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# Metrics from the alert engine

> Alerting is only available in Grafana v4.0 and above.

The alert engine publishes some internal metrics about itself. You can read more about how Grafana publishes [internal metrics](/installation/configuration/#metrics).

Description | Type | Metric name
---------- | ----------- | ----------
Total number of alerts | counter | `alerting.active_alerts`
Alert execution result | counter | `alerting.result`
Notifications sent counter | counter | `alerting.notifications_sent`
Alert execution timer | timer | `alerting.execution_time`