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

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Set up	[unified-alerting/set-up/]	[{products [oss]}]	How to configure alerting features and integrations	Set up Alerting	107

Set up Alerting

Set up or upgrade your implementation of Grafana Alerting.

Note:

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

To set up Grafana Alerting for Cloud, see ({{< relref "./_index.md" >}})

Before you begin

• Configure your [data sources]({{< relref "../../administration/data-source-management" >}})
• Check which data sources are compatible with and supported by [Grafana Alerting]({{< relref "../fundamentals/data-source-alerting" >}})

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

2. Configure contact points

   • Check the default contact point and update the email address

   • [Optional] Add new contact points and integrations

3. Configure notification policies

   • Check the default notification policy

   • [Optional] Add additional nested policies

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

4. [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]({{< relref "../set-up/provision-alerting-resources/file-provisioning" >}})
• [Provision alert rules using Terraform]({{< relref "../set-up/provision-alerting-resources/terraform-provisioning" >}})
• [Add an external Alertmanager]({{< relref "../set-up/configure-alertmanager" >}})
• [Configure high availability]({{< relref "../set-up/configure-high-availability" >}})