Grafana 9.1 introduces file provisioning for Grafana Alerting, allowing users to configure their alerting stack using files on disk, similar to how data sources or dashboards are managed. This new feature enables flexible organization of alerting data, supporting various layouts like team-based or object-type files. Upon start-up, Grafana reads files in the alerting subdirectory, updating, inserting, or deleting objects as necessary, with changes only possible through file modifications and a subsequent restart or API call. In Kubernetes environments, file provisioning can be utilized through config maps, removing the need for a persistent database and ensuring resources are retained after restarts. Additionally, provisioned objects in the Grafana UI are marked as immutable, preventing manual edits. This feature enhances the Grafana Alerting experience, which began with Grafana 9.0, and is part of Grafana Cloud's broader suite of tools for monitoring metrics, logs, and dashboards.