grafana/docs/sources/alerting/set-up/_index.md

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description: Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting
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menuTitle: Set up
title: Set up Alerting
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# Set up Alerting

Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting.

**Note:**

These are set-up instructions for Grafana Alerting Open Source.

## Before you begin

- Configure your [data sources][data-source-management]
- Check which data sources are compatible with and supported by [Grafana Alerting][data-source-alerting]

Watch this short video to get started, or follow the [written tutorial](http://grafana.com/tutorials/alerting-get-started/).

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## Set up Alerting

To set up Alerting, you need to:

1. Configure alert rules

   - Create Grafana-managed or Mimir/Loki-managed alert rules and recording rules

1. Configure contact points

   - Check the default contact point and update the email address

   - [Optional] Add new contact points and integrations

1. Configure notification policies

   - Check the default notification policy

   - [Optional] Add additional nested policies

   - [Optional] Add labels and label matchers to control alert routing

1. [Optional] Integrate with [Grafana OnCall](/docs/oncall/latest/integrations/grafana-alerting)

## Advanced set up options

Grafana Alerting supports many additional configuration options, from configuring external Alertmanagers to routing Grafana-managed alerts outside of Grafana, to defining your alerting setup as code.

The following topics provide you with advanced configuration options for Grafana Alerting.

- [Provision alert rules using file provisioning][file-provisioning]
- [Provision alert rules using Terraform][terraform-provisioning]
- [Add an external Alertmanager][configure-alertmanager]
- [Configure high availability][configure-high-availability]

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[data-source-management]: "/docs/ -> /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management"

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