;
   // recording rules don't have a state
   state?: PromAlertingRuleState;
+  health?: RuleHealth;
+  ruleType?: PromRuleType;
 }
 
-export const Title = ({ name, state }: TitleProps) => (
-  <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 8, maxWidth: '100%' }}>
-    <LinkButton variant="secondary" icon="angle-left" href="/alerting/list" />
-    <Text element="h1" truncate>
-      {name}
-    </Text>
-    {/* recording rules won't have a state */}
-    {state && <StateBadge state={state} />}
-  </div>
-);
-
-interface StateBadgeProps {
-  state: PromAlertingRuleState;
-}
-
-// TODO move to separate component
-const StateBadge = ({ state }: StateBadgeProps) => {
-  let stateLabel: string;
-  let textColor: 'success' | 'error' | 'warning';
-
-  switch (state) {
-    case PromAlertingRuleState.Inactive:
-      textColor = 'success';
-      stateLabel = 'Normal';
-      break;
-    case PromAlertingRuleState.Firing:
-      textColor = 'error';
-      stateLabel = 'Firing';
-      break;
-    case PromAlertingRuleState.Pending:
-      textColor = 'warning';
-      stateLabel = 'Pending';
-      break;
-  }
+export const Title = ({ name, state, health, ruleType }: TitleProps) => {
+  const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
+  const isRecordingRule = ruleType === PromRuleType.Recording;
 
   return (
-    <Stack direction="row" gap={0.5}>
-      <AlertStateDot size="md" state={state} />
-      <Text variant="bodySmall" color={textColor}>
-        {stateLabel}
+    <div className={styles.title}>
+      <LinkButton variant="secondary" icon="angle-left" href="/alerting/list" />
+      <Text variant="h1" truncate>
+        {name}
       </Text>
-    </Stack>
+      {/* recording rules won't have a state */}
+      {state && <StateBadge state={state} health={health} />}
+      {isRecordingRule && <RecordingBadge health={health} />}
+    </div>
   );
 };
 
+export const isErrorHealth = (health?: RuleHealth) => health === 'error' || health === 'err';
+
 function useActiveTab(): [ActiveTab, (tab: ActiveTab) => void] {
   const [queryParams, setQueryParams] = useQueryParams();
   const tabFromQuery = queryParams['tab'];
@@ -262,6 +262,9 @@ function usePageNav(rule: CombinedRule) {
   const namespaceName = decodeGrafanaNamespace(rule.namespace);
   const groupName = rule.group.name;
 
+  const isGrafanaAlertRule = isGrafanaRulerRule(rule.rulerRule) && isAlertType;
+  const isRecordingRuleType = isRecordingRule(rule.promRule);
+
   const pageNav: NavModelItem = {
     ...defaultPageNav,
     text: rule.name,
@@ -281,6 +284,7 @@ function usePageNav(rule: CombinedRule) {
           setActiveTab(ActiveTab.Instances);
         },
         tabCounter: numberOfInstance,
+        hideFromTabs: isRecordingRuleType,
       },
       {
         text: 'History',
@@ -288,6 +292,8 @@ function usePageNav(rule: CombinedRule) {
         onClick: () => {
           setActiveTab(ActiveTab.History);
         },
+        // alert state history is only available for Grafana managed alert rules
+        hideFromTabs: !isGrafanaAlertRule,
       },
       {
         text: 'Details',
@@ -316,4 +322,13 @@ function usePageNav(rule: CombinedRule) {
   };
 }
 
+const getStyles = () => ({
+  title: css({
+    display: 'flex',
+    alignItems: 'center',
+    gap: 8,
+    minWidth: 0,
+  }),
+});
+
 export default RuleViewer;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/StateBadges.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/StateBadges.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..94ac7edb466
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/v2/StateBadges.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
+import { Stack, Text } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { RuleHealth } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
+import { PromAlertingRuleState } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-dto';
+
+import { AlertStateDot } from '../../AlertStateDot';
+
+import { isErrorHealth } from './RuleViewer.v2';
+
+interface RecordingBadgeProps {
+  health?: RuleHealth;
+}
+
+export const RecordingBadge = ({ health }: RecordingBadgeProps) => {
+  const hasError = isErrorHealth(health);
+
+  const color = hasError ? 'error' : 'success';
+  const text = hasError ? 'Recording error' : 'Recording';
+
+  return (
+    <Stack direction="row" gap={0.5}>
+      <AlertStateDot color={color} />
+      <Text variant="bodySmall" color={color}>
+        {text}
+      </Text>
+    </Stack>
+  );
+};
+
+// we're making a distinction here between the "state" of the rule and its "health".
+interface StateBadgeProps {
+  state: PromAlertingRuleState;
+  health?: RuleHealth;
+}
+
+export const StateBadge = ({ state, health }: StateBadgeProps) => {
+  let stateLabel: string;
+  let color: 'success' | 'error' | 'warning';
+
+  switch (state) {
+    case PromAlertingRuleState.Inactive:
+      color = 'success';
+      stateLabel = 'Normal';
+      break;
+    case PromAlertingRuleState.Firing:
+      color = 'error';
+      stateLabel = 'Firing';
+      break;
+    case PromAlertingRuleState.Pending:
+      color = 'warning';
+      stateLabel = 'Pending';
+      break;
+  }
+
+  // if the rule is in "error" health we don't really care about the state
+  if (isErrorHealth(health)) {
+    color = 'error';
+    stateLabel = 'Error';
+  }
+
+  if (health === 'nodata') {
+    color = 'warning';
+    stateLabel = 'No data';
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Stack direction="row" gap={0.5}>
+      <AlertStateDot color={color} />
+      <Text variant="bodySmall" color={color}>
+        {stateLabel}
+      </Text>
+    </Stack>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleDetailsMatchingInstances.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleDetailsMatchingInstances.tsx
index b2af9f91508..fcc1a0ac7fb 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleDetailsMatchingInstances.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleDetailsMatchingInstances.tsx
@@ -115,13 +115,11 @@ export function RuleDetailsMatchingInstances(props: Props): JSX.Element | null {
         <div className={cx(styles.flexRow, styles.spaceBetween)}>
           <div className={styles.flexRow}>
             <MatcherFilter
-              className={styles.rowChild}
               key={queryStringKey}
               defaultQueryString={queryString}
               onFilterChange={(value) => setQueryString(value)}
             />
             <AlertInstanceStateFilter
-              className={styles.rowChild}
               filterType={stateFilterType}
               stateFilter={alertState}
               onStateFilterChange={setAlertState}
@@ -164,13 +162,11 @@ const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
       width: 100%;
       flex-wrap: wrap;
       margin-bottom: ${theme.spacing(1)};
+      gap: ${theme.spacing(1)};
     `,
     spaceBetween: css`
       justify-content: space-between;
     `,
-    rowChild: css`
-      margin-right: ${theme.spacing(1)};
-    `,
     footerRow: css`
       display: flex;
       flex-direction: column;
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleHealth.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleHealth.tsx
index 8016e5f255c..1b0a2625b5f 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleHealth.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/RuleHealth.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
 import { Icon, Tooltip, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { Rule } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
+import { isErrorHealth } from '../rule-viewer/v2/RuleViewer.v2';
+
 interface Prom {
   rule: Rule;
 }
@@ -12,7 +14,7 @@ interface Prom {
 export const RuleHealth = ({ rule }: Prom) => {
   const style = useStyles2(getStyle);
 
-  if (rule.health === 'err' || rule.health === 'error') {
+  if (isErrorHealth(rule.health)) {
     return (
       <Tooltip theme="error" content={rule.lastError || 'No error message provided.'}>
         <div className={style.warn}>
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/misc.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/misc.ts
index c6e4739353d..f8deef67b00 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/misc.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/utils/misc.ts
@@ -221,3 +221,11 @@ export function isLocalDevEnv() {
   const buildInfo = config.buildInfo;
   return buildInfo.env === 'development';
 }
+
+export function isErrorLike(error: unknown): error is Error {
+  return 'message' in (error as Error);
+}
+
+export function stringifyErrorLike(error: unknown): string {
+  return isErrorLike(error) ? error.message : String(error);
+}
diff --git a/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts b/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts
index 1ad18e753bf..e641ab27848 100644
--- a/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts
+++ b/public/app/types/unified-alerting.ts
@@ -26,8 +26,11 @@ export function hasAlertState(alert: Alert, state: PromAlertingRuleState | Grafa
   return mapStateWithReasonToBaseState(alert.state) === state;
 }
 
+// Prometheus API uses "err" but grafana API uses "error" *sigh*
+export type RuleHealth = 'nodata' | 'error' | 'err' | string;
+
 interface RuleBase {
-  health: string;
+  health: RuleHealth;
   name: string;
   query: string;
   lastEvaluation?: string;