@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ These three individual concepts are the minimum necessities to successfully crea
We will also touch on various other concepts such as [silences]({{< relref "silences/" >}}) and [mute timings]({{< relref "notifications/mute-timings/" >}}) to more granularly manage alert notifications, [role-based access control]({{< relref "../enterprise/access-control/" >}}) to limit access and manage permissions and additional advanced topics such as [external alertmanagers]({{< relref "fundamentals/alertmanager/#add-a-new-external-alertmanager" >}}) and [high availability]({{< relref "high-availability/" >}}).
Watch this video to learn more about creating alerts: {{<vimeo720001934>}}
Grafana allows you to create alerting rules that query one or more data sources, reduce or transform the results and compare them to each other or to fix thresholds. When these are executed, Grafana sends notifications to the contact point. For information on Grafana Alerting, see [About Grafana Alerting]({{< relref "../about-alerting/" >}}) which explains the various components of Grafana Alerting. We also recommend that you familiarize yourself with some of the [fundamental concepts]({{< relref "../fundamentals/" >}}) of Grafana Alerting.
Watch this video to learn more about creating alerts: {{<vimeo720001934>}}
## Add Grafana managed rule
1. In the Grafana menu, click the **Alerting** (bell) icon to open the Alerting page listing existing alerts.
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- **Grafana Mimir** - use the [legacy `/api/prom` prefix](https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/operators-guide/reference-http-api/#path-prefixes), not `/prometheus`. The Prometheus data source supports both Grafana Mimir and Prometheus, and Grafana expects that both the [Query API](https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/operators-guide/reference-http-api/#querier--query-frontend) and [Ruler API](https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/operators-guide/reference-http-api/#ruler) are under the same URL. You cannot provide a separate URL for the Ruler API.
Watch this video to learn more about how to create a Mimir managed alert rule: {{<vimeo720001865>}}
> **Note:** If you do not want to manage alerting rules for a particular Loki or Prometheus data source, go to its settings and clear the **Manage alerts via Alerting UI** checkbox.
## Add a Grafana Mimir or Loki managed alerting rule