Company
Date Published
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Jean-Philippe Quéméner and George Robinson
Word count
874
Language
English
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None

Summary

Released with Grafana 9.0, the new Grafana Alerting system is the default alerting platform across all Grafana products, featuring significant improvements, enhanced documentation, and video tutorials to ease the process of creating alerts. Users can establish three types of alert rules: Grafana-managed alerts, which handle complex conditions across multiple data sources; Mimir- or Loki-managed alerts, which use PromQL or LogQL queries executed independently from Grafana; and recording rules for precomputing expensive queries. A video tutorial demonstrates setting up a Grafana-managed alert for detecting HTTP server errors, with options for classic conditions or reduce and math expressions, enabling complex alert conditions. Grafana-managed alerts offer customizable evaluation intervals and durations, as well as features for organizing alerts into folders and groups, adding annotations, and providing additional context such as summaries and runbooks. Mimir-managed alerts, useful for high latency or costly queries, allow users to group alert rules with namespaces and add custom labels for routing. The new alerting features are default in Grafana 9, with a rollback option to legacy alerting, which will be phased out in Grafana 10. More information can be found in Grafana's documentation, GrafanaCONline 2022 sessions, and through their cloud platform offerings.