Alerting docs: adds history view docs (#91033)

* Alerting docs: adds history view docs

* ran prettier

docs/sources/alerting/manage-notifications/view-state-health.md

@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@ refs:
       destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health/#alert-instance-state
     - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
       destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health/#alert-instance-state
-  alert-rule-health:
-    - pattern: /docs/grafana/
-      destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health/#alert-rule-health
-    - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
-      destination: /docs/grafana-cloud/alerting-and-irm/alerting/fundamentals/alert-rule-evaluation/state-and-health/#alert-rule-health
 ---
 
 # View alert state and history
@@ -54,9 +49,42 @@ To view the state and health of your alert rules:
 1. Click **Alert rules** to view the list of existing alerts.
 1. Click an alert rule to view its state, health, and state history.
 
-## View state history
+## View state history using the History page
 
-Use the State history view to get insight into how your alert instances behave over time. View information on when a state change occurred, what the previous state was, the current state, any other alert instances that changed their state at the same time as well as what the query value was that triggered the change.
+View a history of all alert events generated by your Grafana-managed alert rules from one centralized page. This helps you see patterns in your alerts over time, observe trends, make predictions, and even debug alerts that might be firing too often.
+
+An alert event is displayed each time an alert instance changes its state over a period of time. All alert events are displayed regardless of whether silences or mute timings are set, so you’ll see a complete set of your data history even if you’re not necessarily being notified.
+
+{{% admonition type="note" %}}
+For Grafana Enterprise and OSS users:
+
+To try out the new alert history page, enable the `alertingCentralAlertHistory` feature toggle and configure [Loki annotations](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/alerting/set-up/configure-alert-state-history/).
+
+Users can only see the history and transitions of alert rules they have access to (RBAC).
+{{% /admonition %}}
+
+To access the History view, complete the following steps.
+
+1. Navigate to **Alerts & IRM** -> **Alerting** -> History.
+
+   An Alert Events chart shows your alert activity within a specific time frame. Each alert event represents an alert instance that changed its state at a particular point in time. The history of the data is displayed over a period of time.
+
+1. Filter by labels either by entering a label or clicking a label of an instance in the list of events.
+1. Filter by current state and previous state by selecting a state from the drop-down or by clicking the states from the list of events.
+   Zoom in by dragging on the chart or use the time picker.
+
+   {{% admonition type="note" %}}
+   If you exceed the 5000 alerts limit, you may see data missing from the chart. To see complete results, narrow the time frame.
+   {{% /admonition %}}
+
+1. Under the chart, there is a list of events. Each event represents a state change on an alert instance. Expand a row to see the number of transitions for the alert instance, a state graph, and the value in the transition.
+1. Click the alert rule name to jump to the History tab in the Alert Rule view.
+
+## View state history using the State history view
+
+Use the State history view to get insight into how your individual alert instances behave over time.
+
+View information on when a state change occurred, what the previous state was, the current state, any other alert instances that changed their state at the same time as well as what the query value was that triggered the change.
 
 {{% admonition type="note" %}}
 Open source users must [configure alert state history](/docs/grafana/latest/alerting/set-up/configure-alert-state-history/) in order to be able to access the view.