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Overview of Grafana 8 alerting

Grafana 8.0 has new and improved alerting that centralizes alerting information in a single, searchable view. It is an [opt-in]({{< relref "./opt-in.md" >}}) feature. We encourage you to create issues in the Grafana GitHub repository for bugs found while testing Grafana 8 alerting. See also, [What's New with Grafana 8 alerting]({{< relref "./difference-old-new.md" >}}).

When Grafana 8 alerting is enabled, you can:

• [Create a Grafana managed alerting rules]({{< relref "alerting-rules/create-grafana-managed-rule.md" >}})
• [Create a Cortex or Loki managed alerting rules]({{< relref "alerting-rules/create-cortex-loki-managed-rule.md" >}})
• [View existing alerting rules and manage their current state]({{< relref "alerting-rules/rule-list.md" >}})
• [View the state and health of alerting rules]({{< relref "./fundamentals/state-and-health.md" >}})
• [Add or edit an alert contact point]({{< relref "./contact-points.md" >}})
• [Add or edit notification policies]({{< relref "./notification-policies.md" >}})
• [Add or edit silences]({{< relref "./silences.md" >}})

Before you begin using Grafana 8 alerting, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with some [basic concepts]({{< relref "./fundamentals/_index.md" >}}) of Grafana 8 alerting.

Limitations

• The Grafana 8 alerting system can retrieve rules from all available Prometheus, Loki, and Alertmanager data sources. It might not be able to fetch rules from other supported data sources.
• Our aim is to support the latest two minor versions of both Prometheus and Alertmanager, older versions might work without any guarantees. As an example, if the current Prometheus version is 2.31.1, we would support >= 2.29.0.