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Learn about labels and label matchers in alerting
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Labels in Grafana Alerting 117

Labels in Grafana Alerting

This topic explains why labels are a fundamental component of alerting.

  • The complete set of labels for an alert is what uniquely identifies an alert within Grafana alerts.
  • The Alertmanager uses labels to match alerts for silences and alert groups in notification policies.
  • The alerting UI shows labels for every alert instance generated during evaluation of that rule.
  • Contact points can access labels to dynamically generate notifications that contain information specific to the alert that is resulting in a notification.
  • You can add labels to an [alerting rule]({{< relref "../../alerting-rules/" >}}). Labels are manually configurable, use template functions, and can reference other labels. Labels added to an alerting rule take precedence in the event of a collision between labels (except in the case of Grafana reserved labels).

{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/alerting/unified/rule-edit-details-8-0.png" max-width="550px" caption="Alert details" >}}

External Alertmanager Compatibility

Grafana's built-in Alertmanager supports both Unicode label keys and values. If you are using an external Prometheus Alertmanager, label keys must be compatible with their data model. This means that label keys must only contain ASCII letters, numbers, as well as underscores and match the regex [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*. Any invalid characters will be removed or replaced by the Grafana alerting engine before being sent to the external Alertmanager according to the following rules:

  • Whitespace will be removed.
  • ASCII characters will be replaced with _.
  • All other characters will be replaced with their lower-case hex representation. If this is the first character it will be prefixed with _.

Example: A label key/value pair Alert! 🔔="🔥" will become Alert_0x1f514="🔥".

Note If multiple label keys are sanitized to the same value, the duplicates will have a short hash of the original label appended as a suffix.

Grafana reserved labels

Note: Labels prefixed with grafana_ are reserved by Grafana for special use. If a manually configured label is added beginning with grafana_ it may be overwritten in case of collision. To stop the Grafana Alerting engine from adding a reserved label, you can disable it via the disabled_labels option in [unified_alerting.reserved_labels]({{< relref "../../../setup-grafana/configure-grafana/#unified_alertingreserved_labels" >}}) configuration.

Grafana reserved labels can be used in the same way as manually configured labels. The current list of available reserved labels are:

Label Description
grafana_folder Title of the folder containing the alert.