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Alerting: Improve Alertmanager data source docs (#63611)

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Improve Alertmanager data source docs
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      docs/sources/datasources/alertmanager/_index.md

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@ -26,6 +26,27 @@ The data source supports [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/) and [Grafana Mimir
You can specify the implementation in the data source's Settings page. You can specify the implementation in the data source's Settings page.
When using Prometheus, contact points and notification policies are read-only in the Grafana Alerting UI, because it doesn't support updates to the configuration using HTTP API. When using Prometheus, contact points and notification policies are read-only in the Grafana Alerting UI, because it doesn't support updates to the configuration using HTTP API.
## Configure the data source
**To access the data source configuration page:**
1. Select the **Data sources** section from the **Administration** menu
2. Select the **Alertmanager** data source
Set the data source's basic configuration options carefully:
| Name | Description |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name** | Sets the name you use to refer to the data source |
| **Default** | Sets whether the data source is pre-selected for new panels and queries |
| **Alertmanager** | |
| **Implementation** | Alertmanager implementation. **Mimir**, **Cortex,** and **Prometheus** are supported |
| **Receive Grafana Alerts** | When enabled the Alertmanager receives alert instances from Grafana-managed alert rules. **Important:** It works only if Grafana alerting is configured to send its alert instances to external Alertmanagers |
| **HTTP** | |
| **URL** | Sets the HTTP protocol, IP, and port of your Alertmanager instance, such as `https://alertmanager.example.org:9093` |
| **Access** | Only **Server** access mode is functional |
| | |
## Provision the Alertmanager data source ## Provision the Alertmanager data source
You can provision Alertmanager data sources by updating Grafana's configuration files. You can provision Alertmanager data sources by updating Grafana's configuration files.
@ -42,8 +63,10 @@ datasources:
url: http://localhost:9093 url: http://localhost:9093
access: proxy access: proxy
jsonData: jsonData:
# Options for implementation include prometheus and mimir # Valid options for implementation include mimir, cortex and prometheus
implementation: prometheus implementation: prometheus
# Whether or not Grafana should send alert instances to this Alertmanager
handleGrafanaManagedAlerts: false
# optionally # optionally
basicAuth: true basicAuth: true
basicAuthUser: my_user basicAuthUser: my_user

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